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On this day: U.S. spacecraft Viking 2 lands on Mars and sends back photographs in 1976

Following are some of the major events to have occurred on September 3: 1914 – Cardinal Giacomo Della Chiesa was elected Pope, becoming Benedict XV. 1925 – The U.S. dirigible Shenandoah, the first airship to use helium gas, ran into a storm over southern Ohio and broke up in the…