On this day...

September 3: Flag Day in Australia; Independence Day in Qatar(1971) 1189 – Richard the Lionheart (pictured) was crownedKing of England in Westminster. 1777 – American Revolutionary War: The British Armyand their Hessian allies defeated an American militia in the Battle of Cooch's Bridge. 1838 – Future American abolitionist Frederick Douglassescaped from slavery. 1942 – The Holocaust: In possibly the first Jewish ghetto uprising, residents of the Łachwa Ghetto in occupied Poland, informed of the upcoming "liquidation" of the ghetto, unsuccessfully fought against their Nazi captors. 2001 – The Troubles: Protestant loyalists began picketing a Catholic primary school for girls in the Protestant portion of Ardoyne,Belfast, Northern Ireland.