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We know of 7 events of note in literature and the arts that occurred on September 3:
- 19th century American regional author Sarah Orne Jewett was born on this day in 1849.
- Louis Sullivan, the architect credited with the design of the first skyscraper, was born on this day in 1856. His earliest work was in Chicago.
- On this day in 1833, The New York Sun began publication under Benjamin Day. It was the first successful penny daily in America. A one-cent paper called the Cent had been sold in 1830, but it had folded.
- On this day in 1919, Scott Fitzgerald sent the manuscript of The Romantic Egoist to Scribner's in New York. It was published the next year as This Side of Paradise.
- On this day in 1921, Ernest Hemingway married Hadley Richardson, his first wife at Horton Bay, Michigan.
- Robert Greene, the eccentric Elizabethan author and playwright, died on this day in 1592, shortly after publishing his off confessional Greene's Groat's Worth of Wit Bought with a Million of Repentance. He was the first writer to make reference to Shakespeare.
- The World-War-I play What Price Glory? opened on Broadway on this day in 1924.
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