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This is a list of selected September 3 anniversaries that appear in the "On this day" section of the Main Page. To suggest a new item, in most cases, you can be bold and edit this page. Please read the selected anniversaries guidelines before making your edit. However, if your addition might be controversial or on a day that is or will soon be on the Main Page, please post your suggestion on the talk page instead.

Please note that the events listed on the Main Page are chosen based more on relative article quality and to maintain a mix of topics, not based solely on how important or significant their subjects are. Only four to five events are posted at a time and thus not everything that is "most important and significant" can be listed. In addition, an event is generally not posted this year if it is also the subject of the scheduled featured article or picture of the day.

To report an error when this appears on the Main Page, see Main Page errors. Please remember that this list defers to the supporting articles, so it is best to achieve consensus and make any necessary changes there first.

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Blurb Reason
Flag Day in Australia; unreferenced section
; Armed Forces Day in Taiwan refimprove
301San Marino, one of the smallest nations in the world and the world's oldest republic still in existence, was founded by Saint Marinus. refimprove section
590Gregory I, the first pope from a monastic background, began his papacy. Lots of cn
1189Richard the Lionheart was crowned King of England in Westminster. lots of CN tags (13)
1260 – The Mongols suffered their first decisive defeat at the hands of Egyptian Mamluks in the Battle of Ain Jalut in Palestine. refimprove section, original research
1783 – The Peace of Paris formally ended the states of war between United States, France, Spain and Great Britain. refimprove section
1838Frederick Douglass escaped from slavery, and went on to become famous as an abolitionist. date not cited, refimprove section
1918 – The Bolshevik government of Russia published the first official announcement of the Red Terror, a period of repression against political opponents. unreliable sources
1925 – The USS Shenandoah, the U.S. Navy's first rigid airship, was torn apart in a squall line over Ohio. refimprove section
1941The Holocaust: SS-Hauptsturmführer Karl Fritzsch first used the pesticide Zyklon B to execute Soviet POWs en masse at Auschwitz; eventually it was used to kill about 1.2 million people. date not in article; also the article doesn't say they were Soviet POWs, and gives a 1.1m figure not 1.2m
1950Giuseppe Farina won the Italian Grand Prix, becoming the first Formula One world champion. results section contains a lot of unreferenced bits
1967Dagen H: All non-essential traffic was banned from the roads in Sweden while drivers switched from the left-hand side of the road to the right-hand side. refimprove
1976 – The NASA Viking 2 spacecraft landed at Utopia Planitia on Mars. unreferenced section
2004 – Russian security forces stormed a school in Beslan, North Ossetia, ending a three-day hostage crisis in which 334 of more than 1,100 hostages were killed. WP:WTA persistent use of 'terrorist'
Frank Capra |d|1991| unreferenced section

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September 3

Royal Exhibition Building, Melbourne
Royal Exhibition Building, Melbourne
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