Events
8 – Roman Empire general Tiberius defeats the Dalmatae on the river Bathinus.
435 – Deposed Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople Nestorius, considered the originator of Nestorianism, is exiled by Roman Emperor Theodosius II to a monastery in Egypt.
881 – Battle of Saucourt-en-Vimeu: Louis III of France defeats the Vikings, an event celebrated in the poem Ludwigslied.
1031 – Olaf II of Norway is canonized as Saint Olaf by Grimketel, the English Bishop of Selsey.
1342 – The Siege of Algeciras commences during the Spanish Reconquista.
1492: Italian explorer Christopher Columbus sets sail from the Spanish port of Palos in command of three ships—the Santa Maria, the Pinta, and the Nina—on a journey to find a western sea route to China, India, and the fabled gold and spice islands of Asia.
1527 – The first known letter from North America is sent by John Rut while at St. John's, Newfoundland.
1601 – Long War: Austria captures Transylvania in the Battle of Goroszló.
1645 – Thirty Years' War: The Second Battle of Nördlingen sees French forces defeating those of the Holy Roman Empire.
1678 – Robert LaSalle builds the Le Griffon, the first known ship built on the Great Lakes.
1778 – The theatre La Scala is inaugurated.
1795 – Treaty of Greenville is signed.
1811 – First ascent of Jungfrau, third highest summit in the Bernese Alps by brothers Johann Rudolf and Hieronymus Meyer.
1852 – Harvard University wins the first Boat Race between Yale University and Harvard. The race is also the first American intercollegiate athletic event.
1860 – The Second Maori War begins in New Zealand.
1882 – US Congress passes 1st law restricting immigration.
1900 – The Firestone Tire and Rubber Company is founded.
1903 – Macedonian rebels in Kruševo proclaim the Kruševo Republic, which exists only for ten days before Ottoman Turks lay waste to the town.
1907 – Judge Kenesaw Mountain Landis fines Standard Oil of Indiana a record $29.4 million for illegal rebating to freight carriers; the conviction and fine are later reversed on appeal.
1913 – A major labour dispute, known as the Wheatland hop riot, starts in Wheatland, California.
1914 – World War I: Germany declares war against France.
1921 – Major League Baseball Commissioner Kenesaw Mountain Landis confirms the ban of the eight Chicago Black Sox, the day after they were acquitted by a Chicago court.
1923 – President Warren G. Harding dies, making Vice President Calvin Coolidge the 30th US President.
1929 – Jiddu Krishnamurti, tagged as the messianic "World Teacher", shocks the Theosophy movement by dissolving the Order of the Star, the organisation built to support him.
1936 – Jesse Owens wins the 100 meter dash, defeating Ralph Metcalfe, at the Berlin Olympics.
1936 – A fire wipes out Kursha-2 in the Meshchera Lowlands, Ryazan Oblast, Russia, killing 1,200 and leaving only 20 survivors.
1940 – World War II: Italian forces begin the invasion of British Somaliland.
1946 – Santa Claus Land, the world's first themed amusement park, opens in Santa Claus, Indiana, United States.
1948 – Whittaker Chambers accuses Alger Hiss of being a communist and a spy for the Soviet Union.
1949 – The National Basketball Association (NBA) was formed when the Basketball Association of America (BBA) and the National Basketball League (NBL) merged.
1958 – The nuclear submarine USS Nautilus travels beneath the Arctic ice cap.
1959 – Portugal's state police force PIDE fires upon striking workers in Bissau, Portuguese Guinea, killing over 50 people.
1960 – Niger gains independence from France.
1961 – The New Democratic Party of Canada is founded by the merger of the Co-operative Commonwealth Federation and the Canadian Labour Congress.
1967 – U.S. President Johnson asked Congress to temporarily increase individual and corporate income taxes by 10 percent for the 1968 tax year and announced that he had approved sending an additional 45,000 American troops to fight in the Vietnam War before June 30, 1968, bringing the total number of U.S. personnel in South Vietnam to 525,000.
1972 – The United States Senate ratifies the Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty.
1977 – The United States Senate begins its hearing on Project MKUltra.
1977 – Tandy Corporation announces the TRS-80, one of the world's first mass-produced personal computers.
1981 – Senegalese opposition parties, under the leadership of Mamadou Dia, launch the Antiimperialist Action Front – Suxxali Reew Mi.
1997 – Oued El-Had and Mezouara massacre in Algeria; a total of 116 villagers killed, 40 in Oued El-Had and 76 in Mezouara.
2004 – The pedestal of the Statue of Liberty reopens after being closed since the September 11 attacks.
2005 – President of Mauritania Maaouya Ould Sid'Ahmed Taya is overthrown in a military coup while attending the funeral of King Fahd in Saudi Arabia.
2005 – Mahmoud Ahmadinejad becomes President of Iran.
2007 – Former Deputy Director of the Chilean secret police Raúl Iturriaga is captured after having been on the run following a conviction for kidnapping.
2010 – Widespread rioting erupts in Karachi, Pakistan, after the assassination of a local politician, leaving at least 85 dead and at least 17 billion Pakistani rupees (US$200 million) in damage.
Saints' Days and Holy Days
Traditional Western
Contemporary Western
Gamaliel (finding of relics, in Roman Martyrology)
Lydia of Thyatira
Nicodemus
Olaf II of Norway (Translation of the relic)
Stephen (Discovery of the relic)
Waltheof of Melrose
Lydia of Thyatira
Nicodemus
Olaf II of Norway (Translation of the relic)
Stephen (Discovery of the relic)
Waltheof of Melrose
Anglican, Episcopal, Lutheran
Joanna, Mary, and Salome, myrrh-bearing women (Lutheran Church)
George Freeman Bragg, W. E. B. Du Bois (Episcopal Church (USA))
George Freeman Bragg, W. E. B. Du Bois (Episcopal Church (USA))
Eastern Orthodox
August 3 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
Holy Myrrh-bearer Salome (1st century)
Hieromartyr Stephen, Pope of Rome, and Companions (257)
Venerable Saints Isaac (383), Dalmatius, and Faustus (5th century), ascetics of the Dalmatian Monastery at Constantinople.
Protomartyr Rajden (Razhdenes) of Tsromi and Nikozi, Georgia (457)
Saint Cosmas of Palestine, eunuch and hermit (6th century)
Martyr Olympios the Prefect (Olympius the Eparch), Byzantine noble martyred under the Persian King Chosroes II for confessing the Orthodox Faith (c. 610-641)
Saint John of Patalaria Monastery, Confessor and Abbot (8th-9th centuries)
Venerable Theoclita (Theokliti) the Wonderworker, of Optimaton (Theme of the Optimatoi) (ca. 842)
Saints John the Monastic, and John the New, Bishops of Ephesus.
Venerable Nuns Theodora, and Theopisti her daughter, of Aegina, in Thessaloniki (892)
Saint Aspren (Aspronas), Bishop of Naples (1st century)
Saint Euphronius, Bishop of Autun in France and a friend of St Lupus of Troyes, Confessor (c. 475)
Saint Trea, hermitess, converted to Orthodoxy by St Patrick, she spent the rest of her life as an anchoress in Ardtree in Derry, Ireland (5th century)
saint Faustus, son of St Dalmatius of Pavia in Italy, lived the life of a holy monk (5th century)
Saint Senach (Snach), a disciple of St Finian and his successor as Abbot of Clonard in Ireland (6th century)
Saint Benno, hermit on Mt Etzel in Switzerland, a founder of the monastery of Einsiedeln, became Bishop of Metz in 927 (940)
Saint Gregory of Nonantula, Abbot of Nonantola Abbey near Modena in Italy (933)
Venerable Anthony the Roman, Abbot in Novgorod (1147)
Nine Kherkheulidze brothers, their mother and sister, and 9,000 others, who suffered on the field of Marabda, Georgia (1625)
New Hieromartyr Viacheslav Lukanin, Deacon (1918)
New Hieromartyr Nicholas Pomerantsev, Priest
Repose of Hiero-schemamonk Ignatius of Harbin (1958)
Holy Myrrh-bearer Salome (1st century)
Hieromartyr Stephen, Pope of Rome, and Companions (257)
Venerable Saints Isaac (383), Dalmatius, and Faustus (5th century), ascetics of the Dalmatian Monastery at Constantinople.
Protomartyr Rajden (Razhdenes) of Tsromi and Nikozi, Georgia (457)
Saint Cosmas of Palestine, eunuch and hermit (6th century)
Martyr Olympios the Prefect (Olympius the Eparch), Byzantine noble martyred under the Persian King Chosroes II for confessing the Orthodox Faith (c. 610-641)
Saint John of Patalaria Monastery, Confessor and Abbot (8th-9th centuries)
Venerable Theoclita (Theokliti) the Wonderworker, of Optimaton (Theme of the Optimatoi) (ca. 842)
Saints John the Monastic, and John the New, Bishops of Ephesus.
Venerable Nuns Theodora, and Theopisti her daughter, of Aegina, in Thessaloniki (892)
Saint Aspren (Aspronas), Bishop of Naples (1st century)
Saint Euphronius, Bishop of Autun in France and a friend of St Lupus of Troyes, Confessor (c. 475)
Saint Trea, hermitess, converted to Orthodoxy by St Patrick, she spent the rest of her life as an anchoress in Ardtree in Derry, Ireland (5th century)
saint Faustus, son of St Dalmatius of Pavia in Italy, lived the life of a holy monk (5th century)
Saint Senach (Snach), a disciple of St Finian and his successor as Abbot of Clonard in Ireland (6th century)
Saint Benno, hermit on Mt Etzel in Switzerland, a founder of the monastery of Einsiedeln, became Bishop of Metz in 927 (940)
Saint Gregory of Nonantula, Abbot of Nonantola Abbey near Modena in Italy (933)
Venerable Anthony the Roman, Abbot in Novgorod (1147)
Nine Kherkheulidze brothers, their mother and sister, and 9,000 others, who suffered on the field of Marabda, Georgia (1625)
New Hieromartyr Viacheslav Lukanin, Deacon (1918)
New Hieromartyr Nicholas Pomerantsev, Priest
Repose of Hiero-schemamonk Ignatius of Harbin (1958)
Coptic Orthodox
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