Template:Selected anniversaries/September 3
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1658: Oliver Cromwell dies. He was a military and political leader and later Lord Protector of the Commonwealth of England, Scotland, and Ireland.
1814: Mathematician and academic James Joseph Sylvester born. He will make fundamental contributions to matrix theory, invariant theory, number theory, partition theory, and combinatorics.
1892: Havelock survives shootout by playing dead.
1928: Inventor Philo Farnsworth demonstrates his electronic television system to the press.