• Today is Monday, Sept. 3, the 247th day of 2012. There are 119 days left in the year. This is Labor Day.
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• Today's Highlight in History:
• On Sept. 3, 1783, representatives of the United States and Britain signed the Treaty of Paris, which officially ended the Revolutionary War.
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• On this date:
• In 1189, England's King Richard I (the Lion-Hearted) was crowned in Westminster Abbey.
• In 1658, Oliver Cromwell, the Lord Protector of England, died in London; he was succeeded by his son, Richard.
• In 1861, during the Civil War, Confederate forces invaded the border state of Kentucky, which had declared its neutrality in the conflict.
• In 1868, the Japanese city of Edo was renamed Tokyo.
• In 1923, the United States and Mexico resumed diplomatic relations.
• In 1939, Britain, France, Australia and New Zealand declared war on Germany, two days after the Nazi invasion of Poland.
• In 1943, the British Eighth Army invaded Italy during World War II, the same day Italy signed a secret armistice with the Allies.
• In 1951, the television soap opera "Search for Tomorrow" made its debut on CBS.
• In 1962, poet E.E. Cummings died in North Conway, N.H., at age 67.
• In 1972, American swimmer Mark Spitz won the sixth of his seven gold medals at the Munich Olympics as he placed first in the 100-meter freestyle.
• In 1976, America's Viking 2 lander touched down on Mars to take the first close-up, color photographs of the planet's surface.
• In 1999, a French judge closed a two-year inquiry into the car crash that killed Princess Diana, dismissing all charges against nine photographers and a press motorcyclist, and concluding the accident was caused by an inebriated driver.
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• Ten years ago: Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld said the Bush administration had secret information supporting its claims that Saddam Hussein was close

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