Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/August 3

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 * 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.
 * 1903 – Macedonian rebels in Kruševo proclaimed a republic, which existed for ten days before Ottoman forces destroyed the town.
 * 1913 – An agricultural workers' strike in Wheatland degenerated into a riot, becoming one of the first major farm-labor confrontations in California.
 * 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
 * 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.
 * 1971 – Fighting Dinosaurs, a fossil specimen featuring a Velociraptor and a Protoceratops trapped in eternal combat, was unearthed in the Djadochta Formation of Mongolia.
 * 1997 – The Sky Tower (pictured), the tallest free-standing structure in the Southern Hemisphere at 328 m, opened in Auckland, New Zealand.
 * Born/died this day: | Empress Dowager Cao |d|925 |Christopher Anstey |d|1805| Hamilton Fish |b|1808|Thomas Francis Meagher |b|1823| Stanley Baldwin |b|1867| George Inness |d|1894| Dolores del Río |b|1904| Tony Bennett |b|1926| Martha Stewart |b|1941| Frumka Płotnicka |d|1943| Alexander Mair |d|1969| Mary Musa |d|2015

August 3


 * 1057 – Pope Stephen IX was crowned as pope.
 * 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.
 * 1940 – World War II: Italian forces began a conquest of British Somaliland, capturing the region in 16 days.
 * 1977 – Tandy Corporation announced the TRS-80, one of the world's first mass-produced personal computers.
 * 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.