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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