Advocatespedia:Selected anniversaries/August 3
Advocatespedia:Selected anniversaries/doc
Staging area
Images
Use only ONE image at a time
-
Defence of the Arrah House, 1857 by William Tayler
-
Harvey Firestone
-
Whittaker Chambers
-
Alger Hiss
-
Maaouya Ould Sid'Ahmed Taya
-
Somaliland Protectorate postage stamp
-
Roger Casement
-
Sky Tower
-
Auckland Sky Tower
-
Krishnamurti in the 1920s
.jpg){kind=link}
.jpg){kind=link}
Ineligible
| Blurb | Reason |
|---|---|
| Independence Day in Niger (1960); | unreferenced section |
| Flag Day in Venezuela | unreferenced section |
| 435 – Nestorius, the originator of Nestorianism, was exiled by Byzantine Emperor Theodosius II to a monastery in Egypt. | refimprove section |
| 1645 – France and the Holy Roman Empire fought in the Second Battle of Nördlingen. | needs more footnotes |
| 1795 – The United States signed the Treaty of Greenville with the Western Confederacy coalition of Native Americans, ending the Northwest Indian War. | unreferenced section |
| 1811 – A climbing team led by the Meyer brothers from Aarau became the first to reach the summit of the Jungfrau, one of the main summits of the Bernese Alps. | refimprove section |
| 1852 – The inaugural Harvard–Yale Regatta—the first intercollegiate sports event in the United States—was held on Lake Winnipesaukee, New Hampshire. | unreferenced section |
| 1900 – The Firestone Tire and Rubber Company, a pioneer in the mass production of automobile tires, was founded by Harvey Firestone in Akron, Ohio, U.S. | refimprove |
| 1916 – Irish nationalist Sir Roger Casement was hanged at London's Pentonville Prison for treason for his role in the Easter Rising, a rebellion to win Irish independence from Britain. | needs more footnotes, refimprove sections |
| 1949 – The Basketball Association of America agreed to merge with the National Basketball League to form the National Basketball Association. | refimprove section |
| 1948 – Before the House Un-American Activities Committee of the United States House of Representatives, former spy turned government informer Whittaker Chambers accused U.S. State Department official Alger Hiss of being a communist and a Soviet spy. | Too much uncited |
| 1959 – Portuguese state police opened fire on striking dock workers in Bissau, Portuguese Guinea, killing at least 25 people in a step that led to the Guinea-Bissau War of Independence four years later. | unreliable sources |
| 1960 – Niger officially gained independence from France as part of the decolonization of the French Community. | refimprove section |
| 1961 – Canada's New Democratic Party was founded with the merger of the Co-operative Commonwealth Federation and organised labour. | refimprove section |
| 2005 – Former mayor of Tehran Mahmoud Ahmadinejad took office as the sixth president of Iran. | 12 cn's |
| Thomas Francis Meagher |b|1823| | Too much uncited |
| George Inness |d|1894| | Deathdate not cited |
| Rudolf Wolters |b|1903| | source does not state birthdate |
| Dolores del Río |b|1904| | Too much uncited |
| Nadia Ali |b|1980| | date referenced only to discogs, which is unreliable source |
Eligible
- 1057 – Pope Stephen IX was crowned as pope.
- 1857 – Indian Rebellion: An eight-day siege of a fortified outbuilding in Arrah occupied by 68 defenders against more than 10,000 men ended when a relief party dispersed the besiegers.
- 1913 – An agricultural workers' strike in Wheatland degenerated into a riot, becoming one of the first major farm-labor confrontations in California.
- 1929 – Jiddu Krishnamurti (pictured), believed by some Theosophists to be a likely candidate for the messianic "World Teacher", dissolved the Order of the Star, the organisation established to support him.
- 1940 – World War II: Italian forces began a conquest of British Somaliland, capturing the region in 16 days.
- 1977 – Tandy Corporation announced the TRS-80, one of the world's first mass-produced personal computers.
- 2005 – Mauritanian president Maaouya Ould Sid'Ahmed Taya was overthrown in a military coup while he attended the funeral of King Fahd of Saudi Arabia.
- Born/died this day: | Empress Dowager Cao |d|925| Christopher Anstey |d|1805| Hamilton Fish |b|1808|Alfred Deakin |b|1856| Stanley Baldwin |b|1867| Martha Stewart |b|1941| Hilda Rix Nicholas |d|1961| Esther Earl |b|1994| Mary Musa |d|2015
- 1347 – Hundred Years' War: The French town of Calais capitulated to English forces after an eleven-month siege, ending the Crécy campaign.
- 1903 – Macedonian rebels in Kruševo proclaimed a republic, which existed for ten days before Ottoman forces destroyed the town.
- 1936 – African-American athlete Jesse Owens won the first of his four gold medals at the Berlin Olympics, dashing Nazi leaders' hopes of Aryan domination at the games.
- 1971 – Fighting Dinosaurs, a fossil specimen featuring a Velociraptor and a Protoceratops in combat, was unearthed in the Djadochta Formation of Mongolia.
- 1997 – The Sky Tower, then the tallest free-standing structure in the Southern Hemisphere at 328 m (1,076 ft), opened in Auckland, New Zealand.
- Herbert Armitage James (b. 1844)
- Tony Bennett (b. 1926)
- Frumka Płotnicka (d. 1943)
- Alexander Mair (d. 1969)