📜 This Day in History

September 3

• 36 BCThe Sicilian revolt against the Second Triumvirate of the Roman Republic ended when the fleet of Sextus Pompey, the rebel leader, was defeated at the Battle of Naulochus.
• 1650Under 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.
• 1901At the Royal Exhibition Building in Melbourne, the flag of Australia flew for the first time.
• 1941The mass expulsion of Soviet Germans from the Volga German ASSR began.
• 1991A fire killed 25 people locked inside a burning chicken processing plant in Hamlet, North Carolina, U.S.
• 2017North Korea conducted its sixth and most powerful nuclear test at Punggye-ri, causing a magnitude-6.3 earthquake.

Born on this day

• 1905Carl David Anderson, American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1991)
• 1936Zine El Abidine Ben Ali, Tunisian soldier and politician, 2nd President of Tunisia (died 2019)
• 1947Mario Draghi, Italian banker and economist
• 1965Charlie Sheen, American actor and producer