What Happened – September 3

“My free life began on the third of September, 1838.”

It was on this day in 1838 that Frederick Douglass boarded a train in Baltimore, starting his escape to freedom. The 18 year old slave had been hired out by his master to work in the shipyards as a caulker. Douglass managed to acquire the papers of a freeman as well as the clothes of a sailor, thus enabling him to safely travel north. He would go on to become a tireless activist for ending slavery, as well as women’s suffrage and other social causes.

 

The earliest event that Wiki says happened on this day is “36 BC – In the Battle of Naulochus, Marcus Vipsanius Agrippa, admiral of Octavian, defeats Sextus Pompeius, son of Pompey, thus ending Pompeian resistance to the Second Triumvirate” and the most recent is “2004 – Beslan school hostage crisis – day 3: the Beslan hostage crisis ends with the deaths of over 300 people, more than half of which are children.

 

A few other things that also happened on this day are:
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1783 – Great Britain and the United States sign the Treaty of Paris, ending the Revolutionary War.

1976 – Viking 2 lands on Mars and starts sending color photographs back to Earth.

1995 – Pierre Omidyar puts an online auction service on his personal webpage. The first item that is sold is a broken laser pointer; he will later name his company “eBay”.

 

Happy birthday to Charlie Sheen, Steve Schirripa, Al Jardine, and Mort Walker.

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1 Response to What Happened – September 3

  1. Mike says:

    Hah, I had no idea eBay was started on a broken laser pointer. Glad to see the quality of goods has improved significantly since then.

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