| 1347 |
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Six burghers of the surrounded French city of Calais surrender to Edward III of England in hopes of relieving the siege. |
| 1492 |
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Christopher Columbus leaves Spain on his voyage to the new world. |
| 1546 |
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French printer Etienne Dolet, accused of heresy, blasphemy and sedition, is hanged and burned at the stake for printing reformist literature. |
| 1553 |
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Mary Tudor, the new Queen of England, enters London. |
| 1610 |
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Henry Hudson of England discovers a great bay on the east coast of Canada and names it for himself. |
| 1692 |
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French forces under Marshal Luxembourg defeat the English at the Battle of Steenkerke in the Netherlands. |
| 1805 |
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Mohammed Ali becomes the new ruler of Egypt. |
| 1807 |
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The trial of Aaron Burr begins. He is accused of plotting the secession of New England. |
| 1864 |
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Federal gunboats attack but do not capture Fort Gains, at the mouth of Mobile Bay, Alabama. |
| 1882 |
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Congress passes the Immigration Act, banning Chinese immigration for ten years. |
| 1908 |
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Allan Allensworth files the site plan for the first African-American town, Allensworth, California. |
| 1911 |
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Airplanes are used for the first time in a military capacity when Italian planes reconnoiter Turkish lines near Tripoli. |
| 1914 |
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Germany declares war on France. |
| 1916 |
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Sir Roger Casement is hanged for treason in England. |
| 1945 |
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Chinese troops under American General Joseph Stilwell take the town of Myitkyina from the Japanese. |
| 1958 |
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The first nuclear submarine USS Nautilus passes under the North Pole. |
| 1967 |
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President Lyndon B. Johnson announces plans to send 45,000 more troops to Vietnam. |
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Born on August 3 |
| 1867 |
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Stanley Baldwin, British Prime Minister during the general strike of 1926. |
| 1887 |
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Rupert Brooke, English poet who mainly wrote about World War I. |
| 1900 |
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Ernie Pyle, World War II correspondent who wrote about the common soldier. |
| 1905 |
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Maggie Kuhn, social activist and founder of "The Gray Panthers." |
| 1909 |
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Walter Van Tilberg, Western novelist who wrote The Ox-Bow Incident. |
| 1920 |
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P.D. James (Phyllis Dorothy James), British mystery writer. |
| 1924 |
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Leon Uris, writer whose works include Battle Cry and Exodus. |
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