Historical events on August 3
AUGUST 3, 1997
The Sky Tower, then the tallest free-standing structure in the Southern Hemisphere at 328 m (1,076 ft), opened in Auckland, New Zealand.
The Sky Tower is a telecommunications and observation tower in Auckland, New Zealand. Located at the corner of Victoria and Federal Streets
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AUGUST 3, 1971
Fighting Dinosaurs, a fossil specimen featuring a Velociraptor and a Protoceratops in combat, was unearthed in the Djadochta Formation of Mongolia.
The Fighting Dinosaurs is a fossil specimen which was found in the Late Cretaceous Djadokhta Formation of Mongolia in 1971. It preserves
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AUGUST 3, 2009
The last vessels involved in Taurus 09, a Royal Navy training deployment covering 20,400 miles (32,800 km), returned to HMNB Devonport, England.
Taurus 09 was a Royal Navy deployment in 2009. It was the largest for more than ten years, involving a maximum strength
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AUGUST 3, 1940
World War II: Italian forces began a conquest of British Somaliland, capturing the region in 16 days.
World War II or the Second World War was a global conflict between two coalitions: the Allies and the Axis powers. Nearly all
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AUGUST 3, 1857
Indian Rebellion: An eight-day siege of a fortified outbuilding in Arrah occupied by 68 defenders against more than 10,000 men ended when a relief party dispersed the besiegers.
The Indian Rebellion of 1857 was a major uprising in India in 1857–58 against the rule of the British East India Company,
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AUGUST 3, 2005
Mauritanian president Maaouya Ould Sid'Ahmed Taya was overthrown in a military coup while he attended the funeral of King Fahd of Saudi Arabia.
Mu'awiya Ould Sid'Ahmed al-Taya is a Mauritanian military officer and politician who served as the President of Mauritania from 1984 to 2005.
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AUGUST 3, 1929
Jiddu Krishnamurti (pictured), believed by some Theosophists to be a likely candidate for the messianic "World Teacher", dissolved the Order of the Star, the organisation established to support him.
Jiddu Krishnamurti was an Indian philosopher, speaker, writer, and spiritual figure. Adopted by members of the Theosophical tradition as a child, he
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AUGUST 3, 1977
Tandy Corporation announced the TRS-80, one of the world's first mass-produced personal computers.
Tandy Corporation was an American family-owned retailer based in Fort Worth, Texas that made leather goods, operated the RadioShack chain, and later built personal computers.
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"Radioshack TRS80-IMG 7206" by Rama & Musée Bolo - CC BY-SA 2.0 fr
AUGUST 3, 1347
Hundred Years' War: The French town of Calais capitulated to English forces after an eleven-month siege, ending the Crécy campaign.
The Hundred Years' War was a conflict between the kingdoms of England and France and a civil war in France during the
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AUGUST 3, 1460
James II of Scotland is killed by an exploding cannon at Roxburgh Castle.
James II was King of Scots from 1437 until his death in 1460. The eldest surviving son of James I of Scotland,
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AUGUST 3, 1903
Macedonian rebels in Kruševo proclaimed a republic, which existed for ten days before Ottoman forces destroyed the town.
The Internal Macedonian Revolutionary Organization, was a secret revolutionary society founded in the Ottoman territories in Europe, that operated in the late
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AUGUST 3, 1913
An agricultural workers' strike in Wheatland degenerated into a riot, becoming one of the first major farm-labor confrontations in California.
Wheatland is the second-largest city by population in Yuba County, California, United States. The population was 3,456 at the 2010 census, up
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AUGUST 3, 1936
African-American athlete Jesse Owens won the first of his four gold medals at the Berlin Olympics, dashing Nazi leaders' hopes of Aryan domination at the games.
African Americans, also known as Black Americans and formerly also called Afro-Americans, are an American racial and ethnic group, who as defined
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