Some of the significant events which took place on August 3 taken from the leaf of History:
435 – Deposed Patriarch of Constantinople Nestorius, considered the originator of Nestorianism, exiled by Byzantine Emperor Theodosius II to a monastery in Egypt.
881- Battle at Saucourt: French King Louis III beats the Vikings.
1108- Louis VI, “the Fat One,” King of France, crowned.
1312- Power of Luik Patriarch murders over 200.
1492 – Christopher Columbus left Palos, Spain with three ships. The voyage led him to what is now known as the Americas. He reached the Bahamas on October 12.
1750 – Christopher Dock completed the first book of teaching methods. It was titled “A Simple and Thoroughly Prepared School Management.”
1777 – During the Siege of Fort Stanwix the first U.S. flag was officially flown during battle.
1880 – The American Canoe Association was formed at Lake George, NY.
1914 – Germany declared war on France. The next day World War I began when Britain declared.
1981 – Air Traffic Controllers Strike: 13,000 Air traffic controllers walked off the job today in hopes that the U.S. federal government would agree to their demands for better pay. President Ronald Reagan had warned them they would be fired if they went on strike and a short time later he did have them fired.
1914 – World War I Declaration of War: Germany and France Declare war on the other signaling the beginning of the First World War.
1923 – Calvin Coolidge sworn in as President: Calvin Coolidge was sworn in as president of the United States after learning that President Warren Harding had collapsed and died while visiting California the day before. He was sworn in by his father, Colonel John C. Coolidge at his father’s farmhouse in Plymouth, Vermont. Find more what happened in 1923.
1940 – England World War II: British troops hammered the Germans with air raids which the former claimed as “a smashing success”. Supplies, harbors, and airplane hangars were targeted in over 100 German cities. The British hoped to smash the Nazi blitzkrieg at its source. However, in retaliation, German war planes retaliated by bombing north western England.
1957 – Cuba Fidel Castro: Rebel resistance and strikes were plaguing President Fulgenico Batista’s government in Cuba. Fidel Castro’s forces poured down from their secret mountain hide- out to fight with Batista’s troops. A news blackout was in effect. The revolutionary stronghold in Santiago De Cuba had armed men demand gas from a gas station and then set fire to it.
1958 – North Pole Nautilus: The US Nuclear Submarine Nautilus is the first undersea vessel to reach the Geographic North Pole.
1961 – Arms Buildup during Cold War: President John F. Kennedy got approval from Congress to spend $958 million to purchase missiles, planes, and war ships to bolster the American military. This arms buildup was felt to be needed because of the communist threat to West Berlin and other areas. Kennedy got powers from Congress to call 250,000 reservists into active duty and to extend their tour of duty for one year.
1970 – U.S.A. Hurricane Celia: The category 3 hurricane “Hurricane Celia” makes landfall near Corpus Christi, Texas killing 15 in Texas and hundreds of millions of dollars of damage.
1977 – CIA and Mind Control: As of today the CIA has spent a total of $25 million over 25 years started in 1950 to study mind control and brainwashing. Research was done by Dr. D. Ewen Cameron on sensory deprivation, isolation, and his own methods of “psychic driving”. He did these experiments at McGill University in Montreal. The psychiatric patients that Cameron used as subjects were damaged for life. The CIA also funded drug experiments on patients and staff at Memorial Hospital in Providence, Rhode Island. Brainwashing experiments were also done at Cornell University Medical Center and Dr. Carl Pfeiffer did LSD studies on federal inmates in Atlanta, and the Bordentown Reformatory in New Jersey from 1955-64.
1978 – Israel Bombs Southern Lebanon: Israel retaliates after Palestinian terrorists’ bomb a Tel Aviv market by sending in bombers to a guerrilla base southern Lebanon.
1978 – Canada Commonwealth Games: The Queen opens the 11th Commonwealth Games in Edmonton, Canada.
1982 – U.S.A. Sodomy Arrest: Michael Hardwick is arrested for sodomy after a police officer observes him having sex with another man in his own bedroom in Georgia. In 1986 the Supreme Court handed down its decision in Bowers v. Hardwick, ruling by a 5-4 vote that states could continue to treat certain types of consensual sex as criminal acts.
1989 – Soviet Union Flight 007 Case Settled: Flight 007, a Korean Air Lines plane, shot down in Soviet territory six years ago killing all 269 passengers. After 6 years 137 family members won $50 million in damages. In court the jury deemed that the pilot was guilty of “willful misconduct.”
1990 – Great Britain Heat Wave: Great Britain is in the grips of a heat wave and the highest recorded temperature in modern recorded history is recorded at Nailstone, Leicestershire of 37.1C, or 99F. The 1990 record is broken during the August heat wave of 2003 when a temperature 38.5C or 101.3F was recorded Brogdale, Kent.
2003 – US Episcopal Church approves Gay Bishop: The Episcopal Church of the USA has voted to approve the appointment of Mr. Robinson an openly gay bishop who has lived with his male partner for 14 years.
2004 – U.S.A. Statue of Liberty: The Statue of Liberty was reopened for tourists for the first time since the September 11th attacks.
2006 – Saab ends arms sales to Venezuela: Swedish defense company, Saab states that it will no longer sell arms to Venezuela after a United States embargo is put in place against Venezuela. The company had been selling arms to Venezuela for twenty years but decided to comply after the embargo banned any company that uses American parts from selling to Venezuela. 2008 – China Olympic Torch: The Olympic torch passed through the Sichuan province of China on its way to Beijing for the 2008 Summer Games. The torch was originally scheduled to pass through in June but could not due to a large earthquake that killed nearly 70,000 people in the province in May.
1918 – Russia Germans Killed: Russian revolutionaries killed 700 Germans in a blast at Kiev, which indicates a terror campaign has started against the German oppressors. Also, Field Marshal Von Eachhorns was murdered, his assassin fleeing from Russia.
1931 – USA sheep in Texas: Old time sheep ranchers in San Angelo, Texas recall that the first sheep were brought into West Texas in 1875 by John Arden who drove the animals from California. Arden died a couple of years later, but his widow started a partnership with Chas. B. Metcalf and fenced in 20,000 acres for the sheep. The fencing was unique as it was wire netting, which had never been seen in the area before. The Arden farm had an enormous number of sheep.
2004 – Savannah River Research Campus: Dr. Bill Summers, a key scientist looked on as dignitaries turned the sod on the Savannah River Research Campus which was built for researching hydrogen as an alternative fuel source. A total of 9.2 million was spent on the project. Forty to fifty top scientists will be working on the new venture, hopefully starting a new era of universities and business cooperating to solve the energy crisis.
2009 – Japan trial by Jury retried: Japan held the first jury trial since World War II. The introduction of a jury system after nearly sixty years of a very private justice system leads many to believe the judicial process will become more democratic and fair than in the past.
2011 – Egypt Ex-President Mubarak denies charges: Egypt’s ex-president, Hosni Mubarak, denied all charges of corruption and charges that he ordered the killing of protesters on the first day of his trial in Cairo. Mubarak was forced from office by protesters in February 2011.
2011 – US Debt Bill signed into Law: President Barack Obama signs into law the US Debt Bill to raise the US debt limit by debt limit by $900 billion from its previous level of US$14.3 trillion.
2012 – First Saudi Arabian woman competes in Olympics: Wojdan Shahrkhani became the first Saudi Arabian woman to compete at the Olympic Games after being a part of the +78kg Judo competition. The sixteen year old was defeated by Melissa Mojica the Puerto Rican competitor.
2013 – China Tallest Tower Gets Last Beam: China’s tallest building, called the Shanghai Tower, was completed after the last steel beam was installed onto the top of the building. Workers now began on the interior with the entire project expected to be finished in 2014.
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