TODAY IN HISTORY

Monday, September  03, 2012 AP Highlight in History:  On Sept. 3, 1939, Britain and France declared war on Germany, two days after the Nazi invasion of Poland. British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain   AP Photo/Len Putnam
On this date in: 1189 England's King Richard I (the Lion-Hearted) was crowned in Westminster. 1658 Oliver Cromwell, England's lord protector, died. 1783 The Treaty of Paris officially ended America's Revolutionary War. 1929 The Dow Jones industrial average closed at 381.17, it's pre-crash high. 1962 Poet E.E. Cummings died in North Conway, N.H., at age 67. 1970 Hall of Fame football coach Vince Lombardi died at age 57. 1976 The unmanned U.S. spacecraft Viking 2 landed on Mars to take the first close-up, color photographs of the planet's surface. 1978 Pope John Paul I was installed as the 264th pontiff of the Roman Catholic Church. AP Photo 2004 A three-day hostage siege at a school in Beslan, Russia, ended in bloody chaos after Chechen militants set off bombs and Russian commandos stormed the building; more than 330 people were killed, most of them children. 2005 President George W. Bush ordered more than 7,000 active duty forces to the Gulf Coast in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. 2005 Chief Justice William H. Rehnquist died at age 80. 2006 Tennis player Andre Agassi announced his retirement.		Video HIGHLIGHTS OF THIS DAY IN HISTORY Today's Birthdays: Olympic snowboarder Shaun White turns 26 years old today. AP Photo/Evan Agostini Name Profession Age Mort Walker Cartoonist ("Beetle Bailey") 89 Eileen Brennan Actress 80 Pauline Collins Actress ("Upstairs, Downstairs") 72 Valerie Perrine Actress 69 Steve Jones Rock guitarist (The Sex Pistols) 57 Steve Schirripa Actor ("The Sopranos") 55 Charlie Sheen Actor ("Two and a Half Men") 47 Rock singer-musician Al Jardine (The Beach Boys) turns 70 years old today. AP Photo/Josh Anderson