This Day in History for 3rd August

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Events 1 - 100 of 176

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 - All Jews are expelled from Spain
1492 - Columbus sets sail from Palos, Spain for the "Indies"
1527 - First known letter was sent from North America by John Rut while at St. John's, Newfoundland.
1529 - "Ladies' Peace" (treaty of Cambrai)-emperor Charles V & King French I
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
1745 - Bonnie Prince Charlie lands on Eriskay, Hebrides
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
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 bombs 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 Nation Lawn Tennis Association removes "Nation" from name
1882 - Congress passes 1st law restricting immigration
1897 - John McNally's musical "Good Mr Best," premieres in NYC
Tire Industrialist Harvey Firestone 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
1913 - Wheatland Hop Riot
1914 - 1st seaworthy ship through 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 - Great Britain declares war on Germany
1914 - Turkey signs military pact with Germany
1914 - World Alliance for Promoting Intl 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
30th US President Calvin Coolidge 1923 - VP Calvin Coolidge becomes 30th president
1924 - Cyclist Piet Moeskops regains world sprint championist
1925 - Last US troops leave Nicaragua (there since 1912)
1926 - Traffic lights installed on Piccadilly Circus
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)
1939 - Jean Genets "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 passagiersvlucht to the US
1941 - Benzine sales limited in US
1941 - Gas sales limited in US
1941 - German troops conquer Roslavl USSR
Yankee Clipper Joe DiMaggio 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 the hospital accusing him of cowardice
1943 - Nazi occupiers attack city Orel, leave it in fire
1944 - Allied troops conquer Myitkyina Burma
1944 - Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp gases 4,000 gypsies
1944 - General Montgomery visits general Dempsey's headquarter
1944 - Lt-Gen Stilwells troops occupy 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 to be 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
US General George S Patton 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

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Famous Birthdays

Birthdays 1 - 100 of 209

1509 - Étienne Dolet, French scholar (d. 1546)
1645 - August Kuhnel, composer
1692 - John Henley, English clergyman (d. 1759)
1748 - Carl Ludwig Junker, composer
1770 - Frederik Willem III, reactionary king of Prussia (1797-1840)
1801 - Joseph Paxton, English landscape architect (Crystal Palace)
1808 - Hamilton Fish, American politician (d. 1893)
1811 - Elisha Graves Otis, inventor (safe elevator)
1816 - John Eugene Smith, Bvt Major General (Union Army), died in 1897
1817 - Albrecht FR, arch duke of Austria (Battle at Custozza)
1818 - HM Jozef Schadde, Flemish architect (New Stock exchange Antwerp)
1820 - Luther Orlando Emerson, composer
1820 - William Miller, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1909
1823 - Thomas Francis Meagher, Brigadier General (Union volunteers), died in 1867
1824 - William Burnham Woods, Bvt Major General (Union volunteers)
1832 - Ivan Zajc, composer
1833 - Auguste Schmidt, German teacher/feminist
1847 - Jan de Louter, lawyer/tutor of Dutch Queen Wilhelmina
1850 - Paul A Daum, Dutch writer/founder/editor (Batavian Newspaper)
1850 - Reginald Heber Roe, 2nd Headmaster of Brisbane Grammar School (d. 1926)
1851 - Isabella Caroline Somerset, temperance leader
1854 - Fernand de La Tombelle, composer
1855 - Joe Hunter, Former Australian cricketer (d. 1891)
1856 - Alfred Deakin, 2nd Prime Minister of Australia (d. 1919)
1860 - W. K. Dickson, Scottish inventor (d. 1935)
1867 - Stanley Baldwin, (C) British PM (1923-24, 1924-29, 1935-37)
1871 - Vernon Louis Parrington, author (Romantic Revolution, Pulitzer 1928)
1872 - Haakon VII, Charlottenlund Denmark, King of Norway (1905-57)
1873 - Albert MLA de Bassompierre, Belgian ambassador to Tokyo (1921-39)
1874 - Eugene Baie, Belgian author (Sub rosa et sub umbra)
1878 - Constantino Gaito, composer
1882 - Charles O'Neill, composer
1882 - Segundo Luis Moreno Andrade, composer
1884 - Louis Gruenberg, near Brest Litovsk Poland, composer (Daniel Jazz)
1885 - Naphtali Siegfried Salomon, composer
1887 - Rupert Brooke, British WW I poet (1914)
1892 - Oscar van Hemel, composer
1894 - Harry Heilmann, SF Cal, baseball hall of famer outfielder (Detroit)
1894 - John H van Maarseveen, Dutch minister of Justice/Internal minister
1895 - Marguerite Nichols, American actress (d. 1941)
1898 - Brother Adam [Kehrle], benedictine monk/beekeeper
1899 - Sally Benson, novelist
1899 - Louis Chiron, Monegasque race car driver (d. 1979)
1900 - Arnoldus J N M Struycken, Dutch lawyer
1900 - Ernie Pyle, England, correspondent during WW II
1900 - John T Scopes, Tennessee teacher convicted for teaching evolution
1901 - Bernard Reichel, composer
1901 - John Stennis, (Sen-D-Miss)
1901 - Stefan Wyszynski, Polish cardinal
1902 - Habib Bourguiba, 1st president of Tunisia (1957-87)
1902 - Judson Laire, NYC, actor/singer (Papa-Mama, Adm Broadway Revue)
1902 - Ray Block, France, orchestra leader (Ed Sullivan, Jackie Gleason)
1902 - Regina Jonas, German first woman rabbi (d. 1944)
1904 - Clifford D[onald] Simak, US, sci-fi author (Hugo, Empire, Way Station)
1905 - Maggie Kuhn, activist/co-founder (Gray Panthers)
1906 - Leonard Huizinga, Dutch journalist/writer (Adriaan & Olivier)
1907 - Adrienne Ames, Fort Worth TX, actress (Death Kiss, Panama Patrol)
1907 - Ernesto Geisel, politician
1907 - Irene Tedrow, Denver Colo, actress (Lucy-Dennis the Menace, Mr Novak)
1907 - Lawrence Brown, US trombonist (Duke Ellington Orchestra)
1908 - Dolores del Rio, silent screen actress (Deseada, Bugambilia)
1911 - Karel G Bakker, Dutch actor (Lady Windermere's Fan)
1911 - Alex McCrindle, Scottish actor (d. 1990)
1913 - Mel Tolkin, Ukrainian-born television comedy writer (d. 2007)
1914 - Rick Slabbinck, Flemish painter
1915 - Sal Santen, Dutch writer
1916 - Shakeel Badayuni, Indian poet and lyricist (d. 1970)
1916 - José Manuel Moreno, Argentine footballer (d. 1978)
1917 - Jordan Whitfield, PA, actor (Swamp Fox)
1918 - James MacGregor Burns, political writer (The Lion & the Fox)
1918 - Sidney Gottlieb, American CIA official (d. 1999)
1918 - Larry Haines, American actor (d. 2008)
1920 - Maria Karnilova, Hartford Ct, actress (Olga-Ivan the Terrible)
1920 - P D James, mystery writer (Cover Her Face)
1920 - Phyllis D "P D" James, English thriller writer (Innocent Blood)
1920 - Charlie Shavers, American trumpet player (d. 1971)
1920 - Elmar Tampõld, Estonian-Canadian architect
1921 - Alec Wyton, composer
1921 - Hayden Carruth, Waterbury Ct, novelist (Crow & Heart)
1921 - Marilyn Maxwell, actress (East of Sumatra)
1921 - Richard Adler, NYC composer (Pajama Game, Damn Yankees)
1922 - Robert Sumner, American evangelist and author
1923 - Anne Klein, fashion designer (Anne Klein II)
1923 - Roger Foulon, French/Belgian poet
1923 - Shenouda III of Alexandria, Pope of the Coptic Christianity, (d. 2012)
1924 - Leon Uris, Baltimore, novelist (Exodus, QB VII, Battle Cry)
1924 - Max van der Stoel, Dutch Foreign minister (PvdA)
1926 - Tony Bennett, Queens NY, singer (Left a body part in SF)
1927 - Enrique Pinella, composer
1927 - Gordon Scott, Portland Oregon, actor (Tarzan & the Trappers)
1928 - Cécile Aubry, French actress
1929 - Bethel Leslie, NYC, entertainer (Capt Newman MD, Rabbit Trap)
1930 - James Komack, NYC, writer/director/actor (Courtship of Eddie's Father)
1931 - Alex Cord, [Viespi], NYC, actor (Brotherhood, Fire, Street Asylum)
1932 - Elsa Martinelli, Grosseto Italy, actress (Indian Fighter)
1932 - Mario Montes de Oca, Mexican poet
1933 - Pat Crawford, cricketer (Australian pace bowler 1956)
1933 - The Tjong King, Dutch illustrator of children books (Miep Diekman)
1934 - Haystacks Calhoun, American professional wrestler (d. 1989)
1935 - Georgi Stepanovich Shonin, Odessa USSR, cosmonaut (Soyuz 6)

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Famous Weddings

Weddings 1 - 1 of 1

1932 - Austro-Hungarian-American theatre and film director Otto Preminger (26) weds Marion Mill

Famous Divorces

Divorces 1 - 1 of 1

2012 - Music legend Stevie Wonder (63) divorces fashion designer Kai Millard Morris due to irreconcilable differences after 11 years of marriage

Famous Deaths

Deaths 1 - 100 of 103

808 - P'ang Yun, [Layman P'ang], Exemplary Zen practitioner, dies in China
1387 - Olaf V Haakonsson, King of Denmark (1376-87)/Norway (1380-87), dies
1460 - King James II of Scotland (b. 1430)
1527 - Scaramuccia Trivulzio, Italian cardinal
1530 - Philibert Chalon, prince of Orange/viceroy of Naples, dies
1546 - Antonio da Sangallo the Younger, Italian architect (b. 1484)
1546 - Étienne Dolet, French scholar and printer (b. 1509)
1604 - Bernardino de Mendoza, Spanish military commander
1621 - Guillaume du Vair, French writer (b. 1556)
1667 - Francesco Borromini, Swiss sculptor and architect (b. 1599)
1712 - Joshua Barnes, English scholar (b. 1654)
1716 - Sebastian Duron, composer, dies at 56
1720 - Anthonie Heinsius, Dutch statesman (b. 1641)
1721 - Grinling Gibbons, Dutch-born woodcarver (b. 1648)
1761 - Johann Matthias Gesner, German classical scholar (b. 1691)
1773 - Stanisław Konarski, Polish writer (b. 1700)
1779 - Henry Kobell, Dutch painter/cartoonist, dies at 27
1780 - Etienne B de Condillac, French philosopher (sensualism), dies at 64
1784 - Giovanni Battista Martini, composer, dies at 78
1792 - Richard Arkwright, English industrialist and inventor (b. 1732)
1797 - Jeffrey Amherst, English gov-gen of America, dies at 80
1800 - Carl Friedrich Christian Fasch, composer, dies at 63
1802 - Henry DFL, prince of Prussia/general/diplomat, dies
1805 - Christopher Anstey, English writer (b. 1724)
1811 - Sebastiaan C Nederburgh, Dutch dir-gen of East Indies Co, dies at 49
1823 - Jacob A Uitenhage de Mist, Dutch politician/colonial dir, dies at 74
1825 - Ambrogio Minoja, composer, dies at 72
1833 - Stoffel Muller, Dutch sect leader, dies
1835 - Wenzel Muller, composer, dies at 67
1839 - Dorothea von Schlegel, German novelist (b. 1763)
1857 - Eugène Sue, French novelist (b. 1804)
1867 - Philipp August Böckh, German scholar and antiquarian (b. 1785)
1877 - Karl Georg Lickl, composer, dies at 75
1879 - Joseph Severn, English painter (b. 1793)
1886 - Per August Olander, composer, dies at 62
1890 - Louise Ackermann-Choquet, French author (Journal), dies at 76
1894 - George Inness, US landscape painter (Delaware Water Gap), dies at 69
1902 - August Friedrich Martin Klughardt, composer, dies at 54
1907 - August Saint-Gaudens, Irish/US sculptor (Mrs Henry Adams), dies at 59
1910 - Nicolas Kinet, Belgian pilot, dies
1916 - Roger Casement, Irish nationalist (Easter uprising 1916), executed 51
1918 - Albert P Hahn, Dutch political cartoonist (Het Volk), dies at 41
Novelist Joseph Conrad (1924) 1924 - Joseph Conrad, Polish/British writer (Heart of Darkness), dies at 66
1925 - William Bruce, cricketer (drowns 14 Tests for Australia 1885-95), dies
1929 - Thorstein Veblen, American economist (b. 1857)
1929 - Emil Berliner, German-born telephone and recording pioneer (b. 1851)
1933 - Arthur Collins, singer/comedian (Peerless Quartet), dies at 69
1934 - Carl F baron von Langen-Parow, German equestrian (Olympic-gold-1928)
1938 - Alexander Malyschkin, writer, dies
1939 - Eugust Enna, composer, dies at 80
1940 - Willard Hershberger, catcher (Cin Reds), commits suicide
1944 - Felix Nussbaum, German painter (Widerstandskunst), dies in Auschwitz
1944 - Felka Platek, wife of painter Felix Nussbaum, dies in Auschwitz
1948 - Albert F Pollard, Brit historian (Evolution of parliament), dies at 78
1951 - Neville Tufnell, cricket wicket keeper (Test for England 1910), dies
1954 - Colette, [Sidonie-Gabrielle], French novelist (Vagabonde), dies at 81
1957 - "Black Jack" Bouvier, father of Jacqueline Kennedy, dies of cancer
Novelist and Performer Colette (1954) 1958 - Peter Collins, English race car driver (b. 1931)
1964 - Flannery O'Connor, writer (Good Man is Hard to Find), dies at 39
1966 - Lenny Bruce, comedian, dies of a morphine overdose at 39
1968 - Constantine Rokossovski, vice-premier of Poland (1952-56), dies at 71
1973 - Ariantje "Jeanne" Leg, actress (It Vijgeblaadje/It Hippie), dies at 84
1973 - Richard Marshall, U.S. Army general (b. 1895)
1974 - Almira Sessions, actress (Oklahoma Annie), dies at 85
1975 - Ruth Lee, actress (Middleton Family at 1939 World's Fair), dies at 79
1977 - Alfred Lunt, actor (Guardsman, Sally of Sawdust), dies at 83
1977 - Makarios III, [Michail Mouskos], archbishop/pres (Cyprus), dies at 63
1978 - Ezzedin Kalak, Palestinian PLO representative in Paris, murdered
1979 - Renato Fasano, composer, dies at 76
1979 - Bertil Ohlin, Swedish economist, Nobel Prize Laureate (b. 1899)
1981 - Robert Peci, Italian brother of Red Brigade leader, murdered
1983 - Carolyn Jones, actress (Morticia-Addams Family), dies at 54 of cancer
1986 - Paul [Saul] de Groot, chairman Dutch Communist party, dies at 87
1986 - Rupert de Smidt, cricketer (Western Province 1911-13), dies at 102
1986 - Willem Ruis, Dutch TV host (Willem Ruis Show), dies at 41
1990 - Florida Edwards, dies of pneumonia at 79
1992 - Wang Hongwen, vice-President Chinese Comm Party (1973-76), dies
1993 - James Donald, actor (In Which We Serve, Way Ahead), dies at 76
1994 - Carel van Dillen, resistance fighter, dies at 77
1994 - Christy Henrich, US turnster, dies of anorexia nervosa at 22
1994 - Innokenti Smoktunovski, Russian actor (Hamlet), dies at 69
1994 - John Hidalgo Moya, architect, Designer of Skylon, dies at 74
1994 - John van Raay, [John Oradi], radio-imitator (Paul Flanders)
1995 - Carl Donnell "Kansas" Fields, drummer, dies at 79
1995 - Harry Craft, baseball manager, dies at 80
1995 - Ida Lupino, actress/director (Hard Way, High Sierra), dies at 77
1995 - Jose B M Barreto y Casanova, pianist vocalist bandleader, dies at 88
1995 - Marcus Chenault, killer of Martin Luther King Jr's mother, dies at 54
1995 - Edward Whittemore, American writer (b. 1933)
1996 - Guido Alberti, literary patron/businessman, dies at 87
1997 - Pietro Rizzuto, Canadian politician (b. 1934)
1998 - Alfred Schnittke, Russian composer (b. 1934)
2001 - Christopher Hewett, British actor (b. 1922)
2002 - Carmen Silvera, British actress (b. 1922)
2003 - Roger Voudouris, American singer and songwriter (b. 1954)
Photographer Henri Cartier-Bresson (2004) 2004 - Henri Cartier-Bresson, French photographer, dies at 95
2005 - Françoise d'Eaubonne, French feminist (b. 1920)
2006 - Arthur Lee, American psychedelic rock musician (b. 1945)
2006 - Elisabeth Schwarzkopf, singer (b. 1915)
2007 - John Gardner, British author (b. 1926)