Daily Calendar for Wednesday, September 3, 2025

Died

  • Oliver Cromwell (military leader) –
  • John McLoughlin (Father of Oregonβ€β€œ) –
  • e. e. cummings (poet) –
  • Frank Capra (director) –
  • W. Clement Stone (parlayed $100 into a $2 billion insurance empire) –
  • William H. Rehnquist (Chief Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court) –
  • Michael Clarke Duncan (actor) –

Born

  • Sarah Orne Jewett (author) –
  • Ferdinand Porsche (auto manufacturer) –
  • Alan Ladd (actor) –
  • Robert Truax (Rocket Scientist) –
  • Mort Walker (cartoonist) –
  • Eileen Brennan (actress) –
  • Charlie Sheen (actor) –
  • Dominic West (actor) –
  • Shaun White (snowboarder and skateboarder) –

Events

  • Treaty of Paris signed between the U.S. and Great Britain–
  • New York Sun became the first daily penny press” newspaper”–
  • Abolitionist Frederick Douglass escaped slavery–
  • First classes at U.S. Naval War College began–
  • First professional football game played–
  • World record set by auto averaging 301.13 mph for 1 mile, Bonneville Salt Flats, Utah–
  • Search for Tomorrow first aired on television–
  • Viking 2 lander touched down on Mars at Utopia Planitia–
  • 19-inning baseball game began at Fenway Park in Boston–
  • 47-lb. flathead catfish caught, Ohio River, Pennsylvania–

Weather

  • According to the Royalists, the severe storm that struck the British Isles on this day in 1658 - also the day Oliver Cromwell died - was simple proof that the Devil had come for his soul.–
  • A hurricane caused a 13-foot storm surge in New York City–
  • Denver, Colorado, got 4.2 inches of snow–
  • A hailstone measuring 17.5 inches in circumference and weighing 1.671 pounds was picked up and photographed in Coffeyville, Kansas–
  • 89 degrees F, Stampede Pass, Washington–

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