03 August History


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  • 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.
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  • 1692    -    French forces under Marshal Luxembourg defeat the English at the Battle of Steenkerke in the Netherlands.
  • 1805    -    Mohammed 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.
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  • 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.
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  • 03 August Birthdays

  • 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 Tilberg, 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.