OnThisDay: September 3rd
1783 - Treaty of Paris signed (ending the US Revolutionary War)
1833 - New York Sun begins publishing (America's first daily newspaper)
1895 - First professional football game played (Latrobe, PA.)
1935 - First automobile to exceed 300 mph - Sir Malcolm Campbell (301.337 mph)
1951 - TV soap opera "Search for Tomorrow" debuts on CBS network
1971 - Watergate team breaks into Daniel Ellsberg's doctor's office
1978 - Pope John Paul I officially installed as 264th supreme pontiff

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