TODAY IN HISTORY

On Sept. 3, 1783, representatives of the United States and Britain signed the Treaty of Paris, which officially ended the Revolutionary War.

In 1943, Allied forces

invaded Italy during World War II, the same day Italian officials signed a secret armistice with the Allies.

In 1970, legendary football coach Vince Lombardi, 57, died in Washington, D.C.

In 1976, America’s Viking 2 lander touched down on Mars to take the first close-up, color photographs of the red planet’s surface.

In 2003, Paul Hill, who said he murdered an abortion doctor and his escort to save the lives of unborn babies, was executed in Florida, becoming the first person put to death in the United States for anti-abortion violence.

In 2012, Sun Myung Moon, a self-proclaimed messiah who founded the Unification Church, died in Gapeyeong, South Korea.