On this day: 3 August

Roman Empire general Tiberius defeats the Dalmatae on the river Bosna.

Deposed Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople Nestorius, considered the originator of Nestorianism, is exiled by Roman Emperor Theodosius II to a monastery in Egypt.

Battle of Saucourt-en-Vimeu: Louis III of France defeats the Vikings, an event celebrated in the poem Ludwigslied.

Battle of Eisenach: An invading Hungarian force defeats an East Frankish army under Duke Burchard of Thuringia.

Pope Stephen IX was crowned as pope.

The Siege of Algeciras commences during the Spanish Reconquista.

Christopher Columbus sets sail from Palos de la Frontera, Spain.

Long War: Austria captures Transylvania in the Battle of Goroszló.

Thirty Years' War: The Second Battle of Nördlingen sees French forces defeating those of the Holy Roman Empire.

Robert LaSalle builds the Le Griffon, the first known ship built on the Great Lakes.

The theatre La Scala in Milan is inaugurated with the première of Antonio Salieri's Europa riconosciuta.

Treaty of Greenville is signed, ending the Northwest Indian War in the Ohio Country.

First ascent of Jungfrau, third highest summit in the Bernese Alps by brothers Johann Rudolf and Hieronymus Meyer.

The Treaty of Lewistown is signed by the Shawnee and Seneca peoples, exchanging land in Ohio for land west of the Mississippi River.

Harvard University wins the first Boat Race between Yale University and Harvard. The race is also known as the first ever American intercollegiate athletic event.

The American Dental Association is founded in Niagara Falls, New York.

An Anglo-Egyptian army defeats a Mahdist-Sudanese army in the battle of Toski.

The Firestone Tire and Rubber Company is founded.

Macedonian rebels in Kruševo established a republic, which existed for ten days before Ottoman forces destroyed the town.

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.

World War I: Germany declares war against France, while Romania declares its neutrality.

Major League Baseball Commissioner Kenesaw Mountain Landis confirms the ban of the eight Chicago Black Sox, the day after they were acquitted by a Chicago court.

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.

Santa Claus Land, the world's first themed amusement park, opens in Santa Claus, Indiana, United States.

Whittaker Chambers accuses Alger Hiss of being a communist and a spy for the Soviet Union.

The Basketball Association of America and the National Basketball League finalize the merger that would create the National Basketball Association.

The world's first nuclear submarine, the USS Nautilus, becomes the first vessel to complete a submerged transit of the geographical North Pole.

Niger gains independence from France.

Fighting Dinosaurs, a fossil specimen featuring a Velociraptor and a Protoceratops in combat, was unearthed in the Djadochta Formation of Mongolia.

The United States Senate ratifies the Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty.

Tandy Corporation announces the TRS-80, one of the world's first mass-produced personal computers.

Senegalese opposition parties, under the leadership of Mamadou Dia, launch the Antiimperialist Action Front – Suxxali Reew Mi.

The Sky Tower, then the tallest free-standing structure in the Southern Hemisphere at 328 m (1,076 ft), opened in Auckland, New Zealand.

The pedestal of the Statue of Liberty reopens after being closed since the September 11 attacks.

Mauritanian president Maaouya Ould Sid'Ahmed Taya was overthrown in a military coup while he attended the funeral of King Fahd of Saudi Arabia.

Major floods hit parts of Slovenia.