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''Knowing the past, we can make wise
choices for a brighter, and more positive future.''
| 1347 | Six burghers of the surrounded French city of Calais surrender to Edward III of England in hopes of relieving the siege. | |
| 1492 | Christopher Columbus leaves Spain on his voyage to the new world. | |
| 1546 | French printer Etienne Dolet, accused of heresy, blasphemy and sedition, is hanged and burned at the stake for printing reformist literature. | |
| 1553 | Mary Tudor, the new Queen of England, enters London. | |
| 1610 | Henry Hudson of England discovers a great bay on the east coast of Canada and names it for himself. | |
| 1692 | French forces under Marshal Luxembourg defeat the English at the Battle of Steenkerque in the Netherlands. | |
| 1805 | Muhammad Ali becomes the new ruler of Egypt. | |
| 1807 | The trial of Aaron Burr begins. He is accused of plotting the secession of New England. | |
| 1864 | Federal gunboats attack but do not capture Fort Gains, at the mouth of Mobile Bay, Alabama. | |
| 1882 | Congress passes the Immigration Act, banning Chinese immigration for ten years. | |
| 1908 | Allan Allensworth files the site plan for the first African-American town, Allensworth, California. | |
| 1911 | Airplanes are used for the first time in a military capacity when Italian planes reconnoiter Turkish lines near Tripoli. | |
| 1914 | Germany declares war on France. | |
| 1916 | Sir Roger Casement is hanged for treason in England. | |
| 1945 | Chinese troops under American General Joseph Stilwell take the town of Myitkyina from the Japanese. | |
| 1958 | The first nuclear submarine, USS Nautilus, passes under the North Pole. | |
| 1967 | President Lyndon B. Johnson announces plans to send 45,000 more troops to Vietnam. | |
| 1972 | Former Beatle Paul McCartney announces formation of his new group, Wings. | |
| 1975 | The Louisiana Superdome is dedicated. | |
| 1977 | Radio Shack unveils TRS-80 personal computer, which with Apple and Commodore would form the "1977 Trinity." Its price and Radio Shack's established retail outlets made it a bestseller for several years. | |
| 1990 | The US commits naval forces to the Persian Gulf region in the wake of Iraq's invasion of Kuwait. | |
| 2004 |
Statue of Liberty's pedestal reopens to visitors after being closed following the 9/11 terrorist attacks.
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Born on August 3
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| 1867 | Stanley Baldwin, British Prime Minister during the general strike of 1926. | |
| 1887 | Rupert Brooke, English poet who mainly wrote about World War I. | |
| 1900 | Ernie Pyle, World War II correspondent who wrote about the common soldier. | |
| 1905 | Maggie Kuhn, social activist and founder of "The Gray Panthers." | |
| 1909 | Walter Van Tilburg Clark, Western novelist who wrote The Ox-Bow Incident. | |
| 1920 | P.D. James (Phyllis Dorothy James), British mystery writer. | |
| 1924 | Leon Uris, writer whose works include Battle Cry and Exodus. | |
| 1926 | Tony Bennett, singer ("I Left My Heart in San Francisco"). | |
| 1941 | Martha Stewart, business magnate and television personality. | |
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