August 3

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[edit] Events

• 881 - Battle of Saucourt-en-Vimeu, where Louis III of France defeated the Vikings, an event celebrated in the poem Ludwigslied
• 1492 - Christopher Columbus sets sail from Palos de la Frontera, Spain.
• 1678 - Robert LaSalle builds the Le Griffon, the first known ship built in America
• 1914 - World War I: Germany declares war against France.
• 1934 - Adolf Hitler becomes the supreme leader of Germany by joining the offices of President and Chancellor into Führer.
• 1948 - Whittaker Chambers accuses Alger Hiss of being a communist and a spy for the Soviet Union
• 1960 - Niger gains independence from France.
• 1972 - U.S. Senate ratifies the Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty.

[edit] Births

• 1900 - John T. Scopes, American defendant (d. 1970)
• 1946 - Jack Straw, British politician

[edit] Deaths

• 1924 - Joseph Conrad, Polish-born English novelist (b. 1857)
• 1929 - Thorstein Veblen, Norwegian-American sociologist and economist (b. 1857)
• 2008 - Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Russian novelist (b. 1918)