On This Day — 3 August

2023

Worst floods hit major parts of Slovenia.

2023 Slovenia floods

2019

Six hundred protesters, including opposition leader Lyubov Sobol, are arrested in an election protest in Moscow, Russia.

Lyubov Sobol

2019

Twenty-three people are killed and 22 injured in a mass shooting at a Walmart in El Paso, Texas.

2019 El Paso Walmart shooting

2018

Two burka-clad men kill 29 people and injure more than 80 in a suicide attack on a Shia mosque in eastern Afghanistan.

2014

A 6.1 magnitude earthquake kills at least 617 people and injures more than 2,400 in Yunnan, China.

2014 Ludian earthquake

2014

The genocide of Yazidis by ISIL begins.

Yazidi genocide

2010

Widespread rioting erupts in Karachi, Pakistan, after the assassination of a local politician, leaving at least 85 dead and at least 17 billion Pakistani rupees (US$200 million) in damage.

2010 Karachi riots

2007

Former deputy director of the Chilean secret police Raúl Iturriaga is captured after having been on the run following a conviction for kidnapping.

Dirección de Inteligencia Nacional

2005

President of Mauritania Maaouya Ould Sid'Ahmed Taya is overthrown in a military coup while attending the funeral of King Fahd in Saudi Arabia.

List of heads of state of Mauritania

2004

The pedestal of the Statue of Liberty reopens after being closed since the September 11 attacks.

Statue of Liberty

1997

Oued El-Had and Mezouara massacre in Algeria: A total of 116 villagers killed, 40 in Oued El-Had and 76 in Mezouara.

Oued El-Had and Mezouara massacre

1997

The tallest free-standing structure in the Southern Hemisphere, Sky Tower in downtown Auckland, New Zealand, opens after two-and-a-half years of construction.

History of the world's tallest structures

1981

Senegalese opposition parties, under the leadership of Mamadou Dia, launch the Antiimperialist Action Front – Suxxali Reew Mi.

Senegal

1977

Tandy Corporation announces the TRS-80, one of the world's first mass-produced personal computers.

Tandy Corporation

1975

A privately chartered Boeing 707 strikes a mountain peak and crashes near Agadir, Morocco, killing 188.

Boeing 707

1972

The United States Senate ratifies the Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty.

United States Senate

1960

Niger gains independence from France.

Niger

1959

Portugal's state police force PIDE fires upon striking workers in Bissau, Portuguese Guinea, killing over 50 people.

PIDE

1958

The world's first nuclear submarine, the USS Nautilus, becomes the first vessel to complete a submerged transit of the geographical North Pole.

USS Nautilus (SSN-571)

1949

The Basketball Association of America and the National Basketball League finalize the merger that would create the National Basketball Association.

Basketball Association of America

1948

Whittaker Chambers accuses Alger Hiss of being a communist and a spy for the Soviet Union.

Whittaker Chambers

1946

Santa Claus Land, the world's first themed amusement park, opens in Santa Claus, Indiana, United States.

Holiday World & Splashin' Safari

1940

World War II: Italian forces begin the invasion of British Somaliland.

World War II

1936

Jesse Owens wins the 100 metre dash, defeating Ralph Metcalfe, at the Berlin Olympics.

Jesse Owens

1936

A fire wipes out Kursha-2 in the Meshchera Lowlands, Ryazan Oblast, Russia, killing 1,200 and leaving only 20 survivors.

Kursha-2

1921

Major League Baseball Commissioner Kenesaw Mountain Landis confirms the ban of the eight Chicago Black Sox, the day after they were acquitted by a Chicago court.

Commissioner of Baseball

1914

World War I: Germany declares war against France, while Romania declares its neutrality.

World War I

1907

Judge Kenesaw Mountain Landis fines Standard Oil of Indiana a record $29.4 million for illegal rebating to freight carriers; the conviction and fine are later reversed on appeal.

Kenesaw Mountain Landis

1903

Macedonian rebels in Kruševo proclaim the Kruševo Republic, which exists for only ten days before Ottoman Turks lay waste to the town.

Internal Macedonian Revolutionary Organization

1900

The Firestone Tire and Rubber Company is founded.

Firestone (company)

1859

The American Dental Association is founded in Niagara Falls, New York.

American Dental Association

1852

Harvard University wins the first Boat Race between Yale University and Harvard. The race is also known as the first ever American intercollegiate athletic event.

Harvard University

1829

The Treaty of Lewistown is signed by the Shawnee and Seneca peoples, exchanging land in Ohio for land west of the Mississippi River.

Treaty of Lewistown

1811

First ascent of Jungfrau, third highest summit in the Bernese Alps by brothers Johann Rudolf and Hieronymus Meyer.

Jungfrau

1795

Treaty of Greenville is signed, ending the Northwest Indian War in the Ohio Country.

Treaty of Greenville

1778

The theatre La Scala in Milan is inaugurated with the première of Antonio Salieri's Europa riconosciuta.

La Scala

1678

Robert LaSalle builds the Le Griffon, the first known ship built on the Great Lakes.

René-Robert Cavelier, Sieur de La Salle

1645

Thirty Years' War: The Second Battle of Nördlingen sees French forces defeating those of the Holy Roman Empire.

Thirty Years' War

1601

Long War: Austria captures Transylvania in the Battle of Goroszló.

Long Turkish War

1527

The first known letter from North America is sent by John Rut while at St. John's, Newfoundland.

John Rut

1492

Christopher Columbus sets sail from Palos de la Frontera, Spain.

Christopher Columbus

1342

The Siege of Algeciras commences during the Spanish Reconquista.

Siege of Algeciras (1342–1344)

1057

Frederick of Lorraine elected as Pope Stephen IX.

Pope Stephen IX

1031

Olaf II of Norway is canonized as Saint Olaf by Grimketel, the English Bishop of Selsey.

Saint Olaf

908

Battle of Eisenach: An invading Hungarian force defeats an East Frankish army under Duke Burchard of Thuringia.

Battle of Eisenach

881

Battle of Saucourt-en-Vimeu: Louis III of France defeats the Vikings, an event celebrated in the poem Ludwigslied.

Battle of Saucourt-en-Vimeu

435

Deposed Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople Nestorius, considered the originator of Nestorianism, is exiled by Roman Emperor Theodosius II to a monastery in Egypt.

Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople

8

Roman Empire general Tiberius defeats the Dalmatae on the river Bosna.

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