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1347Aug 3Six burghers of the surrounded French city of Calais surrendered to Edward III of England in hopes of relieving the siege.
1546Aug 3French printer Etienne Dolet, accused of heresy, blasphemy and sedition, was hanged and burned at the stake for printing reformist literature.
1553Aug 3Mary Tudor, the new Queen of England, entered London.
1596Aug 3David Fabricius discovered light variation of Mira (1st variable star).
1610Aug 3Henry Hudson of England discovered a great bay on the east coast of Canada and named it for himself.
1667Aug 3Francesco Borromini (b.1599), Italian Baroque architect and sculptor, died. He designed the San Ivo della Sapienza church in Rome. In 2005 Jake Morrissey authored “The Genius in the Design: Bernini, Borromini and the Rivalry that Transformed Rome.”
1678Aug 3Robert LaSalle built the 1st ship in America, Griffon.
1692Aug 3French forces under Marshal Luxembourg defeated the English at the Battle of Steenkerke in the Netherlands.
1721Aug 3Grinling Gibbons (b.1648), Dutch-British sculptor and wood carver, died. He was known for his work in England.
1804Aug 3US Commodore Edward Prebble’s squadron bombarded Tripoli inflicting heavy damages on the city.
1805Aug 3Mohammed Ali became the new ruler of Egypt.
1807Aug 3Former Vice President Aaron Burr went on trial before a federal court in Richmond, Va., charged with treason. He was acquitted less than a month later.
1852Aug 3In the 1st intercollegiate rowing race, Harvard beats Yale by 4 lengths.
1860Aug 3The American Canoe Association was founded at Lake George, NY.
1863Aug 3Horatio Seymour (1810-1886), two-time governor of NY (1853-54 and 1863-64), asked Pres. Lincoln to suspend the draft in NY.
1864Aug 3Federal gunboats attacked but did not capture Fort Gains, at the mouth of Mobile Bay, Alabama.
1881Aug 3US Nation Lawn Tennis Association removed “Nation” from name.
1908Aug 3Col. Allan Allensworth (1842-1914) filed the site plan for the first African-American town, Allensworth, California. Allensworth had purchased 800 acres in Tulare County along the Sante Fe rail line and planned a settlement to be governed, financed and operated by black people. The town flourished for a decade and then began to crumble. In 1976 it was transformed into a 240-acre state park.
1911Aug 3Airplanes were used for the first time in a military capacity when Italian planes reconnoitered Turkish lines near Tripoli.
1921Aug 3The 1st aerial crop dusting was in Troy, Ohio, to kill caterpillars. .
1928Aug 3Ray Barbuti saved the US team from defeat in Amsterdam Olympics track events by winning 400 m (47.8 sec).
1936Aug 3The State Department urged Americans in Spain to leave because of that country’s civil war.
1943Aug 3Gen. George S. Patton slapped a private at an army hospital in Sicily, accusing him of cowardice. Patton was later ordered by Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower to apologize for this and a second, similar episode.
1949Aug 3The Basketball Association of America and the National Basketball League merged to form the National Basketball Association.
1954Aug 3The 1st VTOL (Vertical Take-off & Land) aircraft was flown.
1955Aug 3Automobile Association of America ended support of auto racing.
1960Aug 3Niger gained independence from France. Hamani Diori was president
1961Aug 3Britain’s Parliament adopted the Suicide Act of 1961, which decriminalized suicide in the UK, but made assisting one punishable by up to 14 years in jail.
1966Aug 3Lenny Bruce (b.1925), standup comic, died at his home in Hollywood, Ca., from a morphine overdose.
1971Aug 3Paul McCartney announced the formation of his group Wings.
1975Aug 3The Louisiana Superdome was dedicated.
1976Aug 3Valeri Sablin, Soviet Navy officer, was executed for mutiny.  He was a character in the 1990 Hollywood film “Hunt for Red October.”
1977Aug 3Radio Shack issued a press release introducing the TRS-80 computer. 25 existed and within weeks thousands were ordered.
1980Aug 3Closing ceremonies were held in Moscow for the 1980 Summer Olympic Games, which had been boycotted by dozens of countries, including the United States.
1981Aug 3US air traffic controllers (PATCO) went on strike, despite a warning from President Reagan they would be fired. Most of the 13,000 controllers defied Reagan’s order to return to work within 48 hours and were fired.
1982Aug 3An explosion on board a hot air balloon carrying 9 people at a festival in Albuquerque, New Mexico, killed four people and injured five.
1983Aug 3Carolyn Jones (b.1930), actress, died. She is best remembered for playing the role of Morticia Addams in the classic TV Series The Addams Family.
1987Aug 3The Iran-Contra congressional hearings ended, with none of the 29 witnesses tying President Reagan directly to the diversion of arms-sales profits to Nicaraguan rebels.
1988Aug 3The Soviet Union released Mathias Rust, the West German who landed a small plane in Moscow’s Red Square in May 1987.
1989Aug 3Shiite Muslim kidnappers in Lebanon suspended their threat to execute another American hostage, three days after the purported hanging of Lt. Col. William R. Higgins.
1990Aug 3US announced the commitment of Naval forces to Gulf regions.
1991Aug 3The Pan Am games opened in Havana.
1992Aug 3The US Senate voted to sharply restrict and eventually end U.S. testing of nuclear weapons.
1993Aug 3The US Senate voted 96-3 to confirm Supreme Court nominee Ruth Bader Ginsburg.
1994Aug 3President Clinton told a prime-time news conference he would sign either of two Democratic health care plans before Congress.
1995Aug 3Wisconsin Gov. Tommy Thompson announced an end to welfare offices in the state at the site of a new jobs center in Racine.
1996Aug 3In Malaysia there was a nationwide power blackout that lasted 16 hours in some areas.
1997Aug 3UPS went out on strike.
1998Aug 3Lucky Stores and Albertson’s announced a merger creating the largest supermarket chain in the US.
1999Aug 3The new Talk Magazine, a Hearst publication, hit the newsstands under Tina Brown, editor-in chief, and Ron Galotti, publisher.
2000Aug 3It was reported that scientists had developed the genetic blueprint of the cholera bacterium.
2001Aug 3In Chicago an elevated commuter train rear-ended another and over 140 people were injured.
2002Aug 3In Indonesia some 5,000 Muslims marched peacefully through Jakarta, calling for the nationwide imposition of Shariah, or Islamic law, to rescue the country from its many ills.
2003Aug 3Hank Stram, Marcus Allen, James Lofton, Elvin Bethea and Joe DeLamielleure were inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame.
2004Aug 3Homeland Security Secretary Tom Ridge defended the decision to tighten security in New York and Washington even though the intelligence behind the latest terror warnings was as much as four years old.
2005Aug 3The FBI raided the Maryland residence of Nigerian Vice President Atiku Abubakar as part of a probe into whether a US congressman made or approved payments to officials in West Africa.
2006Aug 3US authorities confirmed at least 25 deaths in 9 states from the heat wave that set in on July 30.
2007Aug 3In Alaska Mindy Schloss (52), a nurse practitioner, was last seen alive in Anchorage. Her body was found on Sep 13 near Wasilla. In 2010 Joshua Alan Wade (29) acknowledged that he had shot and killed Schloss, who lived next door to him.
2008Aug 3In Gearhart, Oregon, a small plane crashed into a seaside house killing 2 people aboard and 2 children in the vacation home.
2009Aug 3Bank of America agreed to pay $33 million to settle a complaint filed by the SEC alleging that the bank misled investors over bonuses at Merrill Lynch as BofA was finalizing its takeover of the securities firm in late 2008.
2010Aug 3In Manchester, Connecticut, Omar Thornton (34), a black warehouse driver who was caught steeling beer, went on a shooting rampage at the Hartford Distributors warehouse after he was asked to quit, killing eight people before committing suicide.
2011Aug 3US meat giant Cargill said it is recalling 36 million pounds of ground turkey linked to a nationwide salmonella outbreak that has killed one person in California and sickened at least 76 others. The fresh and frozen ground turkey products were produced at the company’s Springdale, Ark., plant from Feb. 20 through Aug. 2.
2012Aug 3Ex-Alabama Gov. Don Siegelman (66), convicted in 2006, was sentenced to 6½ years in prison for bribery and other convictions.
2013Aug 3Twitter said it is handing down new rules to control abusive language, a move which follows a barrage of nasty, harassing, and threatening messages directed at high-profile female users of the microblogging site.
2014Aug 3In southern China a magnitude 6.1 earthquake in Yunnan province toppled thousands of homes. The death toll soon climbed to nearly 600 people with more than 1,800 injured.

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