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Today in History ~ August 3
Events0881 - Battle at Saucourt: French King Louis III beats the Vikings
1108 - Louis VI the Fat One," King of France crowned
1492 - From the Spanish port of Palos Italian explorer Christopher Columbus set sail in command of three ships--the Pinta the Nina and the Santa Maria--on a journey to find a Western ocean route to the Far East and confirm his belief that the world was round. [H]
1596 - David Fabricius discovers light variation of Mira
1676 - Nathaniel Bacon publishes "Declaration of People of Virginia"
1678 - Robert LaSalle builds 1st ship in America Griffon
1693 - Champagne is invented by Dom Perignon.
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
1804 - U.S. warships and gunboats launched an assault against Tripoli harbor (Libya) during the First Barbary War and hand-to-hand combat ensued with the Tripolitan gunboats; the US failed to seize control of the harbor but boarded and captured several enemy gunboats
1829 - Gioacchino Rossini's "William Tell," premieres in Paris
1861 - Federal fleet bombs Galveston Texas
1864 - Battle of Mobile AL
1882 - Congress passes 1st law restricting immigration
1914 - 1st seaworthy ship through Panama Canal
1914 - Belgium rejects demand to allow free crossing for German army
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
1916 - Sir Roger David Casement the Irish-born diplomat who in 1911 was knighted by King George V was executed by hanging for his role in Ireland's Easter Rebellion. [H]
1921 - 1st aerial crop dusting (Troy Ohio to kill caterpillars)
1921 - Due to a technicality 8 Chicago White Sox accused in Black Sox scandal are acquitted in a jury trial however baseball commissioner Kenesaw Mountain Landis refused to reinstate the former players.
1923 - VP Calvin Coolidge was sworn in as the 30th president of the United States, following the death of Warren G. Harding.
1925 - Last US troops leave Nicaragua (there since 1912)
1933 - Yanks are shut out for 1st time after 308 games
1936 - The State Department urged Americans in Spain to leave because of that country's civil war.
1939 - Jean Genets "Ondine," premieres in Paris
1940 - Lithuanian SSR is accepted into USSR
1941 - Gas sales limited in US
1941 - German troops conquer Roslavl USSR
1943 - During World War II U.S. General George S. Patton slapped an Army private hospitalized for battle fatigue accusing the young man of cowardice.
1944 - Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp gases 4 000 gypsies
1944 - Lt-Gen Stilwells troops occupy Myitkyina Burma
1948 - Cleveland's Satchel Paige make his 1st start & goes 7 innings
1948 - FDR advisor Alger Hiss accused of being a "communist"[H]
1949 - The National Basketball Association was formed.
1954 - 1st VTOL (Vertical Take-off & Land) flown
1958 - USS Nautilus became the first vessel to cross the North Pole underwater. [H]
1960 - Niger gains independence from France
1963 - Allan Sherman releases "Hello Mudda, Hello Fadda"
1963 - Great Train Robbery ($3.25 M)
1967 - 45 000 US soldiers sent to Vietnam
1970 - 4 day NFL strike ends
1970 - Hurricane "Celia" becomes most expensive Gulf storm in history
1974 - "Little Night Music" closes at Shubert Theater NYC after 601 performances
1975 - 500 drown when 2 river boats collide & sink in China's West River
1975 - Poland & West germany reach accord about returning ethnic Germans
1976 - Viking 1 photos showing Mars reached earth
1979 - Jose Ramon Areitio threw the fastest ball ever recorded.
1980 - Closing ceremonies were held in Moscow for the 1980 Summer Olympic Games, which had been boycotted by dozens of countries, including the United States.
1981 - 13 000 Air Traffic Controllers (PATCO) begin their strike, despite a warning from President Reagan they would be fired, which they were.
1982 - Clyde King replaces Gene Michaels as Yankee manager
1983 - John Sain of South Bend Ind. builds 3.91 m house of cards
1984 - Bomb attack on Madras India airport 32 killed
1989 - Lawrence Delisle drives his 4 kids into river
1990 - US announces commitment of Naval forces to Gulf regions
1991 - Secretary of State James A. Baker the Third met with King Hassan the Second of Morocco. Baker asked the monarch for his help in gaining Palestinian participation in a Middle East peace conference.
1993 - The Senate voted 96-to-three to confirm Supreme Court nominee Ruth Bader Ginsburg.
1994 - 1st Jordanian plane to fly over Israeli airspace (King Hussein pilot)
1994 - Stephen G. Breyer was sworn in as the Supreme Court's newest justice in a private ceremony at Chief Justice William H. Rehnquist's Vermont summer home.
1996 - At the Atlanta Olympics, the US men's 400-meter relay, without Carl Lewis, failed to win the gold medal, finishing behind Canada. The American women's 400 and 1600 relays, and the men's 1600, all won gold. The US men's basketball "Dream Team" beat Yugoslavia, 95-to-69, to win the gold.
2000 - George W. Bush accepted the Republican presidential nomination at the party's convention in Philadelphia, presenting himself as an outsider who would return "civility and respect" to Washington politics.
Birthdays Today
1801 - Joseph Paxton English landscape architect (Crystal Palace)
1811 - Elisha Graves Otis inventor (safe elevator)
1887 - Rupert Brooke British WW I poet (1914)
1900 - Ernie Pyle (journalist: Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter [1944]: reports of 1940 London bombings and war reports from Africa Italy and France; managing editor: Washington Daily News)
1900 - John T. Scopes (high school teacher: subject of famous 1925 Scopes Monkey Trial: convicted of teaching evolution in Tennessee school)
1902 - Ray Bloch (orchestra leader: TV shows: Blind Date The Ed Sullivan Show The Gay Nineties Revue The Jackie Gleason Show The Larry Storch Show Songs for Sale)
1904 - Clifford D[onald] Simak US sci-fi author (Hugo Empire Way Station)
1905 - Delores Del Rio (Lolita Dolores Martinez Asunsolo Lopez Negrette) (actress: Flying Down to Rio, Journey into Fear, Flaming Star, Children of Sanchez, Accused)
1910 - John Gunther (writer: Inside series: Inside Europe, Asia, Latin America, U.S.A., Africa, Russia Today, Europe Today; Behind the Curtain; foreign correspondent: Chicago Daily News)
1912 - Gene Kelly actor/dancer (Xanadu 40 Carats Marjorie Morningstar)
1917 - Charlie Shavers (musician: trumpet: group: John Kirby Sextet; composer: Pastel Blue Undecided)
1918 - Les Elgart (musician: lead trumpet bandleader: w/brother: Les and Larry Elgart)
1920 - Phyllis D "P D" James English thriller writer (Innocent Blood)
1921 - Marilyn Maxwell (actress: Arizona, Bushwackers, Champion, The Lemon Drop Kid, Summer Holiday, Lost in a Harem)
1921 - Richard Adler (composer lyricist: w/Jerry Ross: scores; Pajama Game, Damn Yankees; solo: scores: Kwamina, A Mother's Kisses)
1924 - Leon Uris (author: Exodus Mitla Pass; screenplay: Gunfight at the O.K. Corral)
1925 - Rev. Billy Sol Hargis (evangelist)
1926 - Tony Bennett (Benedetto) (Grammy Award-winning singer: I Left My Heart in San Francisco [1962] MTV Unplugged [1994]; I Wanna Be Around Who Can I Turn To, The Shadow of Your Smile, Because of You, Rags to Riches,
Stranger in Paradise, In the Middle of an Island, The Good Life; appeared in film: The Oscar)
1927 - Gordon Scott (Werschkul) (actor: Gladiator of Rome Tarzan, and the Trappers, Sampson and the 7 Miracles of the World)
1931 - Alex Cord (actor: Airwolf, To be the Best, The Uninvited, The Dirty Dozen, The Brotherhood, Street Asylum, Inn of the Damned)
1933 - Elsa Martinelli (actress: The Boat Men, Candy, Hatari)
1940 - Lance (Bambi) Alworth (Pro Football Hall of Famer: Super Bowl VI; )
1940 - Martin Sheen (Ramon Estevez) actor (J.F.K,. Wall Street, Apocalypse Now, Badlands, Ghandi, Gettysburg, The Final Countdown; father of actors Charlie Sheen & Emilio Estevez)
1941 - Beverly Lee (singer: group: The Shirelles: I Met Him on a Sunday, Dedicated to the One I Love, Tonight's the Night, Will You Love Me Tomorrow, Mama Said, Soldier Boy)
1941 - Martha Stewart (cooking craft decorating planting advisor; Martha Stewart's Living [TV and magazine])
1950 - John Landis (director: Thriller video Twilight Zone: The Movie, Beverly Hills Cop 3, The Blues Brothers, Coming to America, National Lampoon's Animal House, Oscar, Three Amigos, Trading Places)
1951 - Johnny Graham (musician: guitar: group: Earth Wind & Fire: Shining Star, Sing a Song, Got to Get You into My Life, After the Love Has Gone, Best of My Love)
1951 - Marcel Dionne (Hockey Hall of Famer: Lady Byng Trophy [1975,77]; Art Ross Trophy [1980])
1952 - Jay North (Hopper) (actor: Dennis the Menace, Maya, Zebra in the Kitchen, The Teacher, Scout's Honor)
1959 - Victoria Jackson (comedienne/actress: Saturday Night Live, Casual Sex?, The Pick-Up Artist, Family Business)
Famous deaths
0808 - P'ang Yun, [Layman P'ang], Exemplary Zen practitioner, dies in China
1460 - James II of Scotland was killed by a cannon's explosion.
1784 - Giovanni Battista Martini, composer, dies at 78
1797 - Jeffrey Amherst, English gov-gen of America, dies at 80
1907 - August Saint-Gaudens, Irish/US sculptor (Mrs. Henry Adams), dies at 59
1916 - Sir Roger Casement, Irish nationalist (Easter uprising 1916), hanged for treason at 51 [H]
1924 - Joseph Conrad, Polish/British writer (Heart of Darkness), dies at 66
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
1977 - Makarios III, [Michail Mouskos], archbishop/pres (Cyprus), dies at 63
1995 - Marcus Chenault, killer of Martin Luther King Jr's mother, dies at 54
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