This day in History - September 3

414 Historic Events for September 3
1826 Event USS Vincennes leaves NY to become 1st warship to circumnavigate globe
1831 Birth ? Gist, Brig General (Confederate Army), died in 1864
1832 Event Rebellious slaves set fire to Paramaribo Suriname
1833 Event NY Sun begins publishing (1st daily newspaper)
1835 Birth William Gaston Lewis, Brig General (Confederate Army), died in 1901
1838 Event Frederick Douglass escapes from slavery disguised as a sailor
1840 Birth Jacob Fabricius, composer
1843 Death Cornelis PJ Elout, military/pres of West Sumatra, dies at 47
1849 Event Calif State Constitutional Convention convenes in Monterey
1849 Death Earnest Freiherr von Feuchtersleben, Austria writer/physician, dies
1849 Birth Sarah Orne Jewett, Maine, author (Country of the Pointed Firs)
1852 Event Anti Jewish riots break out in Stockholm
1856 Birth Louis Henri Sullivan, Boston Mass, father of modern US architecture
1857 Death M Heinrich C Lichtenstein, German zoologist/explorer, dies at 77
1859 Birth AAJ Jean JaurŠs, French socialist (L'Humanit‚, Les Preuves)
1860 Birth Edward Albert Filene, merchant, established US credit union movement
1861 Birth Ursmer BerliŠre, Belgian historian (Monastican Belgium)
1861 Event Confederate forces enter Kentucky, thus ending its neutrality
1863 Birth Hans Aanrud, Norse author (Sílve Solfeng)
1864 Birth Hale Ascher VanderCook, composer
1864 Event US, British, French and Dutch naval officer sails Staits of Simonoseki
1864 Event Battle of Berryville, VA
1865 Event Army commander in SC orders Freedmen's Bureau to stop seizing land
1865 Birth Wilhelm Bousset, German theologist/historian
1866 Birth Alain Locke, famous African