Notable Historical Events on August 3rd
August 3rd Historical Events
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
8 |
Roman Empire general Tiberius defeats Dalmatians on the river Bathinus. |
435 |
Deposed Patriarch of Constantinople Nestorius, considered the originator of Nestorianism, exiled by Byzantine Emperor Theodosius II to a monastery in Egypt. |
881 |
Battle at Saucourt: French King Louis III beats the Vikings |
1108 |
Louis VI, "the Fat One," King of France, crowned |
1312 |
Power of Luik Patriarch murders over 200 |
1492 |
Christopher Columbus sets sail on his first voyage with 3 ships Santa Maria, Pinta and Niña from Palos de la Frontera, Spain for the "Indies" |
1527 |
First known letter was sent from North America by John Rut while at St. John's, Newfoundland. |
1529 |
"Peace of the Ladies" (Treaty of Cambrai) made between Holy Roman Empire and the French, negotiated by Louise of Savoy and Margaret of Austria |
1557 |
Dutch States-General meet at Valenciennes |
1596 |
David Fabricius discovers light variation of Mira (1st variable star) |
1635 |
The third of the Tokugawa shoguns, Iemitsu, establishes the system of alternate attendance (sankin kotai) by which the feudal daimyō are required to spend one year at Edo Castle in Tokyo and one year back home at their feudal manor, while their families remained in Tokyo as virtual political hostages. (Traditional Japanese Date: June 21, 1635). |
1640 |
2,000 men VOC-army surrounds the city of Malakka |
1640 |
Zorilla's "Bire el Ojo" premieres in Toledo |
1645 |
Battle of Allersheim: French defeat Bavarians |
1650 |
Viceroy Willem II & Amsterdam reach accord about standing army |
1676 |
Nathaniel Bacon publishes "Declaration of People of Virginia" |
1678 |
Robert LaSalle builds 1st ship in America, Griffon |
1692 |
Battle at Steenkerke: French beat English/Dutch army |
1704 |
English/Dutch fleet under Rooke/Callenburgh occupy Gibraltar |
1708 |
Battle at Trencsén: Austria beats Hungarian rebellion army |
1778 |
Teatro alla Scala opens in Milan |
1797 |
Emperor Francis I permits Jews who served in military in "Countries of Bohemian Crown" to marry non Jews |
1804 |
Naturalist Alexander von Humboldt lands at Bordeaux, France completing his 5 year expedition to Latin America |
1829 |
Gioacchino Rossini's "William Tell" premieres in Paris |
1833 |
HMS Beagle reaches river mouth of Rio Negro |
1852 |
1st intercollegiate rowing race, Harvard beats Yale by 4 lengths |
1855 |
Rotterdam-Gouda railway opens |
1860 |
American Canoe Association founded at Lake George NY |
1860 |
The Second Maori War begins in New Zealand. |
1861 |
Federal fleet bombards Galveston, Texas |
1863 |
Governor Seymour asks Lincoln to suspend draft in NY |
1863 |
Saratoga Racetrack (NY) opens |
1864 |
Battle of Mobile AL |
1881 |
Boers signs Convention of Pretoria: Transvaal semi-autonomous |
1881 |
US National Lawn Tennis Association removes "National" from its name |
1882 |
Congress passes 1st law restricting immigration |
1897 |
John McNally's musical "Good Mr Best" premieres in NYC |
1900 |
Firestone Tire & Rubber Company founded. |
1904 |
British journalist Francis Younghusband visits forbidden city Lhasa |
1906 |
Wash Natl's pitcher Tom Hughes hits HR to win his own game 1-0 in 10th |
1907 |
Kaiser Wilhelm (Germany) meets with Tsar Nicholas (Russia) to discuss Germany's plan to build a railroad to Baghdad; the discussion helps move Russia towards Britain and eventually the Triple Alliance |
1908 |
French brothers Amadee and Jean Bouyssonie discover the fossil remains of a nearly complete 60,000 year-old Neanderthal man at La Chappelle-aux-Saints, France. Known as the 'Old man of La Chappelle' his skeleton shows that Neanderthals led physically stressful lives with high risk of injury. |
1913 |
Wheatland Hop Riot |
1914 |
1st seaworthy ship passes through the Panama Canal |
1914 |
Belgium rejects demand to allow free crossing for German army |
1914 |
French fleet sails to North Africa |
1914 |
German battle cruiser Goeben leaves Messina |
1914 |
Germany invades Belgium & declares war on France in WW I |
1914 |
World Alliance for Promoting International Friendship through Churches forms |
1914 |
Yankee catcher Nunamaker throws out 3 would be stealers in 1 inning |
1921 |
1st aerial cropdusting (Troy Ohio to kill caterpillars) |
1921 |
Due to a technicality, 8 Chicago White Sox accused in Black Sox scandal are acquited, however Landis throws them out of baseball |
1923 |
Baseball games cancelled following the death of President Harding |
1923 |
VP Calvin Coolidge becomes 30th US President upon death of President Warren G. Harding |
1924 |
Cyclist Piet Moeskops regains world sprint championist |
1925 |
Last US troops leave Nicaragua (there since 1912) |
1926 |
Traffic lights installed at Piccadilly Circus, London |
1928 |
Ray Barbuti saves US team from defeat in Amsterdam Olympics track events by winning 400 m (47.8 sec) |
1930 |
2nd time in 1930, Chuck Klein of Phillies hits in 26 straight games |
1933 |
Yanks are shut out for 1st time after 308 games (since Aug 2, 1931) |
1934 |
Adolf Hitler merges the offices of chancellor and president, declaring himself 'Führer ' (leader). |
1939 |
Jean Genet's "Ondine" premieres in Paris |
1940 |
German occupiers forbid ritual slaughters & English & French movies |
1940 |
Italian troops invade British Somalia |
1940 |
Lithuanian SSR is accepted into USSR |
1940 |
Seaplane Clare makes 1st British passenger flight to the US |
1941 |
Gas (petroleum) sales limited in US |
1941 |
German troops conquer Roslavl USSR |
1941 |
Browns pitcher Johnny Niggling gets Joe DiMaggio in 4 at bats to stop DiMaggio's streak of 74 games in reaching base |
1943 |
Gen Patton slaps a US GI in hospital, accusing him of cowardice |
1943 |
Nazi occupiers attack city of Orel, leave it on fire |
1944 |
Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp gases 4,000 gypsies |
1944 |
General Montgomery visits general Dempsey's headquarter |
1944 |
Allied troops under Lt-Gen Joseph Stilwell take Myitkyina, Burma |
1944 |
Tommy Brown, just 16 years & 8 months old, plays shortstop for Dodgers |
1946 |
Belgian government of Huysmans forms |
1948 |
Cleveland's Satchel Paige make his 1st start & goes 7 innings |
1948 |
FDR advisor Alger Hiss accused of being a "communist" |
1949 |
Republic Indonesia proclaims cease fire |
1949 |
Basketball Association of America & National Basketball League merge to form National Basketball Association |
1951 |
William H Jackson ends term as deputy director of CIA |
1952 |
15th Olympic games close in Helsinki Finland |
1953 |
Frank Blair becomes news anchor of Today Show |
1954 |
1st VTOL (Vertical Take-off & Land) flown |
1955 |
Automobile Association of America ends support of auto racing |
1955 |
Hurricane Connie begins pounding US for 11 days |
1955 |
Roger Moens runs world record 800 m (1:45.7) |
1956 |
Willie Williams of US sets 100 meter record at 10.1 |
1957 |
British offensive against imam Galeb Ben Ali of Oman |
1958 |
USS Nautilus reaches North Pole, 1st submarine to achieve submarine transit of North Pole |
1958 |
The Billboard Hot 100 is founded |
1959 |
27th All Star Baseball Game: AL wins 5-3 at Memorial Coliseum, LA |
1959 |
50 killed in uprising in Guinea-Bissau |
1959 |
AL beats NL 5-3 in 27th All Star Game (Dodger Stadium) |
1960 |
Niger gains independence from France |
1962 |
29th NFL Chicago All-Star Game: Green Bay 42, All-Stars 20 (65,000) |
1962 |
NY Met Frank Thomas hits his 6th HR in 3 games |
1963 |
"No Strings" closes at 84th St Theater NYC after 580 performances |
1963 |
Allan Sherman releases "Hello Mudda, Hello Fadda" |
1963 |
Beatles final performance at Cavern Club in Liverpool |
1966 |
South African government bans Beatle records |
1967 |
45,000 US soldiers sent to Vietnam |
1967 |
James Law rides entire NYC subway in 22 hrs 12 minutes |
1968 |
France performs nuclear test at Muruora Island |
1969 |
Reds beats Phillies 19-17 |
1969 |
Sandra Spuzich wins LPGA Buckeye Savings Golf Invitational |
1970 |
4 day NFL strike ends |
1970 |
Christopher Hampton's "Philanthropist" premieres in London |
1970 |
Hurricane "Celia" becomes most expensive Gulf storm in history |
1970 |
Mairiam Hargrave of Yorkshire passes her driving test on 40th try |
1971 |
Paul McCartney announces formation of his group Wings |
1972 |
British premier Edward Heath proclaims emergency crisis due to dock strike |
1972 |
Chozen-ji/Intl Zen Dojo founded by Omori Sogen Roshi, in Hawaii |
1972 |
U.S. Senate ratifies the Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty. |
1973 |
Flash fire kills 51 at amusement park (Isle of Man, UK) |
1973 |
National People's party wins Dutch Antilles National elections |
1974 |
"Little Night Music" closes at Shubert Theater NYC after 601 perfs |
1974 |
"Words & Music" closes at John Golden Theater NYC after 127 perfs |
1974 |
Guitarist Jeff Baxter quits Steely Dan & joins Doobie Brothers |
1975 |
500 drown when 2 river boats collide & sink in China's West River |
1975 |
Louisiana Superdome is dedicated |
1975 |
Poland & West Germany reach accord about returning ethnic Germans |
1975 |
Susie Berning wins LPGA Lady Keystone Golf Open |
1977 |
Radio Shack issues a press release introducing TRS-80 computer 25 existed, within weeks thousands were ordered |
1977 |
United States Senate Hearing on MKULTRA. |
1979 |
Fastest jai-alai shot (188 mph), Jose Arieto at Newport Jai Alai, RI |
1979 |
US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
1980 |
22nd Olympic games close at Moscow, USSR |
1980 |
Kaline, Snider, Klein, & Tom Yawkey inducted into Hall of Fame |
1980 |
Sandra Post wins West Virginia LPGA Golf Classic |
1981 |
13,000 Air Traffic Controllers (PATCO) begin their strike; US President Ronald Reagan offers ultimatum to workers: 'if they do not report for work within 48 hours, they have forfeited their jobs and will be terminated' |
1981 |
France performs nuclear test in Pacific |
1981 |
Senegalese opposition parties, under the leadership of Mamadou Dia, launch the Antiimperialist Action Front-Suxxali Reew Mi. |
1982 |
Clyde King replaces Gene Michaels as NY Yankee manager |
1983 |
John Sain of South Bend, Ind, builds 3.91 m house of cards |
1983 |
US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
1984 |
365.7 million shares traded in NY Stock Exchange |
1984 |
Bomb attack on Madras India airport, 32 killed |
1985 |
"Nihilator" set harness pacing mile (1:49.6) in East Rutherford, NJ |
1985 |
Train crash at Flaujac, France: 35 killed |
1986 |
Amy Alcott wins LPGA National Golf Pro-Am |
1986 |
Willie McCovey, Bobby Doerr, & Ernie Lombardi inducted in Hall of Fame |
1987 |
Chicago Bears beat Dallas Cowboys 17-6 in London, England (NFL expo) |
1987 |
Discovery in Orbital Processing Facility is powered up for STS-26 |
1987 |
Jack Morris ties AL record with 5 wild pitches in a 4-2 lose |
1987 |
Twins Joe Niekro is caught with a file on the mound & is ejected |
1988 |
Skip Storch swims 246 km of Hudson River from Albany to NYC |
1989 |
5th jockey to win 6,000 races (Jorge Valesquez) |
1989 |
Lawrence Delisle drives his 4 kids into river |
1989 |
Rickey Henderson sets AL mark of 50 steals in 9 seasons |
1989 |
Cin Reds send record 20 men to bat with a record 16 hits in 1 inning as they score 14 runs in 1st inning |
1990 |
"Little Night Music" opens at New York State Theater NYC for 11 perfs |
1990 |
98.8°F (37.1°C) in Cheltenham, Glos. (UK record) |
1990 |
NY Yankee Kevin Mass sets record with 10th HR in 1st 72 at bats |
1990 |
Radio Kuwait resigns air, due to Iraqi invasion |
1990 |
US announces commitment of Naval forces to Gulf regions |
1990 |
For 3rd time in 1990 a no-hitter is broken up with 2 outs in 8th inning. Doug Drabek of Pitts still beats Phila 11-0 |
1991 |
Giant Victory, driven by Jack Moiseyev, wins Hambletonian |
1991 |
Pan Am games open in Havana |
1992 |
Dodgers win 3,000th game since moving to Los Angeles (3,000-2,531) |
1992 |
Paramount inaugurates New York Street on TV/movie lot |
1994 |
102.4°F (39.1°C) in Tokyo Japan: record |
1994 |
1st Jordanian plane to fly over Israeli airspace (King Hussein pilot) |
1995 |
CNN en Espanol premieres |
1996 |
US General William F. Garrison accepts responsibility for outcome of the 1993 raid in Somalia, and retires from military service. |
1997 |
25th du Maurier Golf Classic: Colleen Walker |
1997 |
BankBoston Senior Golf Classic |
1997 |
Garth Brooks performs a free concert in Central Park NY for HBO |
1997 |
Phil Mickelson wins golf's Sprint International |
1997 |
Oued El-Had and Mezouara massacre in Algeria; 40-76 villagers killed. |
2001 |
The Real IRA detonate a car bomb in Ealing, London, U.K injuring seven people. (See 3 August 2001 Ealing bombing). |
2001 |
The Princess Diaries, starring Anne Hathaway in her film debut, is released |
2001 |
US President George Bush signs into law the Iran and Libya Sanctions Act (ILSA) Extension Act of 2001 |
2004 |
The pedestal of the Statue of Liberty reopens after being closed since the September 11, 2001 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. |
2008 |
Morgan Freeman is injured in an automobile accident near Ruleville, Mississippi, when his car flipped over several times on the highway |
2012 |
United Nations General Assembly reproaches The United Nations Security Council over its lack of action in Syria |
2013 |
9 children are killed by a suicide bombing in Jalalabad, Afghanistan |
2013 |
80 people are killed in a wave of insurgency across Iraq |
2013 |
The Chiefs defeat the Brumbies to win the Super 15 Rugby Final |
2016 |
North Korea Fires Ballistic Missile Into Sea, South Korea Says |
2016 |
Hewlett Packard's Meg Whitman joins CEOs endorsing Clinton |
2016 |
Florida to begin aerial spraying of insecticides to control Zika |
2017 |
US bans travel to North Korea from September 1, says Americans should leave |
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