August 3 - Events

Events

• 8 – Roman Empire general Tiberius defeats Dalmatians on the river Bathinus.
• 435 – Deposed Patriarch of Constantinople Nestorius, considered the originator of Nestorianism, is exiled byRoman Emperor Theodosius II to a monastery in Egypt.
• 881 – Battle of Saucourt-en-Vimeu: Louis III of France defeats the Vikings, an event celebrated in the poemLudwigslied.
• 1492 – Christopher Columbus sets sail from Palos de la Frontera, Spain.
• 1492 – The Jews of Spain are expelled by the Catholic Monarchs.
• 1527 – The first known letter from North America is sent by John Rut while at St. John's, Newfoundland.
• 1645 – Thirty Years' War: the Second Battle of Nördlingen sees French forces defeating those of the Holy Roman Empire.
• 1678 – Robert LaSalle builds the Le Griffon, the first known ship built on the Great Lakes.
• 1783 – Mount Asama erupts in Japan, killing 35,000 people.
• 1811 – First ascent of Jungfrau, third highest summit in the Bernese Alps by brothers Johann Rudolf and Hieronymus Meyer.
• 1852 – First Boat Race between Yale and Harvard, the first American intercollegiate athletic event. Harvard won.
• 1860 – The Second Maori War begins in New Zealand.
• 1900 – The Firestone Tire & Rubber Company is founded.
• 1913 – A major labour dispute, known as the Wheatland Hop Riot, starts in Wheatland, California.
• 1914 – World War I: Germany declares war against France.
• 1916 – World War I: Battle of Romani – Allied forces, under the command of Archibald Murray, defeat an attacking Ottoman army under the command of Friedrich Freiherr Kress von Kressenstein, securing the Suez Canal and beginning the Ottoman retreat from the Sinai Peninsula.
• 1923 – Calvin Coolidge is sworn in as the 30th President of the United States in the early morning following the death of Warren G. Harding the previous day.
• 1934 – Adolf Hitler becomes the supreme leader of Germany by joining the offices of President and Chancellor into Führer.
• 1936 – Jesse Owens wins the 100 meter dash, defeating Ralph Metcalfe, at the Berlin Olympics.
• 1940 – World War II: Italian forces begin the invasion of British Somaliland.
• 1948 – Whittaker Chambers accuses Alger Hiss of being a communist and a spy for the Soviet Union.
• 1949 – The National Basketball Association is founded in the United States.
• 1958 – The nuclear submarine USS Nautilus travels beneath the Arctic ice cap.
• 1960 – Niger gains independence from France.
• 1972 – The United States Senate ratifies the Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty.
• 1975 – A privately chartered Boeing 707 crashes into the mountainside near Agadir, Morocco, killing 188.
• 1977 – The United States Senate begins its hearing about Project MKULTRA.
• 1981 – Senegalese opposition parties, under the leadership of Mamadou Dia, launch the Antiimperialist Action Front-Suxxali Reew Mi.
• 1997 – Oued El-Had and Mezouara massacre in Algeria; a total of 116 villagers killed, 40 in Oued El-Had and 76 in Mezouara.
• 2001 – The Real IRA detonates a car bomb in Ealing, London, UK injuring seven people.
• 2004 – The pedestal of the Statue of Liberty reopens after being closed since the September 11 attacks.
• 2005 – President Maaouya Ould Sid'Ahmed Taya of Mauritania is overthrown in a military coup while attending the funeral of King Fahd inSaudi Arabia.