This Day, That Year – September 3

Ferdinand Porsche, a German car inventor who designed the Porsche and Volkswagen cars, was born on this day in 1875.

Did you know that:

• New York Sun, the first successful daily newspaper, began publishing on this day in 1833
• Ryoji Noyori, a Japanese chemist and a Nobel Prize winner for the study of chirally catalyzed hydrogenations, was born on this day in 1938
• Pierre Omidyar founded eBay on this day in 1995