September 03: Fun Facts about Today in History

Happy Birthday! (September 03, 1965)
Charlie Sheen, American actor and producer. photo source: wikimedia.org

(September 03, 1976)
On this day in 1976, NASA's robotic spacecraft Viking 2 landed on Mars after a nearly yearlong trip, and began reporting information about the planet's atmosphere and soil, as well as colour images of the stony surface.

(September 03, 1991)
Frank Capra, the beloved American director best known for Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939) and It's a Wonderful Life (1946), died at the age of 94.

(September 03, 2001)
Pauline Kael, an outspoken film critic for The New Yorker magazine who was known as much for her writing style as for the subject, died in Massachusetts.

(September 03, 2012)
Colombian cocaine trafficker Griselda Blanco, regarded as the "Godmother of Cocaine" and a key figure in the Miami drug scene in the 1970s and early 1980s, was fatally shot in Medelln, Colombia.