Today is Monday, Aug. 3, the 215th day of 2026. There are 150 days left in the year.<\/p>\n
Today in history:<\/p>\n
On August 3, 1936, Jesse Owens of the United States won the first of his four gold medals at the Berlin Olympics as he took the 100-meter sprint.<\/p>\n
Also on this date:<\/p>\n
In 1492, Christopher Columbus set sail from Palos, Spain, on his first voyage that took him to the present-day Americas.<\/p>\n
In 1852, in America\u2019s first intercollegiate sporting event, Harvard rowed past Yale to win the first Harvard-Yale Regatta.<\/p>\n
In 1916, Irish-born British diplomat Roger Casement, a strong advocate of independence for Ireland, was hanged for treason.<\/p>\n
In 1972, the U.S. Senate ratified the Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty between the United States and the Soviet Union.<\/p>\n
In 1977, the Tandy Corporation introduced the TRS-80, one of the first widely-available home computers.<\/p>\n
In 1981, U.S. air traffic controllers went on strike, seeking pay and workplace improvements (two days later, President Ronald Reagan fired the 11,345 striking union members and barred them from federal employment).<\/p>\n
In 2004, the pedestal of the Statue of Liberty opened to visitors for the first time since the 9\/11 attacks.<\/p>\n
In 2018, Las Vegas police said they were closing their investigation into the Oct. 1, 2017, shooting that left 58 people dead at a country music festival without a definitive answer for why Stephen Paddock unleashed gunfire from a hotel suite onto the concert crowd.<\/p>\n
In 2019, a gunman opened fire at a Walmart store in El Paso, Texas, resulting in the deaths of 23 people; after surrendering, the gunman told detectives he targeted \u201cMexicans\u201d and had outlined the plot in a screed published online shortly before the attack.<\/p>\n
In 2021, New York\u2019s state attorney general said an investigation found Gov. Andrew Cuomo had sexually harassed multiple current and former state government employees; the report stepped up pressure from fellow Democrats for Cuomo to resign, and he did so a week later.<\/p>\n
In 2022, U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi arrived in Taiwan, becoming the highest-ranking American official in 25 years to visit the self-ruled island claimed by China, which quickly announced it would conducted military maneuvers in retaliation for her trip.<\/p>\n
Today\u2019s Birthdays:<\/p>\n
Football Hall of Fame coach Marv Levy is 101.
\nActor Martin Sheen is 86.
\nLifestyle guru Martha Stewart is 85.
\nFilm director John Landis is 76.
\nActor JoMarie Payton (TV: \u201cFamily Matters\u201d) is 76.
\nHockey Hall of Famer Marcel Dionne is 75.
\nActor John C. McGinley is 67.
\nRock singer\/guitarist James Hetfield (Metallica) is 63.
\nActor Lisa Ann Walter (TV: \u201cAbbott Elementary\u201d) is 63.
\nRock musician Stephen Carpenter (Deftones) is 56.
\nFormer NFL quarterback Tom Brady is 49.
\nActor Evangeline Lilly is 47.
\nOlympic swimming gold medalist Ryan Lochte is 42.
\nModel Karlie Kloss is 32.
\nActor Chandler Kinney is 26.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Today is Monday, Aug. 3, the 215th day of 2026. There are 150 days left in the year.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":139682,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[99],"tags":[67096,112,67097,190,47006,2801],"class_list":["post-139681","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-berlin","tag-august-3-history","tag-berlin","tag-berlin-olympics","tag-germany","tag-jesse-owens","tag-today-in-history"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139681","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=139681"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139681\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/139682"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=139681"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=139681"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=139681"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}