August 3
1492 - Christopher Columbus set sail from Palos, Spain on a voyage that took him to the present-day Americas.
1914 - Germany declared war on France during World War I.
1916 - Irish-born British diplomat Roger Casement, a strong advocate of independence for Ireland, was hanged for treason.
1923 - Vice President Calvin Coolidge was sworn in as the 30th president of the United States, one day after the death of President Warren G. Harding.
1958 - The nuclear-powered submarine Nautilus became the first vessel to cross the North Pole underwater.
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 a warning from President Ronald Reagan they would be fired, which they were.
1987 - The Iran-Contra hearings ended.
1993 - The U.S. Senate voted 96-3 to confirm Ruth Bader Ginsburg to become the second woman to serve on the United States Supreme Court.
1994 - Arkansas carried out the nation’s first triple execution in 32 years.
1994 - Stephen G. Breyer was sworn in as the Supreme Court's newest justice in a private ceremony at Chief Justice William H. Rehnquist's Vermont summer home.
2005 - Fourteen Marines from a Reserve unit in Ohio were killed in a roadside bombing in Iraq.
2014 - Israel withdrew most of its ground troops from the Gaza Strip in an apparent winding down of a nearly monthlong operation against Hamas that had left more than 1,800 Palestinians and more than 60 Israelis dead.
2017 - Senators introduced two bipartisan bills aimed at protecting Special Counsel Robert Mueller from being fired by President Donald Trump. (Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell said the effort was unnecessary, and that he wouldn’t let the legislation reach the floor.)
2017 - West Virginia Gov. Jim Justice announced he was switching parties to join the Republicans, a move that came as President Donald Trump visited his increasingly conservative state.
2018 - Las Vegas police said they were closing their investigation into the Oct. 1, 2017, 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.)
2021 - New York’s state attorney general said an investigation into Gov. Andrew Cuomo found that he had sexually harassed multiple current and former state government employees; the report brought increased pressure on Cuomo to resign, including pressure from President Joe Biden and other Democrats. (Cuomo resigned a week later.)
2021 - New York became the nation’s first big city to announce it would require proof of COVID-19 vaccination at restaurants, shows and gyms.
Birthdays
22 - Chandler Kinney (actress)
22 - Landry Bender (actress)
24 - Julia Tomasone (actress)
28 - Todd Gurley (football player)
30 - Karlie Kloss (model)
36 - Ashley Kelsey (reality star)
37 - Brent Kutzle (musician)
37 - Georgina Haig (actress)
38 - Jon Foster (actor)
38 - Whitney Duncan (singer)
38 - Ryan Lochte (swimmer)
39 - Mamie Gummer (actress)
43 - Evangeline Lilly (actress)
45 - Tom Brady (football player)
49 - Michael Ealy (actor)
50 - Brigid Brannagh (actress)
51 - Kristie Ray (reality star)
52 - Stephen Carpenter (musician)
59 - Isaiah Washington (actor)
59 - James Hetfield (singer)
61 - Lisa Ann Walter (actress)
63 - John C. McGinley (actor)
68 - Philip Casnoff (actor)
71 - Marcel Dionne (hockey player)
71 - Jay North (actor)
72 - JoMarie Payton (actress)
81 - Martha Stewart (TV host)
82 - Lance Alworth (football player)
82 - Martin Sheen (actor)
96 - Tony Bennett (singer)
97 - Marv Levy (football coach)
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Today in Sports History - August 3
1909 - Umpire Tim Hurst instigates a riot by spitting in the face of Philadelphia Athletics' first baseman Eddie Collins who had questioned a call; two weeks later Hurst was banned from baseball for life.
1921 - MLB Commissioner Kenesaw Landis hands out lifetime bans to eight Chicago White Sox players accused in 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 for the Cleveland Indians, going 7 innings in a 5-3 win over the Washington Senators.
1949 - The National Basketball Association (NBA) was formed through a merger of the Basketball Association of America and the National Basketball League.
1960 - For the only time in MLB history teams exchange managers as Detroit trades Jimmy Dykes (44-52) for Cleveland's Joe Gordon (49-46).
1961 - The Pittsburgh Pirates rout the St. Louis Cardinals 19-0, the largest lopsided shutout in National League history.
1979 - At age 67 years, 2 months and 7 days old, Sam Snead sets the record for oldest player to make the cut in a major, at the PGA Championship at Oakland Hills CC.
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-around competition at the Los Angeles Summer Olympics and becomes the first American woman to win an Olympics gymnastics medal.
1986 - Willie McCovey, Bobby Doerr and Ernie Lombardi are inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame.
1987 - Minnesota Twins pitcher Joe Niekro is caught with a file on the mound in a game against he California Angels; he his ejected and suspended for 10 games.
1989 - The Cincinnati Reds set an MLB record for most hits in the first inning of a game with 16 (leading to 14 runs scored) in an 18-1 rout of the Houston Astros.
1996 - Andre Agassi wins the men's singles tennis gold medal at the Atlanta Summer Olympic Games.
2001 - Olympic champion Gezahegne Abera of Ethiopia becomes the first athlete to achieve an Olympics-World Championships marathon double, winning in 2:12:42 to beat Kenya's Simon Biwott by just one-tenth of a second at the World Track & Field Championships in Edmonton, Canada.
2004 - St. Louis first baseman Albert Pujols becomes first player in MLB history to hit at least 30 HRs in each of his first 4 seasons as Cardinals beat Montreal, 10-6
2006 - Barry Bonds' 715th home run ball, which moved him past Babe Ruth for second all-time in MLB history, is sold at auction for $220,100.
2016 - The International Olympic Committee approves baseball/softball, karate, sport climbing, surfing and skateboarding to be included for the 2020 Olympic Games in Tokyo, Japan.
2021 - After taking herself out of several competitions at the Tokyo Games to focus on her mental health, U.S. gymnast Simone Biles returned to win a bronze medal in the balance beam.
1492 - Christopher Columbus set sail from Palos, Spain on a voyage that took him to the present-day Americas.
1914 - Germany declared war on France during World War I.
1916 - Irish-born British diplomat Roger Casement, a strong advocate of independence for Ireland, was hanged for treason.
1923 - Vice President Calvin Coolidge was sworn in as the 30th president of the United States, one day after the death of President Warren G. Harding.
1958 - The nuclear-powered submarine Nautilus became the first vessel to cross the North Pole underwater.
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 a warning from President Ronald Reagan they would be fired, which they were.
1987 - The Iran-Contra hearings ended.
1993 - The U.S. Senate voted 96-3 to confirm Ruth Bader Ginsburg to become the second woman to serve on the United States Supreme Court.
1994 - Arkansas carried out the nation’s first triple execution in 32 years.
1994 - Stephen G. Breyer was sworn in as the Supreme Court's newest justice in a private ceremony at Chief Justice William H. Rehnquist's Vermont summer home.
2005 - Fourteen Marines from a Reserve unit in Ohio were killed in a roadside bombing in Iraq.
2014 - Israel withdrew most of its ground troops from the Gaza Strip in an apparent winding down of a nearly monthlong operation against Hamas that had left more than 1,800 Palestinians and more than 60 Israelis dead.
2017 - Senators introduced two bipartisan bills aimed at protecting Special Counsel Robert Mueller from being fired by President Donald Trump. (Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell said the effort was unnecessary, and that he wouldn’t let the legislation reach the floor.)
2017 - West Virginia Gov. Jim Justice announced he was switching parties to join the Republicans, a move that came as President Donald Trump visited his increasingly conservative state.
2018 - Las Vegas police said they were closing their investigation into the Oct. 1, 2017, 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.)
2021 - New York’s state attorney general said an investigation into Gov. Andrew Cuomo found that he had sexually harassed multiple current and former state government employees; the report brought increased pressure on Cuomo to resign, including pressure from President Joe Biden and other Democrats. (Cuomo resigned a week later.)
2021 - New York became the nation’s first big city to announce it would require proof of COVID-19 vaccination at restaurants, shows and gyms.
Birthdays
22 - Chandler Kinney (actress)
22 - Landry Bender (actress)
24 - Julia Tomasone (actress)
28 - Todd Gurley (football player)
30 - Karlie Kloss (model)
36 - Ashley Kelsey (reality star)
37 - Brent Kutzle (musician)
37 - Georgina Haig (actress)
38 - Jon Foster (actor)
38 - Whitney Duncan (singer)
38 - Ryan Lochte (swimmer)
39 - Mamie Gummer (actress)
43 - Evangeline Lilly (actress)
45 - Tom Brady (football player)
49 - Michael Ealy (actor)
50 - Brigid Brannagh (actress)
51 - Kristie Ray (reality star)
52 - Stephen Carpenter (musician)
59 - Isaiah Washington (actor)
59 - James Hetfield (singer)
61 - Lisa Ann Walter (actress)
63 - John C. McGinley (actor)
68 - Philip Casnoff (actor)
71 - Marcel Dionne (hockey player)
71 - Jay North (actor)
72 - JoMarie Payton (actress)
81 - Martha Stewart (TV host)
82 - Lance Alworth (football player)
82 - Martin Sheen (actor)
96 - Tony Bennett (singer)
97 - Marv Levy (football coach)
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Today in Sports History - August 3
1909 - Umpire Tim Hurst instigates a riot by spitting in the face of Philadelphia Athletics' first baseman Eddie Collins who had questioned a call; two weeks later Hurst was banned from baseball for life.
1921 - MLB Commissioner Kenesaw Landis hands out lifetime bans to eight Chicago White Sox players accused in 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 for the Cleveland Indians, going 7 innings in a 5-3 win over the Washington Senators.
1949 - The National Basketball Association (NBA) was formed through a merger of the Basketball Association of America and the National Basketball League.
1960 - For the only time in MLB history teams exchange managers as Detroit trades Jimmy Dykes (44-52) for Cleveland's Joe Gordon (49-46).
1961 - The Pittsburgh Pirates rout the St. Louis Cardinals 19-0, the largest lopsided shutout in National League history.
1979 - At age 67 years, 2 months and 7 days old, Sam Snead sets the record for oldest player to make the cut in a major, at the PGA Championship at Oakland Hills CC.
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-around competition at the Los Angeles Summer Olympics and becomes the first American woman to win an Olympics gymnastics medal.
1986 - Willie McCovey, Bobby Doerr and Ernie Lombardi are inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame.
1987 - Minnesota Twins pitcher Joe Niekro is caught with a file on the mound in a game against he California Angels; he his ejected and suspended for 10 games.
1989 - The Cincinnati Reds set an MLB record for most hits in the first inning of a game with 16 (leading to 14 runs scored) in an 18-1 rout of the Houston Astros.
1996 - Andre Agassi wins the men's singles tennis gold medal at the Atlanta Summer Olympic Games.
2001 - Olympic champion Gezahegne Abera of Ethiopia becomes the first athlete to achieve an Olympics-World Championships marathon double, winning in 2:12:42 to beat Kenya's Simon Biwott by just one-tenth of a second at the World Track & Field Championships in Edmonton, Canada.
2004 - St. Louis first baseman Albert Pujols becomes first player in MLB history to hit at least 30 HRs in each of his first 4 seasons as Cardinals beat Montreal, 10-6
2006 - Barry Bonds' 715th home run ball, which moved him past Babe Ruth for second all-time in MLB history, is sold at auction for $220,100.
2016 - The International Olympic Committee approves baseball/softball, karate, sport climbing, surfing and skateboarding to be included for the 2020 Olympic Games in Tokyo, Japan.
2021 - After taking herself out of several competitions at the Tokyo Games to focus on her mental health, U.S. gymnast Simone Biles returned to win a bronze medal in the balance beam.
