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August 3 is the 215th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (216th in leap years), with 150 days remaining.

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.
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.