1900: Firestone Tire and Rubber Company is founded
The American tire company was founded by Harvey Samuel Firestone in Akron, Ohio. In 1988, the company was taken over by Japan’s Bridgestone Corporation.
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1921: Chicago White Sox team, 1919
A day after being acquitted on insufficient evidence—largely because key evidence had disappeared from the grand jury files, eight Chicago White Sox players were banned from baseball for life, accused of receiving bribes to intentionally lose the 1919 World Series.
1934: Adolf Hitler merges the offices of German Chancellor and President, declaring himself “Führer” (leader)
1946: World’s first theme park opens its doors in Santa Claus, Indiana, USA
Santa Claus Land is now known as Holiday World &Splashin’ Safari.
1949: After a damaging three-year battle to win both players and fans, the rival Basketball Association of America (BAA) and National Basketball League (NBL) merge to form the National Basketball Association (NBA).
On August 3, 1958, the U.S. nuclear submarine Nautilus accomplishes the first undersea voyage to the geographic North Pole. The world’s first nuclear submarine, the Nautilus dived at Point Barrow, Alaska, and traveled nearly 1,000 miles under the Arctic ice cap to reach the top of the world. It then steamed on to Iceland, pioneering a new and shorter route from the Pacific to the Atlantic and Europe.
1960: Niger gains its independence from France
The West African country became a French colony in the early 20th century. HamaniDiori became the first president of the country.
On August 3, 1975, a chartered Boeing 707 jetliner crashes in the Atlas Mountains near Agadir, a coastal city in Morocco. All 188 people aboard the plane were killed, in the fourth worst air disaster to that date.
2004: The Statue of Liberty, perhaps the most celebrated symbol of American ideals and exceptionalism, reopened after the 9/11 attacks on this day in history, August 3, 2004.
2005: Coup in Mauritania. A military coup replaced long-time president MaaouyaOuldSid’AhmedTaya. Colonel Ely Ould Mohamed Vall took over the transitional government until elections were held in 2005.
2006: Dr. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala resigned as Nigeria’s Foreign Minister following her sudden removal as head of Nigeria’s Economic Intelligence team by President OlusegunObasanjo
BIRTHS ON THIS DAY: August 2
Martha Helen Stewart, 83 years
Martha Helen Stewart is an American retail businesswoman, writer, and television personality born on 3 August 1941. As the founder of Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia, focusing on home and hospitality, she gained success through a variety of business ventures, encompassing publishing, broadcasting, merchandising and e-commerce.
