Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/September 3
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September 3: Labor Day in the United States and Labour Day in Canada (2007); Independence Day in Qatar; Armed Forces Day in Taiwan.
- 301 – San Marino, one of the smallest nations in the world and the world's oldest republic still in existence, was founded by Saint Marinus.
- 1783 – Great Britain and the United States signed the Treaty of Paris, formally ending the American Revolutionary War.
- 1901 – The National Flag of Australia (pictured), a Blue Ensign defaced with the Commonwealth Star and the Southern Cross, flew for the first time atop the Royal Exhibition Building in Melbourne.
- 1976 – The NASA Viking 2 spacecraft landed on Mars and took the first close-up, color photos of the planet's surface.
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