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August 3 is the 215th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (216th in leap years), with 150 days remaining.

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Events

1492 - Christopher Columbus sets sail from Palos de la Frontera, Spain.
1492 - The Jews were expelled from Spain by the Catholic Monarchs.
1645 - The Second Battle of Nördlingen, fought between the forces of France and the Holy Roman Empire.
1678 - Robert LaSalle builds the Griffon , the first known ship built in America.
1860 - Second Maori War begins in New Zealand.

1900 - Firestone Tire & Rubber Company founded.
1914 - First World War: Germany declares war against France.
1916 - First World War: Battle of Romani is fought between forces of the British Empire and the Ottoman Empire.
1923 - Calvin Coolidge is inaugurated as the 30th President of the United States.
1940 - Second World War: Italy invades British Somaliland.
1946 - National Basketball Association was founded in the United States.
1948 - Whittaker Chambers accuses Alger Hiss of being a communist and a spy for the Soviet Union.
1958 - Nuclear submarine USS Nautilus travels beneath the Arctic ice cap.
1960 - Niger gains independence from France.
1972 - U.S. Senate ratifies the Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty.
1973 - R&B singer Stevie Wonder releases the classic album Innervisions.
1975 - A privately chartered Boeing 707 impacts the mountainside near Agadir, Morocco killing 188.
1977 - United States Senate Hearing on MKULTRA.
1981 - In the United States, Professional Air Traffic Controllers Organization walks off the job. All 13,000 members will eventually be fired by President Ronald Reagan.
1983 - New York Yankee outfielder Dave Winfield accidentally killed a seagull during a baseball game and was charged by police for his "act of cruelty to animals". His manager Billy Martin quipped, "It's the first time he's hit the cutoff man."
1997 - Oued El-Had and Mezouara massacre in Algeria; 40-76 villagers killed.

2000 - George W. Bush accepted the Republican presidential nomination at the party's convention in Philadelphia.

1509 - Étienne Dolet, scholar and printer (d. 1546)
1645 - August Kuhnel , composer
1692 - John Henley, clergyman (d. 1759)
1748 - Carl Ludwig Junker , composer
1753 - Charles Stanhope , inventor of the calculator
1770 - King Friedrich Wilhelm III of Prussia (d. 1840)
1801 - Joseph Paxton, landscape gardener (d. 1865)
1808 - Hamilton Fish, politician (d. 1893)
1811 - Elisha Graves Otis, inventor (safe elevator)
1817 - Archduke Albert, Austrian general
1823 - Thomas F. Meagher , Irish rebel, convict and escapee in Australia, US Union general
1833 - Auguste Schmidt , feminist and teacher (d. 1902)
1856 - Alfred Deakin, second Prime Minister of Australia (d. 1919)
1860 - W.K. Dickson, Scottish inventor (d. 1935)
1867 - Stanley Baldwin, British Prime Minister (d. 1947)
1872 - King Haakon VII of Norway (d. 1957)
1887 - Rupert Brooke, poet (d. 1915)
1894 - Harry Heilmann, Baseball Hall of Famer (d. 1951)

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