Some more for Sept. 3


1783 - The Paris Peace Treaty was signed between the United States and Great Britain, officially ending the American Revolutionary War for independence.

1895 - In Latrobe, Pennsylvania, the first professional football game was played. With the score 12-0, the Latrobe YMCA defeated the Jeannette Athletic Club. Decades later, Latrobe became the home for the Pittsburgh Steelers' training camp.

1939 - British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain, in a radio broadcast, announced that Britain and France had declared war on Germany.

1954 - After 21 years and 2,956 episodes, "The Lone Ranger" was heard for the final time on radio.

1962 - American poet and painter e e cummings died at age 67 in North Conway, New Hampshire.
1976 - The U.S. spacecraft Viking 2 landed on Mars and began sending back photographs of the Martian landscape.

1991 - Wanda Holloway of Channelview, Texas, was convicted on this date of trying to hire a hit man to kill the mother of her daughter's cheerleader rival in junior high school.