On This Day for August 3 - Columbus's first transatlantic voyage begun, Stanley Baldwin, 1st Earl Baldwin of Bewdley is featured, and more

Created: 2020-08-03 10:03 Updated: 2020-08-03 10:03 Notebook: On this Day in History

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August 03

FEATURED BIOGRAPHY

Stanley Baldwin, 1st Earl Baldwin of Bewdley

FEATURED EVENT

1492

Columbus's first transatlantic voyage begun

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2004: French photographer Henri Cartier-Bresson—who was a master of street photography, capturing what he called “the decisive moment”—died. [Test your knowledge of famous photographers.]

1992: The American revisionist western Unforgiven had its world premiere, and it later won four Academy Awards, including best director for Clint Eastwood , who also starred in the drama, and best picture. [How much do you know about the Academy Awards?]

1984: American gymnast Mary Lou Retton won the all-around event at the Los Angeles Games, becoming the first American woman to win an individual Olympic gold medal in gymnastics. [ Sort fact from fiction in our quiz about gymnastics.]

1941: American entrepreneur and domestic lifestyle innovator Martha Stewart was born.

1936: At the Olympics in Berlin, American track athlete Jesse Owens won the 100-metre event, his first of four Olympic gold medals. [ Was Jesse Owens snubbed by Adolf Hitler at the Berlin Olympics?]

1921: 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. [Read our list of seven unsportsmanlike sportsmen.]

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ALSO BORN ON THIS DAY

1977

Tom Brady
American football player

1926

Tony Bennett
American singer

1941

Martha Stewart
American entrepreneur and television personality

1934

Jonas Savimbi
Angolan politician

1867

Stanley Baldwin
prime minister of United Kingdom