History Events on August 03
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History Events on August 03
 
  
           A privately chartered Boeing 707 strikes a mountain peak and crashes near Agadir, Morocco, killing 188.
#Boeing_707
 
            In 1975 
           
 
           
  
           Treaty of Greenville is signed, ending the Northwest Indian War in the Ohio Country.
#Treaty_of_Greenville
 
            In 1795 
           
 
           
  
           Robert LaSalle builds the Le Griffon, the first known ship built on the Great Lakes.
#René-Robert_Cavelier,_Sieur_de_La_Salle
 
            In 1678 
           
 
           
  
           The pedestal of the Statue of Liberty reopens after being closed since the September 11 attacks.
#Statue_of_Liberty
 
            In 2004 
           
 
           
  
           Whittaker Chambers accuses Alger Hiss of being a communist and a spy for the Soviet Union.
#Whittaker_Chambers
 
            In 1948 
           
 
           
  
           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
 
            In 1907 
           
 
           
  
           The Siege of Algeciras commences during the Spanish Reconquista.
#Siege_of_Algeciras_(1342-44)
 
            In 1342 
           
 
           
  
           World War I: Germany declares war against France, while Romania declares its neutrality.
#World_War_I
 
            In 1914 
           
 
           
  
           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
 
            In 2005 
           
 
           
  
           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
 
            In 2007 
           
 
           
  
           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
 
            In 435 
           
 
           
  
           A 6.1 magnitude earthquake kills at least 617 people and injures more than 2,400 in Yunnan, China.
#2014_Ludian_earthquake
 
            In 2014 
           
 
           
  
           The first known letter from North America is sent by John Rut while at St. John's, Newfoundland.
#John_Rut
 
            In 1527 
           
 
           
  
           Olaf II of Norway is canonized as Saint Olaf by Grimketel, the English Bishop of Selsey.
#Olaf_II_of_Norway
 
            In 1031 
           
 
           
  
           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)
 
            In 1958 
           
 
           
  
           Thirty Years' War: The Second Battle of Nördlingen sees French forces defeating those of the Holy Roman Empire.
#Thirty_Years'_War
 
            In 1645 
           
 
           
  
           Fires resulting from the destruction of the Second Temple in Jerusalem are extinguished.
#Second_Temple
 
            In 70 
           
 
           
  
           22 people are killed and 24 injured in a shooting in El Paso, Texas.
#Mass_shootings_in_the_United_States
 
            In 2019 
           
 
           
  
           Tandy Corporation announces the TRS-80, one of the world's first mass-produced personal computers.
#Tandy_Corporation
 
            In 1977 
           
 
           
  
           600 protesters, including opposition leader Lyubov Sobol, are arrested in an election protest in Moscow, Russia.
#Lyubov_Sobol
 
            In 2019 
           
 
           
  
           Battle of Saucourt-en-Vimeu: Louis III of France defeats the Vikings, an event celebrated in the poem Ludwigslied.
#Battle_of_Saucourt-en-Vimeu
 
            In 881 
           
 
           
  
           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
 
            In 1903 
           
 
           
  
           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
 
            In 1921 
           
 
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