Vero - Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/August 3

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  Defence of the Arrah House, 1857 by William Tayler
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  Harvey Firestone
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  Whittaker Chambers
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  Alger Hiss
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  Maaouya Ould Sid'Ahmed Taya
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  Somaliland Protectorate postage stamp
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  Roger Casement
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  Sky Tower
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  Auckland Sky Tower
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  Krishnamurti in the 1920s
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  Jesse Owens in the long jump at the 1936 Olympics

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|Template:Nowrap]] to a monastery in Egypt.	refimprove section
1460 – James II of Scotland was killed by an exploding cannon at Roxburgh Castle.	"Additional sources" needed orange banner
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
Stanley Baldwin |b|1867|	Orange "update needed" banner
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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 1977 – Tandy Corporation announced the TRS-80, one of the world's first mass-produced personal computers.
• 1997 – The Sky Tower, then the tallest free-standing structure in the Southern Hemisphere at Template:Convert, opened in Auckland, New Zealand.
• 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| Hamilton Fish |b|1808| Herbert Armitage James |b|1844| Alfred Deakin |b|1856| Tony Bennett |b|1926| Frumka Płotnicka |d|1943| Hilda Rix Nicholas |d|1961| Alexander Mair |d|1969| Sunil Chhetri |b|1984| Esther Earl |b|1994

August 3: Tisha B'Av (Judaism, 2025) Template:Main page image/OTD

• 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.
• 1940 – World War II: Italian forces began a conquest of British Somaliland, capturing the region in 16 days.
• 1975 – A privately chartered Boeing 707 (aircraft involved pictured) struck a mountain peak and crashed near Agadir, Morocco, killing 188.
• 2009 – The last vessels involved in Taurus 09, a Royal Navy training deployment covering 20,400 miles (32,800 km), returned to HMNB Devonport, England.