August 3
1492 - Christopher Columbus set sail from Palos, Spain.
1914 - Germany declared war on France during World War I.
1914 - At the outbreak of World War I, British Foreign Secretary Edward Grey remarked: "The lamps are going out all over Europe; we shall see them lit again in our lifetime."
1923 - Vice President Calvin Coolidge was sworn in as the 30th president of the United States one day after President Warren G. Harding died of a heart attack.
1943 - Gen. George S. Patton slapped a private at an army hospital in Sicily, accusing him of cowardice.
1948 - Whittaker Chambers, a former Communist, publicly accused former State Department official Alger Hiss of having been part of a Communist underground, a charge Hiss denied.
1958 - The nuclear-powered submarine Nautilus became the first vessel to cross the North Pole underwater.
1966 - Comedian Lenny Bruce, whose raunchy brand of satire and dark humor landed him in trouble with the law, was found dead in his Los Angeles home; he was 40.
1972 - The U.S. Senate ratified the Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty between the United States and the Soviet Union. (The U.S. unilaterally withdrew from the treaty in 2002.)
1981 - U.S. air traffic controllers went on strike, despite warnings from President Ronald Reagan that they would be fired for doing so.
1987 - The Iran-Contra hearings closed with none of the 29 witnesses tying President Ronald Reagan directly to the diversion of arms-sales profits to Nicaraguan rebels.
1993 - The Senate voted 96-3 to confirm Supreme Court nominee Ruth Bader Ginsburg.
1994 - Stephen G. Breyer was sworn in as an associate justice of the United States Supreme Court.
1994 - Arkansas carried out the nation’s first triple execution in 32 years.
2004 - The Statue of Liberty pedestal in New York City reopened to the public for the first time since the 9/11 attacks.
2011 - Former Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak denied all charges against him as he went on trial for alleged corruption and complicity in the deaths of protesters who'd helped drive him from power.
2016 - President Barack Obama cut short the sentences of 214 federal inmates, including 67 life sentences, in what the White House called the largest batch of commutations on a single day in more than a century.
2018 - Las Vegas police said they were closing their investigation into the Oct. 1 shooting that left 58 people dead at a country music festival without a definitive answer for why Stephen Paddock unleashed gunfire from a hotel suite onto the concert crowd.
2019 - A gunman opened fire at a Walmart store in El Paso, Texas, leaving 22 people dead; prosecutors said Patrick Crusius targeted Mexicans in hopes of scaring Latinos into leaving the U.S., and that he had outlined the plot in a screed published online shortly before the attack. (A man who was wounded in the shooting died in April 2020 after months in the hospital, raising the death toll to 23. Crusius has pleaded not guilty to state murder charges; he also faces federal hate crime and gun charges.)
Birthdays
21 - Landry Bender (actress)
21 - Chandler Kinney (actress)
23 - Julia Tomasone (actress)
27 - Todd Gurley (football player)
29 - Karlie Kloss (model)
31 - Jourdan Dunn (model)
36 - Tanya Fischer (actress)
36 - Georgina Haig (actress)
37 - Jon Foster (actor)
37 - Whitney Duncan (country singer)
37 - Ryan Lochte (swimmer)
38 - Mamie Gummer (actress)
41 - Hannah Simone (actress)
42 - Evangeline Lilly (actress)
44 - Tom Brady (football player)
48 - Michael Ealy (actor)
49 - Brigid Brannagh (actress)
58 - Isaiah Washington (actor)
58 - Lisa Ann Walter (actress)
62 - John C. McGinley (actor)
67 - Philip Casnoff (actor)
70 - Marcel Dionne (hockey player)
70 - Jay North (actor)
71 - JoMarie Payton (actress)
80 - Martha Stewart (lifestyle guru)
81 - Lance Alworth (football player)
81 - Martin Sheen (actor)
95 - Tony Bennett (singer)
96 - Marv Levy (football coach)
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Today in Sports History - August 3
1909 - MLB umpire Tim Hurst instigates a riot by spitting in the face of Philadelphia Athletics' second baseman Eddie Collins who had questioned a call; two weeks later Hurst was banned for life.
1921 - MLB Commissioner Kenesaw Landis hands out lifetime bans to eight members of the Chicago White Sox accused in the "Black Sox" scandal despite their acquittal by a Chicago jury.
1936 - Jesse Owens of the United States won the first of his four gold medals at the Berlin Olympics as he took the 100-meter sprint.
1948 - Negro League veteran pitcher Satchel Paige, at age 42, debuts in Cleveland after a controversial signing, going 7 innings in a 5-3 win over the Washington Senators.
1949 - The National Basketball Association was formed through a merger of the Basketball Association of America and the National Basketball League. Members of the league were: Syracuse Nationals, New York Knicks, Washington Capitols, Philadelphia Warriors, Baltimore Bullets, Boston Celtics, Minneapolis Lakers, Rochester Royals, Fort Wayne Pistons, Chicago Stags, St. Louis Bombers, Indianapolis Olympians, Anderson Packers, Tri Cities Blackhawks, Sheboygan Red Skins, Waterloo Hawks and the Denver Nuggets.
1960 - For just the second time in history, two MLB franchises trade managers as the Detroit Tigers send skipper Jimmy Dykes to Cleveland for Joe Gordon.
1970 - The second ever NFL work stoppage ends with NFL and Players' Association agreeing to a 4-year, $19.1 million deal.
1980 - Al Kaline, Duke Snider, Chuck Klein and Tom Yawkey are inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame.
1984 - Mary Lou Retton scores a 10 on her final vault to win the individual all-round competition in Los Angeles and become first American woman to win an Olympic gymnastics medal.
1986 - Willie McCovey, Bobby Doerr and Ernie Lombardi are inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame.
1996 - American Andre Agassi wins the men's tennis gold medal at the Summer Olympic Games in Atlanta.
2004 - Albert Pujols of the St. Louis Cardinals becomes the first player in MLB history to hit at least 30 home runs in each of his first four seasons.
2006 - Barry Bonds' 715th home run ball (which moved him past Babe Ruth into second place on the all-time list), sold at auction for $220,100.
2011 - Former NFL star and actor Bubba Smith died at age 66.
2012 - American swimmer Michael Phelps wins the 100 meter butterfly at the Summer Games in London to increase his all-time Olympic gold medal tally to 17.
1492 - Christopher Columbus set sail from Palos, Spain.
1914 - Germany declared war on France during World War I.
1914 - At the outbreak of World War I, British Foreign Secretary Edward Grey remarked: "The lamps are going out all over Europe; we shall see them lit again in our lifetime."
1923 - Vice President Calvin Coolidge was sworn in as the 30th president of the United States one day after President Warren G. Harding died of a heart attack.
1943 - Gen. George S. Patton slapped a private at an army hospital in Sicily, accusing him of cowardice.
1948 - Whittaker Chambers, a former Communist, publicly accused former State Department official Alger Hiss of having been part of a Communist underground, a charge Hiss denied.
1958 - The nuclear-powered submarine Nautilus became the first vessel to cross the North Pole underwater.
1966 - Comedian Lenny Bruce, whose raunchy brand of satire and dark humor landed him in trouble with the law, was found dead in his Los Angeles home; he was 40.
1972 - The U.S. Senate ratified the Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty between the United States and the Soviet Union. (The U.S. unilaterally withdrew from the treaty in 2002.)
1981 - U.S. air traffic controllers went on strike, despite warnings from President Ronald Reagan that they would be fired for doing so.
1987 - The Iran-Contra hearings closed with none of the 29 witnesses tying President Ronald Reagan directly to the diversion of arms-sales profits to Nicaraguan rebels.
1993 - The Senate voted 96-3 to confirm Supreme Court nominee Ruth Bader Ginsburg.
1994 - Stephen G. Breyer was sworn in as an associate justice of the United States Supreme Court.
1994 - Arkansas carried out the nation’s first triple execution in 32 years.
2004 - The Statue of Liberty pedestal in New York City reopened to the public for the first time since the 9/11 attacks.
2011 - Former Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak denied all charges against him as he went on trial for alleged corruption and complicity in the deaths of protesters who'd helped drive him from power.
2016 - President Barack Obama cut short the sentences of 214 federal inmates, including 67 life sentences, in what the White House called the largest batch of commutations on a single day in more than a century.
2018 - Las Vegas police said they were closing their investigation into the Oct. 1 shooting that left 58 people dead at a country music festival without a definitive answer for why Stephen Paddock unleashed gunfire from a hotel suite onto the concert crowd.
2019 - A gunman opened fire at a Walmart store in El Paso, Texas, leaving 22 people dead; prosecutors said Patrick Crusius targeted Mexicans in hopes of scaring Latinos into leaving the U.S., and that he had outlined the plot in a screed published online shortly before the attack. (A man who was wounded in the shooting died in April 2020 after months in the hospital, raising the death toll to 23. Crusius has pleaded not guilty to state murder charges; he also faces federal hate crime and gun charges.)
Birthdays
21 - Landry Bender (actress)
21 - Chandler Kinney (actress)
23 - Julia Tomasone (actress)
27 - Todd Gurley (football player)
29 - Karlie Kloss (model)
31 - Jourdan Dunn (model)
36 - Tanya Fischer (actress)
36 - Georgina Haig (actress)
37 - Jon Foster (actor)
37 - Whitney Duncan (country singer)
37 - Ryan Lochte (swimmer)
38 - Mamie Gummer (actress)
41 - Hannah Simone (actress)
42 - Evangeline Lilly (actress)
44 - Tom Brady (football player)
48 - Michael Ealy (actor)
49 - Brigid Brannagh (actress)
58 - Isaiah Washington (actor)
58 - Lisa Ann Walter (actress)
62 - John C. McGinley (actor)
67 - Philip Casnoff (actor)
70 - Marcel Dionne (hockey player)
70 - Jay North (actor)
71 - JoMarie Payton (actress)
80 - Martha Stewart (lifestyle guru)
81 - Lance Alworth (football player)
81 - Martin Sheen (actor)
95 - Tony Bennett (singer)
96 - Marv Levy (football coach)
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Today in Sports History - August 3
1909 - MLB umpire Tim Hurst instigates a riot by spitting in the face of Philadelphia Athletics' second baseman Eddie Collins who had questioned a call; two weeks later Hurst was banned for life.
1921 - MLB Commissioner Kenesaw Landis hands out lifetime bans to eight members of the Chicago White Sox accused in the "Black Sox" scandal despite their acquittal by a Chicago jury.
1936 - Jesse Owens of the United States won the first of his four gold medals at the Berlin Olympics as he took the 100-meter sprint.
1948 - Negro League veteran pitcher Satchel Paige, at age 42, debuts in Cleveland after a controversial signing, going 7 innings in a 5-3 win over the Washington Senators.
1949 - The National Basketball Association was formed through a merger of the Basketball Association of America and the National Basketball League. Members of the league were: Syracuse Nationals, New York Knicks, Washington Capitols, Philadelphia Warriors, Baltimore Bullets, Boston Celtics, Minneapolis Lakers, Rochester Royals, Fort Wayne Pistons, Chicago Stags, St. Louis Bombers, Indianapolis Olympians, Anderson Packers, Tri Cities Blackhawks, Sheboygan Red Skins, Waterloo Hawks and the Denver Nuggets.
1960 - For just the second time in history, two MLB franchises trade managers as the Detroit Tigers send skipper Jimmy Dykes to Cleveland for Joe Gordon.
1970 - The second ever NFL work stoppage ends with NFL and Players' Association agreeing to a 4-year, $19.1 million deal.
1980 - Al Kaline, Duke Snider, Chuck Klein and Tom Yawkey are inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame.
1984 - Mary Lou Retton scores a 10 on her final vault to win the individual all-round competition in Los Angeles and become first American woman to win an Olympic gymnastics medal.
1986 - Willie McCovey, Bobby Doerr and Ernie Lombardi are inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame.
1996 - American Andre Agassi wins the men's tennis gold medal at the Summer Olympic Games in Atlanta.
2004 - Albert Pujols of the St. Louis Cardinals becomes the first player in MLB history to hit at least 30 home runs in each of his first four seasons.
2006 - Barry Bonds' 715th home run ball (which moved him past Babe Ruth into second place on the all-time list), sold at auction for $220,100.
2011 - Former NFL star and actor Bubba Smith died at age 66.
2012 - American swimmer Michael Phelps wins the 100 meter butterfly at the Summer Games in London to increase his all-time Olympic gold medal tally to 17.
