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Events on the 3rd of August in history

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03 Aug 0008 Roman Empire general Tiberius defeats the Dalmatae on the river Bathinus.
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03 Aug 0435 Deposed Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople Nestorius, considered the originator of Nestorianism, is exiled by Roman Emperor Theodosius II to a monastery in Egypt.
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03 Aug 0881 Battle at Saucourt: French King Louis III beats the Vikings
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03 Aug 0881 Battle of Saucourt-en-Vimeu: Louis III of France defeats the Vikings, an event celebrated in the poem Ludwigslied.
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03 Aug 1031 Olaf II of Norway is canonized as Saint Olaf by Grimketel, the English Bishop of Selsey.
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03 Aug 1108 Louis VI, "the Fat One, " King of France, crowned
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03 Aug 1312 Power of Luik Patriarch murders over 200
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03 Aug 1342 The Siege of Algeciras commences during the Spanish Reconquista.
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03 Aug 1492 All Jews are expelled from Spain
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03 Aug 1492 Columbus sets sail from Palos, Spain for "Indies"
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03 Aug 1492 Christopher Columbus sets sail from Palos de la Frontera, Spain.
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03 Aug 1527 The first known letter from North America is sent by John Rut while at St. John's, Newfoundland.
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03 Aug 1557 Dutch States-General meet at Valenciennes
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03 Aug 1596 David Fabricius discovers light variation of Mira (1st variable star)
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03 Aug 1601 Long War: Austria captures Transylvania in the Battle of Goroszló.
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03 Aug 1640 2,000 men VOC-army surrounds the city of Malakka
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03 Aug 1645 Battle of Allersheim: French defeat Bavarians
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03 Aug 1645 Thirty Years' War: the Second Battle of Nördlingen sees French forces defeating those of the Holy Roman Empire.
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03 Aug 1650 Viceroy Willem II and Amsterdam reach accord about standing army
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03 Aug 1676 Nathaniel Bacon publishes "Declaration of People of Virginia"
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03 Aug 1678 Robert LaSalle builds 1st ship in America, Griffon
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03 Aug 1678 Robert LaSalle builds the Le Griffon, the first known ship built on the Great Lakes.
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03 Aug 1692 Battle at Steenkerke: French beat English / Dutch army
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03 Aug 1704 English / Dutch fleet under Rooke / Callenburgh occupy Gibraltar
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03 Aug 1745 Bonnie Prince Charlie lands on Eriskay, Hebrides
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03 Aug 1778 Teatro alla Scala opens in Milan
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03 Aug 1795 Treaty of Greenville is signed.
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03 Aug 1797 Emperor Francis I permits Jews who served in military in "Countries of Bohemian Crown" to marry non Jews
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03 Aug 1811 First ascent of Jungfrau, third highest summit in the Bernese Alps by brothers Johann Rudolf and Hieronymus Meyer.
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03 Aug 1833 HMS Beagle reaches river mouth of Rio Negro
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03 Aug 1852 1st intercollegiate rowing race, Harvard beats Yale by 4 lengths
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03 Aug 1852 Harvard University wins the first Boat Race between Yale University and Harvard. The race is also the first American intercollegiate athletic event
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03 Aug 1855 Rotterdam-Gouda railway opens
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03 Aug 1860 American Canoe Association founded at Lake George, New York
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03 Aug 1860 The Second Maori War begins in New Zealand.
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03 Aug 1861 Federal fleet bombs Galveston, Texas
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03 Aug 1863 Governor Seymour asks Lincoln to suspend draft in New York
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03 Aug 1863 Saratoga Racetrack (NY) opens
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03 Aug 1864 Battle of Mobile, Alabama
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03 Aug 1881 Boers signs Convention of Pretoria: Transvaal semi-autonomous
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03 Aug 1881 US Nation Lawn Tennis Association removes "Nation" from name
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03 Aug 1882 Congress passes 1st law restricting immigration
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03 Aug 1900 The Firestone Tire and Rubber Company is founded.
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03 Aug 1903 Macedonian rebels in Kruševo proclaim the Kruševo Republic, which exists only for 10 days before Ottoman Turks lay waste to the town.
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03 Aug 1904 British journalist Francis Younghusband visits forbidden city Lhasa
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03 Aug 1907 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.
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03 Aug 1913 A major labour dispute, known as the Wheatland Hop Riot, starts in Wheatland, California.
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03 Aug 1914 1st seaworthy ship through Panama Canal
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03 Aug 1914 Belgium rejects demand to allow free crossing for German army
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03 Aug 1914 French fleet sails to North-Africa
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03 Aug 1914 German battle cruiser Goeben leaves Messina
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03 Aug 1914 Germany invades Belgium and declares war on France in WWI
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03 Aug 1914 Great Britain declares war on Germany
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03 Aug 1914 Turkey signs military pact with Germany
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03 Aug 1914 World Alliance for Promoting International Friendship through Churches forms
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03 Aug 1914 Yankee catcher Nunamaker throws out 3 would be stealers in 1 inning
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03 Aug 1914 World War I: Germany declares war against France.
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03 Aug 1921 1st aerial cropdusting (Troy Ohio to kill caterpillars)
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03 Aug 1921 Due to a technicality, 8 Chicago White Sox accused in Black Sox scandal are acquited, however Landis throws them out of baseball
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03 Aug 1921 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.
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03 Aug 1923 Baseball games cancelled following the death of President Harding
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03 Aug 1923 VP Calvin Coolidge becomes 30th President
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03 Aug 1924 Cyclist Piet Moeskops regains world sprint championist
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03 Aug 1925 Last US troops leave Nicaragua (there since 1912)
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03 Aug 1926 Traffic lights installed on Piccadilly Circus
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03 Aug 1928 Ray Barbuti saves US team from defeat in Amsterdam Olympics track events by winning 400 m (47.8 seconds)
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03 Aug 1929 Jiddu Krishnamurti, tagged as the messianic "World Teacher", shocks the Theosophy movement by dissolving the Order of the Star, the organisation built to support him.
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03 Aug 1930 2nd time in 1930, Chuck Klein of Phillies hits in 26 straight games
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03 Aug 1933 Yanks are shut out for 1st time after 308 games (since August 2, 1931)
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03 Aug 1936 Jesse Owens wins the 100 meter dash, defeating Ralph Metcalfe, at the Berlin Olympics.
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03 Aug 1936 A fire wipes out Kursha-2 in the Meshchera Lowlands, Ryazan Oblast, Russia, killing 1,200 and leaving only 20 survivors.
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03 Aug 1939 Jean Genets "Ondine, " premieres in Paris
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03 Aug 1940 German occupiers forbid ritual slaughters and English and French movies
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03 Aug 1940 Italian troops invade British Somalia
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03 Aug 1940 Lithuanian SSR is accepted into USSR
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03 Aug 1940 Seaplane Clare makes 1st British passagiersvlucht to the US
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03 Aug 1940 World War II: Italian forces begin the invasion of British Somaliland.
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03 Aug 1941 Benzine sales limited in US
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03 Aug 1941 Gas sales limited in US
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03 Aug 1941 German troops conquer Roslavl USSR
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03 Aug 1943 Gen Patton slaps a US GI in the hospital accusing him of cowardice
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03 Aug 1943 Nazi occupiers attack city Orel, leave it in fire
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03 Aug 1944 Allied troops conquer Myitkyina Burma
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03 Aug 1944 Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp gases 4,000 gypsies
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03 Aug 1944 Lieutenant General Stilwells troops occupy Myitkyina Burma
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03 Aug 1944 Tommy Brown, just 16 years and 8 months old, plays shortstop for Dodgers
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03 Aug 1946 Belgian government of Huysmans, forms
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03 Aug 1946 Santa Claus Land, the world's first themed amusement park, opens in Santa Claus, Indiana, United States.
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03 Aug 1948 FDR advisor Alger Hiss accused to be a "communist"
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03 Aug 1948 Whittaker Chambers accuses Alger Hiss of being a communist and a spy for the Soviet Union.
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03 Aug 1949 Basketball Association of America and National Basketball League merge to form National Basketball Association
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03 Aug 1949 Republic Indonesia proclaims cease fire
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03 Aug 1951 William H Jackson, ends term as Deputy Director of CIA
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03 Aug 1952 15th Olympic games close in Helsinki Finland
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03 Aug 1953 Frank Blair becomes news anchor of Today Show
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03 Aug 1954 1st VTOL (Vertical Take-off & Land) flown
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03 Aug 1955 Automobile Association of America ends support of auto racing
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03 Aug 1955 Hurricane Connie begins pounding US for 11 days
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03 Aug 1955 Roger Moens runs world record 800 m (1:45.7)
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03 Aug 1956 Willie Williams of US sets 100 meter record at 10.1
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03 Aug 1957 British offensive against imam Galeb Ben Ali of Oman
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03 Aug 1958 USS Nautilus begins 1st crossing of Arctic Ocean under icecap
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03 Aug 1958 The nuclear submarine USS Nautilus travels beneath the Arctic ice cap.
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03 Aug 1959 27th All Star Baseball Game: AL wins 5-3 at Memorial Coliseum, LA
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03 Aug 1959 50 killed in uprising in Guinea-Bissau
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03 Aug 1959 AL beats NL 5-3 in 27th All Star Game (Dodger Stadium)
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03 Aug 1959 Portugal's state police force PIDE fires upon striking workers in Bissau, Portuguese Guinea, killing over 50 people.
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03 Aug 1960 Niger gains independence from France.
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03 Aug 1961 The New Democratic Party of Canada is founded by the merger of the Cooperative Commonwealth Federation and the Canadian Labour Congress.
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03 Aug 1962 29th NFL Chicago All-Star Game: Green Bay 42, All-Stars 20 (65,000)
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03 Aug 1962 New York Met Frank Thomas hits his 6th HR in 3 games
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03 Aug 1963 "No Strings" closes at 84th St. Theater NYC after 580 performances
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03 Aug 1963 Allan Sherman releases "Hello Mudda, Hello Fadda"
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03 Aug 1963 Beatles final performance at Cavern Club in Liverpool
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03 Aug 1966 S African government bans Beatle records
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03 Aug 1967 45,000 US soldiers sent to Vietnam
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03 Aug 1967 James Law rides entire NYC subway in 22 hours 12 minutes
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03 Aug 1969 Reds beats Phillies 19-17
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03 Aug 1969 Sandra Spuzich wins LPGA Buckeye Savings Golf Invitational
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03 Aug 1970 4 day NFL strike ends
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03 Aug 1970 Hurricane "Celia" becomes most expensive Gulf storm in history
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03 Aug 1970 Mairiam Hargrave of Yorkshire, passes her driving test on 40th try
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03 Aug 1971 Paul McCartney announces formation of his group Wings
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03 Aug 1972 British Premier Heath proclaims emergency crisis due to harbor strike
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03 Aug 1972 Chozen-ji / International Zen Dojo founded by Omori Sogen Roshi, in Hawaii
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03 Aug 1972 The United States Senate ratifies the Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty.
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03 Aug 1973 Flash fire kills 51 at amusement park (Isle of Man, UK)
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03 Aug 1974 "Little Night Music" closes at Shubert Theater NYC after 601 performances
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03 Aug 1974 "Words & Music" closes at John Golden Theater NYC after 127 performances
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03 Aug 1974 Guitarist Jeff Baxter quits Steely Dan and joins Doobie Brothers
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03 Aug 1975 Louisiana Superdome is dedicated
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03 Aug 1975 Poland and West germany reach accord about returning ethnic Germans
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03 Aug 1975 Susie Berning wins LPGA Lady Keystone Golf Open
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03 Aug 1977 Radio Shack issues a press release introducing TRS-80 computer 25 existed, within weeks thousands were ordered
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03 Aug 1977 The United States Senate begins its hearing on Project MKUltra.
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03 Aug 1977 Tandy Corporation announces the TRS-80, one of the world's first mass-produced personal computers.
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03 Aug 1979 Fastest jai-alai shot (188 mph), Jose Arieto at Newport Jai Alai, Rhode Island
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03 Aug 1980 22nd Olympic games close at Moscow, USSR
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03 Aug 1980 Kaline, Snider, Klein, and Tom Yawkey inducted into Hall of Fame
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03 Aug 1980 Sandra Post wins West Virginia LPGA Golf Classic
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03 Aug 1981 13,000 Air Traffic Controllers (PATCO) begin their strike
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03 Aug 1981 Senegalese opposition parties, under the leadership of Mamadou Dia, launch the Antiimperialist Action Front – Suxxali Reew Mi.
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03 Aug 1982 Clyde King replaces Gene Michaels as New York Yankee manager
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03 Aug 1983 John Sain of South Bend, Ind builds 3.91 m house of cards
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03 Aug 1984 365.7 million shares traded in New York Stock Exchange
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03 Aug 1984 Bomb attack on Madras India airport, 32 killed
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03 Aug 1985 "Nihilator" set harness pacing mile (1:49.6) in East Rutherford, New Jersey
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03 Aug 1985 Train crash at Flaujac, France: 35 killed
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03 Aug 1986 Amy Alcott wins LPGA National Golf Pro-Am
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03 Aug 1986 Willie McCovey, Bobby Doerr, and Ernie Lombardi inducted in Hall of Fame
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03 Aug 1987 Chicago Bears beat Dallas Cowboys 17-6 in London, England (NFL expo)
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03 Aug 1987 Discovery in Orbital Processing Facility is powered up for STS-26
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03 Aug 1987 Jack Morris ties AL record with 5 wild pitches in a 4-2 lose
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03 Aug 1987 Twins Joe Niekro is caught with a file on the mound and is ejected
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03 Aug 1988 Skip Storch swims 246 km of Hudson River from Albany to New York City
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03 Aug 1989 5th jockey to win 6,000 races (Jorge Valesquez)
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03 Aug 1989 Cin Reds send record 20 men to bat with a record 16 hits in 1 inning as they score 14 runs in 1st inning
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03 Aug 1989 Lawrence Delisle drives his 4 kids into river
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03 Aug 1989 Rickey Henderson sets AL mark of 50 steals in 9 seasons
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03 Aug 1990 "Little Night Music" opens at New York State Theater NYC for 11 performances
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03 Aug 1990 For 3rd time in 1990 a no-hitter is broken up with 2 outs in 8th inning. Doug Drabek of Pittsburgh still beats Philadelphia 11-0
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03 Aug 1990 New York Yankee Kevin Mass sets record with 10th HR in 1st 72 at bats
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03 Aug 1990 Radio Kuwait resigns air, due to Iraqi invasion
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03 Aug 1990 US announces commitment of Naval forces to Gulf regions
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03 Aug 1991 Giant Victory, driven by Jack Moiseyev, wins Hambletonian
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03 Aug 1991 Pan Am games open in Havana
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03 Aug 1992 Dodgers win 3,000th game since moving to Los Angeles
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03 Aug 1992 Paramount inaugurates New York Street on TV / movie lot
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03 Aug 1994 1st Jordanian plane to fly over Israeli airspace (King Hussein pilot)
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03 Aug 1995 CNN en Espanol premieres
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03 Aug 1997 25th du Maurier Golf Classic: Colleen Walker wins
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03 Aug 1997 BankBoston Senior Golf Classic
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03 Aug 1997 Garth Brooks performs a free concert in Central Park New York for HBO
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03 Aug 1997 Oued El-Had and Mezouara massacre in Algeria; a total of 116 villagers killed, 40 in Oued El-Had and 76 in Mezouara.
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03 Aug 2004 The pedestal of the Statue of Liberty reopens after being closed since the September 11 attacks.
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03 Aug 2005 President of Mauritania Maaouya Ould Sid'Ahmed Taya is overthrown in a military coup while attending the funeral of King Fahd in Saudi Arabia.
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03 Aug 2005 Mahmoud Ahmadinejad becomes President of Iran.
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03 Aug 2007 Former Deputy Director of the Chilean secret police Raúl Iturriaga is captured after having been on the run following a conviction for kidnapping.
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03 Aug 2010 Widespread rioting erupts in Karachi, Pakistan, after the assassination of a local politician, leaving at least 85 dead and at least 17 billion Pakistani rupees (US$200 million) in damage.
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