Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/September 3

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 * 863 – Arab–Byzantine wars: The Byzantine Empire decisively defeated the Emirate of Melitene at the Battle of Lalakaon, beginning the era of Byzantine ascendancy.
 * 1650 – Under Oliver Cromwell, the English New Model Army ambushed a poorly prepared Scottish force at the Battle of Dunbar, the first battle of the Third English Civil War.
 * 1651 – English Parliamentarian forces under Oliver Cromwell (pictured) won the Battle of Worcester, the final battle of the English Civil War.
 * 1777 – American Revolutionary War: The British Army and their Hessian allies defeated an American militia at the Battle of Cooch's Bridge.
 * 1878 – The passenger steamship SS Princess Alice sank in the River Thames after colliding (pictured) with the collier SS Bywell Castle (1869), killing more than 600 people.
 * 1935 – On the Bonneville Salt Flats in Utah, British racing motorist Malcolm Campbell became the first person to drive an automobile over 300 mph (480 km/h).
 * 1936 – The Guild of Carillonneurs in North America was founded in Parliament Hill, Ottawa, Canada.
 * 1942 – The Holocaust: In possibly the first Jewish ghetto uprising, residents of the Łachwa Ghetto in occupied Poland, informed of the upcoming "liquidation" of the ghetto, unsuccessfully fought against their Nazi captors.
 * 1991 – A fire killed 25 people locked inside a burning chicken processing plant in Hamlet, North Carolina, U.S.
 * 2001 – The Troubles: Ulster loyalists resumed a picket outside a Catholic girls' primary school in the Protestant portion of Ardoyne, in Belfast, Northern Ireland.
 * Born/died: | Edward Coke |d|1634| Archibald Bower |d|1766| Prudence Crandall |b|1803| Astri Aasen |b|1875| Corry Tendeloo |b|1897| Macfarlane Burnet |b|1899| Percy Chapman |b|1900| Tereska Torrès |b|1920| Gaston Thorn |b|1928| Vince Lombardi |d|1970| Scott Carson |b|1985|Pauline Kael |d|2001