WillDekkard
08-03-2010, 05:16 AM
Hear are some notable events that happened on
This Date in History - August 3rd
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* 8 Roman Empire general Tiberius defeats Dalmatians on the river Bathinus.
* 435 Deposed Patriarch of Constantinople Nestorius, considered the originator of Nestorianism, is exiled by Roman 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 poem Ludwigslied
* 1492 Christopher Columbus sets sail from Palos de la Frontera, Spain.
* 1492 The Jews of Spain are expelled by the Catholic Monarchs.
* 1527 First known letter is sent from North America by John Rut while at St. John's, Newfoundland.
* 1645 Thirty Years' War: Second Battle of Nφrdlingen (Battle of Allerheim).
* 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.
* 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 Wheatland Hop Riot.
* 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.
* 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 Fόhrer.
* 1936 Jesse Owens wins the 100 meter dash, defeating Ralph Metcalfe, at the Berlin Olympics.
* 1940 World War II: Forces of Italy 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 hearing on 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; 40-76 villagers killed.
* 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 in Saudi Arabia.
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This Date in History - August 3rd
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* 8 Roman Empire general Tiberius defeats Dalmatians on the river Bathinus.
* 435 Deposed Patriarch of Constantinople Nestorius, considered the originator of Nestorianism, is exiled by Roman 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 poem Ludwigslied
* 1492 Christopher Columbus sets sail from Palos de la Frontera, Spain.
* 1492 The Jews of Spain are expelled by the Catholic Monarchs.
* 1527 First known letter is sent from North America by John Rut while at St. John's, Newfoundland.
* 1645 Thirty Years' War: Second Battle of Nφrdlingen (Battle of Allerheim).
* 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.
* 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 Wheatland Hop Riot.
* 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.
* 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 Fόhrer.
* 1936 Jesse Owens wins the 100 meter dash, defeating Ralph Metcalfe, at the Berlin Olympics.
* 1940 World War II: Forces of Italy 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 hearing on 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; 40-76 villagers killed.
* 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 in Saudi Arabia.
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