1943 – Gen. George S. Patton verbally abused and slapped a private. Later, Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower ordered him to apologize for the incident.
0008 – Roman Empire general Tiberius defeats Dalmatians on the river Bathinus.
0435 – Deposed Patriarch of Constantinople Nestorius, considered the originator of Nestorianism, was exiled by Byzantine Emperor Theodosius II to a monastery in Egypt.
0881 – Battle of Saucourt-en-Vimeu, where Louis III of France defeated the Vikings, an event celebrated in the poem Ludwigslied
1108 – Louis VI “The Fat” King of France, crowned at the cathedral in Orléans after his half brother prevents him reaching Reims
1492 – Christopher Columbus left Palos, Spain with three ships. The voyage led him to what is now known as the Americas. He reached the Bahamas on October 12.
1492 – The Jews of Spain are expelled by the Catholic Monarchs.
1529 – “Peace of the Ladies” (Treaty of Cambrai) made between Holy Roman Empire and the French, negotiated by Louise of Savoy and Margaret of Austria
1635 – The third of the Tokugawa shoguns, Iemitsu, establishes the system of alternate attendance (sankin kotai) 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
1645 – Thirty Years’ War: Second Battle of Nrdlingen (Battle of Allerheim) – A French army under the command of Louis de Bourbon, Duc d’Enghien and Marshal Henri, Vicomte de Turenne attacks and defeats an Imperial army, led by Field Marshal Franz Baron (Freiherr) von Mercy at Alerheim, near Nrdlingen, Germany.
1750 – Christopher Dock completed the first book of teaching methods. It was titled “A Simple and Thoroughly Prepared School Management.”
1777 – During the Siege of Fort Stanwix the first U.S. flag was officially flown during battle.
1797 – Emperor Francis I permits Jews who served in military in “Countries of Bohemian Crown” to marry non Jews
1860 – The Second Maori War begins in New Zealand.
1861 – First manned balloon from a ship used to observe Confederate artillery position at Hampton Roads, VA
1882 – Congress passes first law restricting immigration
1900 – Firestone Tire & Rubber Co. was founded.
1907 – Emperor Wilhelm (Germany) meets with Tsar Nicholas (Russia) to discuss Germany’s plan to build a railroad to Baghdad; the discussion helps move Russia towards Britain and eventually the Triple Alliance
1913 – Wheatland Hop Riot on a California farm, 4 die in one of the first farm labour disputes
1914 – Germany declared war on France. The next day World War I began when Britain declared war on Germany.
1923 – Calvin Coolidge was sworn in as the 30th president of the U.S. after the sudden death of President Harding.
1933 – The Mickey Mouse Watch was introduced for the price of $2.75.
1934 – Three days of anti-Jewish rioting in Constantine, Algeria leave 23 Jews killed and 35 wounded. The pogroms are traced to Radio-Berlin and Radio-Stuttgart Nazi broadcasts.
1936 – The U.S. State Department advised Americans to leave Spain due to the Spanish Civil War.
1936 – Jesse Owens won the first of his four Olympic gold medals.
1943 – Gen. George S. Patton verbally abused and slapped a private. Later, Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower ordered him to apologize for the incident.
1946 – World’s first theme park opens its doors in in Santa Claus, Indiana
1948 – Whittaker Chambers accuses Alger Hiss of being a communist and a spy for the Soviet Union
1956 – Bedloe’s Island had its name changed to Liberty Island.
1958 – The Nautilus became the first vessel to cross the North Pole underwater. The mission was known as “Operation Sunshine.”
1960 – Niger gains independence from France
1967 – 45,000 US soldiers sent to Vietnam
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
1977 – United States Senate Hearing on MKULTRA. https://www.history.com/mkultra-operation-midnight-climax-cia-lsd-experiments
1981 – U.S. traffic controllers with PATCO, the Professional Air Traffic Controllers Organization, went on strike. They were fired just as U.S. President Reagan had warned.
1985 – Mail service returned to a nudist colony in Paradise Lake, FL. Residents promised that they’d wear clothes or stay out of sight when the mailperson came to deliver.
1988 – The Iran-Contra hearings ended. No ties were made between U.S. President Reagan and the Nicaraguan Rebels.
1988 – The Soviet Union released Mathias Rust. He had been taken into custody on May 28, 1987 for landing a plane in Moscow’s Red Square.
1990 – Thousands of Iraqi troops pushed within a few miles of the border of Saudi Arabia. This heightened world concerns that the invasion of Kuwait could spread.
1992 – The U.S. Senate voted to restrict and eventually end the testing of nuclear weapons.
1992 – Russia and Ukraine agreed to put the Black Sea Fleet under joint command. The agreement was to last for three years.
1995 – Eyad Ismoil was flown from Jordan to the U.S. to face charges that he had driven the van that blew up in New York’s World Trade Center.
1996 – General William F. Garrison accepted responsibility for the outcome of the 1993 raid in Somalia, and he retired from military service.
2001 – The Real IRA detonate a car bomb in Ealing, London, U.K injuring seven people
2004 – In New York, the Statue of Liberty re-opened to the public. The site had been closed since the terrorist attacks on the U.S. on September 11, 2001.
2004 – NASA launched the spacecraft Messenger. The 6 1/2 year journey was planned to arrive at the planet Mercury in March 2011. On April 30, 2015, Messenger crashed into the surface of Mercury after sending back more than 270,000 pictures.
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.
2009 – Georgia accuses Russia of trying to seize more of its territory as the anniversary of the 2008 war between the two countries approaches.
2009 – Bolivia became the first South American country to declare the right of indigenous people to govern themselves.
2013 – 80 people are killed in a wave of insurgency across Iraq
2013 – 9 children are killed by a suicide bombing in Jalalabad, Afghanistan
2014 – The Israeli Defence Force remove much of its ground forces from the Gaza Strip following the destruction of 32 tunnels built by Hamas and other militants
2019 – Suspected domestic terrorist shoots and kills 22 and injures 24 at a Walmart store in El Paso, Texas https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/03/us/el-paso-shooting.html
2020 – Spain’s former King Juan Carlos announces he will go into exile abroad amid his implication in a corruption inquiry
2022 – Cells of recently dead pigs brought back to life by researchers at Yale University, with huge implications for organ transplants and stroke sufferers, as well as ethical questions over definition of death
REFERENCE: history.net, onthisday.com, thepeopleshistory.com, timeanddate.com, scopesys.com, on-this-day.com
