(x) 41-year-old Explorer Christoffel Columbus sails off on the Santa Maria, the Pinta and the Nina on his way to discover America in Palos, Spain.
112 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 3 August 1901
(+) Cardinal Stefan Wyszynski aka The Primate of the Millennium, is born in Zuzela, Poland.
99 YEARS AGO - on Monday 3 August 1914
(x) Germany declares war to France.
89 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 3 August 1924
(+) Writer Leon Uris is born in Baltimore, Maryland, United States.
89 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 3 August 1924
(-) Writer Joseph Conrad originally Teodor Jozef Konrad Nalecz-Korzeniowski, dies of a heart attack at the age of 66 in Bishopsbourne, Kent, United Kingdom.
84 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 3 August 1929
(-) Inventor and founder of the Berliner Gramophone Company Emil Berliner dies of a heart attack at the age of 78 in Washington, District Columbia, United States.
77 YEARS AGO - on Monday 3 August 1936
(x) 22-year-old Olympic legend Jesse James Cleveland Owens wins the 100 meters race at the Summer Olympic Games in Berlin, Berlin, Germany.
74 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 3 August 1939
(-) Murderer Arthur Perry is executed by Old Sparky at the age of 29 in New York, Sing Sing prison, New York, United States.
73 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 3 August 1940
(+) Actor Martin Sheen originally Ramon Estevez, is born in Dayton, Ohio, United States.
63 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 3 August 1950
(x) The house of 52-year-old Serial Killer John Reginald Christie of 10 Rillington Place, is sold to Mr. Charles Brown, a Jamaican who wanted to turn it into a lodging house for fellow-countrymen. in London, London City of, United Kingdom.
Unknown to Mr. Brown there are 7 bodies hidden in the house and backyard.
52 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 3 August 1961
(x) Leonard Bearden and his 16-year-old son Cody are the first men ever to sky-jack a Continental Airlines Boeing 707 to Cuba.
51 YEARS AGO - on Friday 3 August 1962
(-) Mary Martin dies of spontaneous human combustion at the age of 74 in Lockland, Ohio, United States.
49 YEARS AGO - on Monday 3 August 1964
(x) Serial Rapist Ted Edward John Louis Paisnel aka The Beast of Jersey, assaults an unidentified mentally retarded boy in Grouville, Jersey.
47 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 3 August 1966
(-) Comedian Lenny Bruce dies of a morphine overdose at the age of 40 in Los Angeles, California, United States.
40 YEARS AGO - on Friday 3 August 1973
(x) Over 500 Die in ferry collision in Kanton, Hsi Chiang River, China.
40 YEARS AGO - on Friday 3 August 1973
(-) James Dreymala is tortured and strangled by Dean Corll aka The Candyman, at the age of 14 in Houston, the Heights, Texas, United States.
39 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 3 August 1974
(-) Lee Thomas is found strangled by Randy Kraft aka The Freeway Killer, at the age of 25 in Long Beach Harbour Oilfield, California, United States.
38 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 3 August 1975
(x) 188 Die in Boeing 707 crash in Agadir, Morocco.
37 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 3 August 1976
(x) Serial Killer Rudi Paul Zimmerman tries to commit suicide in prison in Wuppertal, Germany.
He was suspected of 90 murders in hospitals and homes for the elderly.
36 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 3 August 1977
(-) President and archbishop of Cyprus Makarios III originally Mihalis Christodoulou Mouskos, dies of a heart attack at the age of 64 in Nicosia, Greece.
34 YEARS AGO - on Friday 3 August 1979
(-) An unidentified woman is presumably attacked by Peter Sutcliffe aka The Yorkshire Ripper, at the age of 21 in Derby, United Kingdom.
24 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 3 August 1989
(x) 44-year-old Serial Killer Randy Stephen Kraft aka The Freeway Killer, is sentenced to death in Orange County, West County Municipal Courts Building, California, United States.
22 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 3 August 1991
(x) 83 children Die in school bus collision in Zimbabwe.
It crashed into a ravine.
19 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 3 August 1994
(x) The Serial Killer N.Y. Zodiac Murderer sends a letter to the New York Post, claiming the lives of 4 victims in New York, New York, United States.
9 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 3 August 2004
(-) Photographer Henri Cartier-Bresson dies at the age of 96 in Céreste, France.
7 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 3 August 2006
(-) Murderer William Jr. Wyatt is executed by lethal injection in Huntsville Prison, Texas, United States.
6 YEARS AGO - on Friday 3 August 2007
(x) 118 Die in K-141 Kursk nuclear cruise missile submarine explosion in the Barents Sea.
Some of the crew survived at least for several days while the ship lay 108m deep.
(-) Writer Alexander Isaewitsch Solzhenitsyn dies of heart failure at the age of 89 in Moscow, Moscow (City), Russia.
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