more events on August 3
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2004
Statue of Liberty’s pedestal reopens to visitors after being closed following the 9/11 terrorist attacks.
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1990
The US commits naval forces to the Persian Gulf region in the wake of Iraq’s invasion of Kuwait.
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1977
Radio Shack unveils TRS-80 personal computer, which with Apple and Commodore would form the “1977 Trinity.” Its price and Radio Shack’s established retail outlets made it a bestseller for several years.
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1975
The Louisiana Superdome is dedicated.
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1972
Former Beatle Paul McCartney announces formation of his new group, Wings.
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1967
President Lyndon B. Johnson announces plans to send 45,000 more troops to Vietnam.
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1958
The first nuclear submarine, USS Nautilus, passes under the North Pole.
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1945
Chinese troops under American General Joseph Stilwell take the town of Myitkyina from the Japanese.
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1941
Martha Stewart, business magnate and television personality.
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1926
Tony Bennett, singer (“I Left My Heart in San Francisco”).
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1924
Leon Uris, writer whose works include Battle Cry and Exodus.
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1920
P.D. James (Phyllis Dorothy James), British mystery writer.
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1916
Sir Roger Casement is hanged for treason in England.
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1914
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1911
Airplanes are used for the first time in a military capacity when Italian planes reconnoiter Turkish lines near Tripoli.
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1909
Walter Van Tilburg Clark, Western novelist who wrote The Ox-Bow Incident.
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1908
Allan Allensworth files the site plan for the first African-American town, Allensworth, California.
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1905
Maggie Kuhn, social activist and founder of “The Gray Panthers.”
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1900
Ernie Pyle, World War II correspondent who wrote about the common soldier.
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1887
Rupert Brooke, English poet who mainly wrote about World War I.
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1882
Congress passes the Immigration Act, banning Chinese immigration for ten years.
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1867
Stanley Baldwin, British Prime Minister during the general strike of 1926.
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1864
Federal gunboats attack but do not capture Fort Gains, at the mouth of Mobile Bay, Alabama.
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1807
The trial of Aaron Burr begins. He is accused of plotting the secession of New England.
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1805
Muhammad Ali becomes the new ruler of Egypt.
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1692
French forces under Marshal Luxembourg defeat the English at the Battle of Steenkerque in the Netherlands.
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1610
Henry Hudson of England discovers a great bay on the east coast of Canada and names it for himself.
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1553
Mary Tudor, the new Queen of England, enters London.
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1546
French printer Etienne Dolet, accused of heresy, blasphemy and sedition, is hanged and burned at the stake for printing reformist literature.
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1492
Christopher Columbus leaves Spain on his voyage to the new world.
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1347
Six burghers of the surrounded French city of Calais surrender to Edward III of England in hopes of relieving the siege.