Today In History. What Happened This Day In History
A Timeline Of Events That Occurred On This Day In History
A chronological timetable of historical events that occurred on this day in history. Historical facts of the day in the areas of military, politics, science, music, sports, arts, entertainment and more. Discover what happened today in history.
Today in History
August 3
| 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. | |
| 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. | |
| 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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Born on August 3 |
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| 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. | |
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