Event:
Jim Hickman becomes 1st New York Met to hit 3 home runs in a game
More Notable Events on September 3:
1984 South Africa adopts constitution
1978 Pope John Paul I officially installed as 264th supreme pontiff
1976 Viking 2 soft lands on Mars and returns photos
1971 John Lennon leaves U.K. for New York City, never to return
1964 U.S. attorney general Robert Kennedy resigns