History Events on August 03

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

#Kursha-2

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

#Boeing_707

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

#Treaty_of_Greenville

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

#René-Robert_Cavelier,_Sieur_de_La_Salle

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

#Statue_of_Liberty

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

#Whittaker_Chambers

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

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

#United_States_Senate

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

#Christopher_Columbus

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

#Long_Turkish_War

The Siege of Algeciras commences during the Spanish Reconquista.

#Siege_of_Algeciras_(1342-44)

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

#PIDE

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

#World_War_I

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

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

#La_Scala

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

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

#Jungfrau

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

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

#2014_Ludian_earthquake

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

#John_Rut

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

#Olaf_II_of_Norway

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)

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

#Thirty_Years'_War

Fires resulting from the destruction of the Second Temple in Jerusalem are extinguished.

#Second_Temple

Niger gains independence from France.

#Niger

22 people are killed and 24 injured in a shooting in El Paso, Texas.

#Mass_shootings_in_the_United_States

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

#Tandy_Corporation

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

#Roman_Empire

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

#Lyubov_Sobol

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

#Jesse_Owens

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

#Battle_of_Saucourt-en-Vimeu

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

#Internal_Macedonian_Revolutionary_Organization

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

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

#World_War_II

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

#Senegal

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

The Firestone Tire and Rubber Company is founded.

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

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

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

Frederik van Lotharingen elected as first Belgian Pope Stephen IX.

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