On This Day in History: September 3, 2010

King Richard I of England

  • 1189 – England’s King Richard I (the Lion-Hearted) was crowned in Westminster
  • 1783 – The Treaty of Paris officially ended America’s Revolutionary War
  • 1939 – Britain and France declared war on Germany
  • 1943 – Allies invaded Italian mainland
  • 1978 – Pope Benedict XV named to papacy
  • 1990 – Bush prepared for his first summit with Gorbachev
  • 2010 – A suicide bomber claimed 44 victims in two Pakistan blasts
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