03 SEPTEMBER

301 San Marino, one of the smallest nations in the world and the world's oldest republic still in existence, founded by Saint Marinus

1783 Treaty of Paris signed in Paris ends the American Revolutionary War between Great Britain and United States of America

1900 With a proclamation by General Lord Roberts, Britain annexes the Boer Republic of South Africa

1939 World War II: Britain declares war on Germany after invasion of Poland. France follows 6 hours later quickly joined by Australia, New Zealand, South Africa & Canada

1950 1st Formula One WDC: Giuseppe "Nino" Farina wins by three points

1988 Estimated by this date 50,000 Kurdish civilians and soldiers killed by Iraq, many using chemical weapons, in aftermath of Iran-Iraq War

Famous Birthday's

Carl David Anderson
(1905 - 1991)

Whitey Bulger
88th Birthday

Charlie Sheen
52nd Birthday

Famous Deaths

Oliver Cromwell
(1599 - 1658)

Ho Chi Minh
(1890 - 1969)

Vince Lombardi
(1913 - 1970)

Famous Weddings

1921 American author and journalist Ernest Hemingway (22) marries 1st wife Hadley Richardson (29)

1923 Cultural anthropologist Margaret Mead (21) weds field archaeologist Luther Cressman (25)

1937 Author Muriel Spark (19) weds teacher Sidney Oswald Spark in Salisbury, Southern Rhodesia

1953 Explorer Edmund Hillary (34) weds Louise Mary Rose

1957 World Heavyweight champion Sonny Liston (25) weds Geraldine Clark in St. Louis, Missouri

Famous Divorces

2010 Pop singer Cheryl Cole (27) divorces England soccer player Ashley Cole (29) due to unreasonable behavior after 3 and a half years of marriage