Friday, September 3, 2010

September 3

Track Year Event Artist Song Album
1. 301 San Marino, one of the smallest nations in the world and the world's oldest republic still in existence, is founded by Saint Marinus. Interpol A Time to Be So Small Precipitate EP
2. 590 Consecration of Pope Gregory the Great Grissle Pull the Pope's Pants Down Total Fury / Grissle Split
3. 1783  American Revolutionary War: The war ends with the signing of the Treaty of Paris by the United States and the Kingdom of Great Britain. Beat Happening Revolution Come and Gone Dreamy
4. 1803 English scientist John Dalton begins using symbols to represent the atoms of different elements. El Guapo Symbol-Object The Phenonomen of Renewal
5. 1838  Dressed in a sailor's uniform and carrying identification papers provided by a Free Black seaman, future abolitionist Frederick Douglass boards a train in Marylandon his way to freedom from slavery. Lou Reed I'm So Free Transformer
6. 1935 Sir Malcolm Campbell reaches speed of 304.331 miles per hour on the Bonneville Salt Flats in Utah, becoming the first person to drive an automobile over 300 mph Braid Please Drive Faster Movie Music Vol. 1
7. 1954 The German U-Boat U-505 begins its move from a specially constructed dock to its final site at Chicago's Museum of Science and Industry. The Starlight Mints Submarine #3 The Dream that Stuff Was Made Of

(Historical facts about September 3 are from Wikipedia)

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