Today in 1936 Jesse Owens wins his first gold medal of the 1936 Summer Olympics in Berlin.

August 3 is the 215th day of the year (216th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 150 days remaining until the end of the year.

Our on this day in history archives contain over 200,000 events, birthdays and deaths from 6,000 years of history. Here is a roundup of a few of them:

EVENTS

8 - Roman general Tiberius defeats Dalmatae on the River Balthinus.

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

881 - Battle of Saucourt-en-Vimeu: King Louis III of France defeats the Vikings.

1031 - Olaf II of Norway is made a saint, by Grimtekel, the English bishop of Selsey.

1492 – Christopher Columbus sets sail for the voyage that took him to the Caribbean.

1492 – All Jews in Spain are expelled by the country's Catholic Monarchs.

1527 - The first known letter from North America is sent from St. John's, Newfoundland.

1601 - Long War: Austria captures Transylvania in the Battle of Gorozso.

1645 - Thirty Years' War: Second Battle of Nordlingen.

1678 - Robert LaSalle builds the Le Griffon, the first known ship built on the Great Lakes.

1778 - The La Scala theater in Milan is opened.

1783 – In Japan, Mount Asama erupts, killing around 1,000 people.

1787 - Mesaurements by Geneva's Horace-Benedict de Saussure conclude that Mont Blanc is the highest mountain in the Alps.

1811 - First ascent of the Jungfrau, in the Swiss Alps by Johann Rudolf and Hieronymus Meyer.

1818 - The Russian Rurik expedition ends after 3 years, led by Adelbert von Chamisso.

1852 - The first boat race between Harvard University and Yale University is held. Harvard wins.

1858 - John Hanning Speke becomes the first known European to reach Lake Victoria in Africa's Great Rift Valley.

1860 - The Second Maori War begins in New Zealand.

1900 - The Firestone Tire and Rubber Company is founded.

1914 – World War I: Germany declares war on France.

1916 - Irish Easter Rising leader Roger Casement is executed.

1921 - Major League Baseball commissioner Kenesaw Mountain Landis confirms the ban of the eight Chicago Black Sox players, the day after they were acquitted (found innocent) by a Chicago court.

1923 - Calvin Coolidge is officially sworn in as President of the United States, after the death of Warren G. Harding the previous day.

1929 - Jiddu Krishnamurti shocks the Theosophy Movement by dissolving the Order of the Star, the organization built to support him.

1936 – Jesse Owens wins his first gold medal of the 1936 Summer Olympics in Berlin.

1936 - Fire wipes out Kursha-2 in the Meshchera Lowlands, Ryazan Oblast, Russia, killing 1,200 people, with only 20 survivors.

1940 – World War II: Italy invades Somaliland.

1948 - Whittaker Chambers accuses Alger Hiss of being a Communist and a spy for the Soviet Union.

1949 - The NBA, the US governing body of basketball, is founded.

1958 - Nuclear submarine USS Nautilus travels beneath the Arctic ice cap, crossing the North Pole underwater.

1959 - Portuguese state police force PIDE fires on striking workers in Bissau in present-day Guinea Bissau (then a Portuguese colony), killing over 50 people.

1960 – Niger becomes independent from France.

1961 - The New Democratic Party of Canada is founded. 50 years later, in 2011, it becomes the official opposition party in Canada for the first time, though its then-leader Jack Layton dies a short time later.

1972 - The United States Senate confirms Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty.

1975 - A privately chartered Boeing 707 crashes into a mountainside near Agadir, Morocco, killing 188 people.

1975 - Less than a month after the Comoros became independent, President Ahmed Abdallah is deposed in a coup, supported by Bob Denard. A revolutionary committee under Ali Soilih takes over.

1979 - Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo deposes his uncle Francisco Macias Nguema in a coup in Equatorial Guinea.

1980 - The 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow come to an end.

1997 - The Oued El-Had and Mezouara massacre in Algeria kills 116 people.

2001 - The Real IRA detonates a bomb in Ealing, a suburb of London, injuring 7 people.

2004 - The pedestal of the Statue of Liberty is re-opened, after it closed following the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks.

2004 - The NASA MESSENGER space probe, in the Discovery Program programme, is sent to the planet Mercury.

2005 – President Maaouya Ould Sid'Ahmed Taya of Mauritania is deposed from power, while abroad, attending the funeral of King Fahd of Saudi Arabia.

2005 - Mahmoud Ahmadinejad becomes President of Iran.

2013 - Hassan Rouhani becomes President of Iran.

2013 - Because of a perceived terror threat, the United States decides to close many of its embassies in North Africa and Western Asia for the day on August 4. The UK, France and Germany decide to shut their embassies in Yemen on the same date.

2014 - An earthquake strikes Yunnan province, China, killing over 300 people.

2014 - The 2014 Commonwealth Games in Glasgow, Scotland come to an end. Neighboring England tops the medal table ahead of Australia, while host nation Scotland finished with its own record totals of gold and overall medals.

2018 - Emmerson Mnangagwa is declared the winner of Zimbabwe's July 30 Presidential election.

2019 - 2019 El Paso shooting: 20 people are killed in a shooting at a supermarket in El Paso, Texas. A second, unrelated, mass shooting occurs in Dayton, Ohio less than 24 hours later.