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• 1492 - Christopher Columbus sets sail from Palos, Spain.
• 1492 - The Jews were expelled from Spain
• 1678 - Robert LaSalle builds 1st ship in America, Griffon.
• 1860 - Second Maori War begins.
• 1900 - Firestone Tire & Rubber Company founded.
• 1914 - Germany declares war against France.
• 1916 - Sir Roger Casement hanged for his part in the Easter Rising.
• 1916 - Battle of Romani
• 1923 - Calvin Coolidge is inaugurated as the 30th President of the United States.
• 1940 - Italy invades British Somaliland.
• 1946 - National Basketball Association founded.
• 1948 - Whittaker Chambers accuses Alger Hiss of being a communist and a spy for the Soviet Union.
• 1949 - National Basketball Association formed.
• 1958 - nuclear submarine USS Nautilus travels beneath the Arctic ice cap.
• 1960 - Niger gains independence from France.
• 1972 - U.S Senate ratifies Anti-ballistic missile treaty.
• 1975 - A privately chartered Boeing 707 impacts the mountainside near Agadir, [Morocco]] killing 188
• 1981 - Professional Air Traffic Controllers Organization walks off the job. All 13,000 members will eventually be fired by President Ronald Reagan.
• 2000 - George W. Bush accepted the Republican presidential nomination at the party's convention in Philadelphia.

Births

• 1753 - Charles Stanhope, inventor of the calculator
• 1770 - King Friedrich Wilhelm III of Prussia (+ 1840)
• 1803 - Joseph Paxton, landscape gardener
• 1823 - Union General Thomas F. Meagher
• 1833 - Auguste Schmidt, feminist and teacher (+ 1902)
• 1867 - Stanley Baldwin, British Prime Minister (+ 1947)
• 1872 - King Haakon VII of Norway (+ 1957)
• 1887 - Rupert Brooke, poet
• 1900 - Ernie Pyle, war correspondent (+ 1945)
• 1900 - John Scopes, defendant in the Monkey Trial
• 1901 - Stefan Wyszynski, primate of Poland (+ 1981)
• 1904 - Clifford D. Simak, science fiction author, (+ 1988)
• 1918 - Les Elgart, musician, bandleader
• 1920 - P.D. James, novelist
• 1924 - Leon Uris, novelist
• 1926 - Tony Bennett, singer
• 1935 - Georgi Shonin, cosmonaut
• 1936 - Edward Petherbridge, actor
• 1937 - Diane Wakoski, poet
• 1938 - Terry Wogan, presenter
• 1940 - Martin Sheen, actor
• 1940 - Lance Alworth, professional football player
• 1941 - Martha Stewart, home economist
• 1946 - Jack Straw, British politician
• 1948 - Jean-Pierre Raffarin, Prime Minister of France
• 1950 - John Landis, film director
• 1951 - Marcel Dionne, professional ice hockey player
• 1952 - Osvaldo Ardiles, footballerer
• 1963 - James Hetfield, rock and roll musician, member of Metallica
• 1986 - Prince Louis Xavier Marie Guillaume, Prince of Luxembourg and of Nassau.

Deaths

• 1721 - Grinling Gibbons, master wood-worker
• 1797 - Jeffrey Amherst, British military commander
• 1879 - Joseph Severn, English painter
• 1924 - Joseph Conrad, writer
• 1929 - Emil Berliner, telephone and recording pioneer
• 1929 - Thorstein Veblen, economist
• 1954 - Colette, novelist, playwright
• 1964 - Flannery O'Connor, novelist
• 1966 - Lenny Bruce, comedian
• 1977 - Alfred Lunt, actor
• 1977 - Archbishop Makarios of Cyprus
• 1983 - Carolyn Jones, actress
• 1995 - Ida Lupino, actress, director
• 2002 - Holly Wells and Jessica Chapman, child- murder victims (Missing from this date; exact date of death not yet established, but believed to be August 3).

Holidays and observances

• Equatorial Guinea - Armed Forces Day
• Niger - Independence Day

August 2 - August 4 - July 3 - September 3 -- listing of all days

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