Major Events
- 1492 Christopher Columbus, with Juan de la Cosa as second-in-command, sets sail on his first voyage with three ships: Santa María, Pinta, and Niña from Palos de la Frontera, Spain, for the “Indies”
- 1596 German astronomer and priest David Fabricius discovers the light variation of Mira, the first variable star
- 1914 Germany invades Belgium and declares war on France, beginning World War I
- 1934 Adolf Hitler merges the offices of German Chancellor and President, declaring himself “Führer” (leader)
- 1972 US Senate ratifies the Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty with the Soviet Union to limit the use of missile systems capable of defending against missile-delivered nuclear weapons
Aug 3 in Film & TV
- 1995 CNN en Español premieres
Aug 3 in Music
- 2017 Camila Cabello releases her single “Havana” (biggest song worldwide in 2018, 19 million copies sold)
Aug 3 in Sport
- 1936 American sprinter Jesse Owens wins the 100 m in 10.3 seconds in front of Adolf Hitler in a famous race at the Berlin Olympics, the first of four gold medals he wins at the Games
- 1949 Basketball Association of America (BAA) and National Basketball League (NBL) merge to form the National Basketball Association (NBA), with Maurice Podoloff elected as head of the new league
- 2017 Brazilian soccer forward Neymar transfers from FC Barcelona to Paris Saint-Germain for a world-record transfer fee of €222 million on a five-year contract
Did You Know?
First known letter is sent from North America by John Rut from St. John’s in Newfoundland
Famous Weddings
- 1824 Inventor Charles Goodyear (23) weds Clarissa Beecher
- 1932 Austro-Hungarian-American theatre and film director Otto Preminger (26) weds Marion Mill; divorce in 1949
- 2000 British PM Gordon Brown (49) weds Sarah Jane Macaulay (36) in North Queensferry, Fife
Famous Divorces
- 1979 American “All By Myself” singer-songwriter Eric Carmen (29) divorces wife Marcy Hill, after less than a year of marriage
- 1979 American professional boxer George Foreman (30) divorces Cynthia Lewis after more than a year of marriage
- 2012 Music legend Stevie Wonder (63) divorces fashion designer Kai Millard Morris due to irreconcilable differences after 11 years of marriage
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