August 3<\/p>\n
435 \u2013 Nestorius, Patriarch of Constantinople, is deposed and exiled for heresy by Emperor Theodosius II<\/p>\n
1342 \u2013\u00a0 During the Spanish Reconquista, the Castillian forces of Alfonso XI assisted by the fleets of the Kingdom of Aragon and the Republic of Genoa besiege the port city of Algeciras, the main port of the Marinid Sultanate in southern Spain, one of the first engagements where gunpowder weapons are used.<\/p>\n
1492 \u2013 Christopher Columbus sets sail from Palos de la Frontera, Spain on his first voyage to the new world<\/p>\n
1678 \u2013 French explorer Robert LaSalle builds the Le Griffon<\/em>, the first known ship built on the Great Lakes.<\/p>\n 1795 \u2013 The Treaty of Greenville<\/em> is signed by the Wyandot and Delaware tribes ending the Northwest Indian War in the Ohio Country.<\/p>\n 1829 \u2013 The Treaty of Lewistown<\/em> is signed by the Shawnee and Seneca tribes, exchanging land in Ohio for land west of the Mississippi River.<\/p>\n 1900 \u2013 The Firestone Tire and Rubber Company is founded.<\/p>\n 1907 \u2013 Judge Kenesaw Mountain Landis fines Standard Oil of Indiana a record $29.4 million for illegal rebating to freight carriers; the conviction and fine are later reversed on appeal.<\/p>\n 1914 \u2013 Germany declares war against France.<\/p>\n 1921 \u2013 Major League Baseball Commissioner, retired Judge Kenesaw Mountain Landis confirms the ban of the eight Chicago Black Sox, the day after they were acquitted by a Chicago court.<\/p>\n 1936 \u2013 Jesse Owens wins the 100 meter dash at the Berlin Olympics.<\/p>\n 1958 \u2013 The nuclear powered submarine, USS Nautilus<\/em>, becomes the first vessel to complete a submerged transit of the geographical North Pole.<\/p>\n 1960 \u2013 Niger gains independence from France.<\/p>\n 1972 \u2013 The U.S. Senate ratifies the Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty<\/em> with the Soviet Union<\/p>\n 2004 \u2013 The pedestal of the Statue of Liberty reopens after being closed since the September 11 attacks.<\/p>\n 2008 \u2013 Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn dies in Moscow, Russia<\/p>\n 2019 \u2013 At a WalMart store in El Paso, Texas,\u00a0 Patrick Crusius opens fire with a rifle, killing 23 people and wounding another 23 before he flees.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" August 3 435 \u2013 Nestorius, Patriarch of Constantinople, is deposed and exiled for heresy by Emperor Theodosius II 1342 \u2013\u00a0 During the Spanish Reconquista, the Castillian forces of Alfonso XI assisted by the fleets of the Kingdom of Aragon and the Republic of Genoa besiege the port city of Algeciras, the main port of the … Continue reading “”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[90],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-57691","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-today"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57691","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=57691"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57691\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":84009,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57691\/revisions\/84009"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=57691"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=57691"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=57691"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}