Today is Monday, September 3, the 246th day of 2018. There are 119 days left in the year.
1783 — Treaty of Paris signed
1852 — Anti-Jewish riots break out in Stockholm
1861 — Confederate forces enter Kentucky, thus ending its neutrality
1865 — Army commander in SC orders Freedmen’s Bureau to stop seizing land
1891 — Cottonpickers organize union & stage strike in Texas
1900 — British annex Natal (South Africa)
1902 — Start of Sherlock Holmes "The Adventure of the Illustrious Client"
1912 — World’s first cannery opens in England to supply food to the navy
1914 — Cardinal Giacome della Chiesa becomes Pope Benedict XV