This day in History - September 3

414 Historic Events for September 3
1900 Event British annex Natal (South Africa)
1901 Birth Eduard A van Beinum, Dutch musician/conductor
1901 Event Boer General Smuts enters Kiba Drift in Cape Colony
1902 Event Start of Sherlock Holmes "Adventure of Illustrious Client"
1902 Birth Mantan Moreland, Monroe LA, comedian (Charlie Chan, Spirit of Youth)
1902 Event Pittsburgh Pirates, win earliest pennent (full season)
1903 Birth Willem Kooiman, Dutch theologist/church historian
1903 Event Resolute beats Shamrock III (England) in 13th America's Cup
1904 Event St Louis Olympics closes
1905 Birth Carl David Anderson, NYC, physicist (1936 Nobel Prize for physics)
1905 Birth Robert Ruthenfranz, composer
1906 Event Phila Giants win Negro Championship Cup in Phila before 10,000 fans
1906 Event Yanks win 2nd game on a forfeit over A's; 2nd forfeit win
1907 Birth Andrew Brewin, Canada, lawyer/cofound New Democratic Party
1907 Birth Loren Eiseley, professor of Anthropology (Animal Secrets)
1908 Event James Barries "What Every Woman Knows," premieres in London
1908 Death Cornelis Pijnacker Hordijk, gov-gen (Dutch East-Indies), dies
1910 Birth Dorothy Maynor, Norfolk Va, soprano/founder (Harlem School of Arts)
1911 Event 31st US Mens Tennis: Wm A Larned beats Maurice E McLoughlin (64 64 62)
1912 Event World's 1st cannery opens in England to supply food to the navy
1912 Event Arnold Schoenberg's "Funf Orchesterstucke," premieres
1913 Birth Alan Ladd, Hot Springs AR, actor (Shane, Carpetbaggers)
1914 Birth Kitty Carlisle Hart, New Orleans La, actress (Animal Crackers)
1914 Death Alb‚ric Magnard, French composer, killed in action at 49
1914 Death Lucien-Denis-Gabriel-Alberic Magnard, composer, dies at 49