August 03

Wednesday 03, 2005:

President Maaouya Ould Sid'Ahmed Taya of Mauritania is overthrown in a military coup while attending the funeral of King Fahd in Saudi Arabia.

Thursday 03, 2000:

George W. Bush accepts the presidential nomination at the Republican National Convention in Philadelphia.

Sunday 03, 1997:

Oued El-Had and Mezouara massacre in Algeria; 40-76 villagers killed.

Monday 03, 1992:

The Los Angeles Dodgers win their 3000th game since moving to Los Angeles.

Friday 03, 1990:

37.1°C (98.8°F) at Cheltenham in Gloucestershire

Wednesday 03, 1983:

Senegalese opposition parties, under the leadership of Mamadou Dia, launches the Antiimperialist Action Front-Suxxali Reew Mi.

Monday 03, 1981:

In the United States, Professional Air Traffic Controllers Organization walks off the job. All 13,000 members will eventually be fired by President Ronald Reagan.

Wednesday 03, 1977:

United States Senate Hearing on MKULTRA.

Sunday 03, 1975:

A privately chartered Boeing 707 impacts the mountainside near Agadir, Morocco killing 188.

Friday 03, 1973:

R&B singer Stevie Wonder releases the classic album Innervisions.

Thursday 03, 1972:

U.S. Senate ratifies the Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty.

Wednesday 03, 1960:

Niger gains independence from France.

Sunday 03, 1958:

The nuclear submarine USS Nautilus travels beneath the Arctic ice cap.

Tuesday 03, 1948:

Whittaker Chambers accuses Alger Hiss of being a communist and a spy for the Soviet Union.

Saturday 03, 1946:

National Basketball Association is founded in the United States.

Saturday 03, 1940:

Second World War: Italy invades British Somaliland.

Friday 03, 1923:

Calvin Coolidge is inaugurated as the 30th President of the United States.

Thursday 03, 1916:

First World War: The Battle of Romani is fought between forces of the British Empire and the Ottoman Empire.

Monday 03, 1914:

First World War: Germany declares war against France.

Friday 03, 1900:

Firestone Tire & Rubber Company founded.

Friday 03, 1860:

The Second Maori War begins in New Zealand.

Sunday 03, 1783:

Mount Asama erupts in Japan, killing 35,000 people.

Wednesday 03, 1678:

Robert LaSalle builds the Griffon, the first known ship built in America.

Thursday 03, 1645:

The Second Battle of Nördlingen is fought between the forces of France and the Holy Roman Empire.

Friday 03, 1635:

The third of the Tokugawa shoguns, Iemitsu, establishes the system of alternate attendance by which the feudal daimy? are required to spend one year at Edo Castle in Tokyo and one year back home at their feudal manor, while their families remained in Tokyo as virtual political hostages. (Traditional Japanese Date: June 21, 1635).

Wednesday 03, 1492:

The Jews of Spain are expelled by the Catholic Monarchs.

Friday 03, 435:

Deposed Patriarch of Constantinople Nestorius, considered the originator of the Christological "heresy" (at the time) known as Nestorianism, was exiled by Byzantine Emperor Theodosius II to a monastery in Egypt.

Sunday 03, 8:

Roman general Tiberius defeats Dalmatians on the river Bathinus.

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