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Today is Monday, Aug. 3, the 215th day of 2026. There are 150 days left in the year.<\/p>\n

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Today in history:<\/h4>\n

On August 3, 1936, Jesse Owens of the United States won the first of his four gold medals at the Berlin Olympics as he took the 100-meter sprint.<\/p>\n

Also on this date:<\/h4>\n

In 1492, Christopher Columbus set sail from Palos, Spain, on his first voyage that took him to the present-day Americas.<\/p>\n

In 1852, in America\u2019s first intercollegiate sporting event, Harvard rowed past Yale to win the first Harvard-Yale Regatta.<\/p>\n

In 1916, Irish-born British diplomat Roger Casement, a strong advocate of independence for Ireland, was hanged for treason.<\/p>\n

In 1972, the U.S. Senate ratified the Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty between the United States and the Soviet Union.<\/p>\n

In 1977, the Tandy Corporation introduced the TRS-80, one of the first widely-available home computers.<\/p>\n

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In 1981, U.S. air traffic controllers went on strike, seeking pay and workplace improvements (two days later, President Ronald Reagan fired the 11,345 striking union members and barred them from federal employment).<\/p>\n

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In 2004, the pedestal of the Statue of Liberty opened to visitors for the first time since the 9\/11 attacks.<\/p>\n

In 2018, Las Vegas police said they were closing their investigation into the Oct. 1, 2017, shooting that left 58 people dead at a country music festival without a definitive answer for why Stephen Paddock unleashed gunfire from a hotel suite onto the concert crowd.<\/p>\n

In 2019, a gunman opened fire at a Walmart store in El Paso, Texas, resulting in the deaths of 23 people; after surrendering, the gunman told detectives he targeted \u201cMexicans\u201d and had outlined the plot in a screed published online shortly before the attack.<\/p>\n

In 2021, New York\u2019s state attorney general said an investigation found Gov. Andrew Cuomo had sexually harassed multiple current and former state government employees; the report stepped up pressure from fellow Democrats for Cuomo to resign, and he did so a week later.<\/p>\n

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In 2022, U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi arrived in Taiwan, becoming the highest-ranking American official in 25 years to visit the self-ruled island claimed by China, which quickly announced it would conducted military maneuvers in retaliation for her trip.<\/p>\n

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Today\u2019s Birthdays:<\/h4>\n
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  • Football Hall of Fame coach Marv Levy is 101.<\/li>\n
  • Actor Martin Sheen is 86.<\/li>\n
  • Lifestyle guru Martha Stewart is 85.<\/li>\n
  • Film director John Landis is 76.<\/li>\n
  • Actor JoMarie Payton (TV: \u201cFamily Matters\u201d) is 76.<\/li>\n
  • Hockey Hall of Famer Marcel Dionne is 75.<\/li>\n
  • Actor John C. McGinley is 67.<\/li>\n
  • Rock singer\/guitarist James Hetfield (Metallica) is 63.<\/li>\n
  • Actor Lisa Ann Walter (TV: \u201cAbbott Elementary\u201d) is 63.<\/li>\n
  • Rock musician Stephen Carpenter (Deftones) is 56.<\/li>\n
  • Former NFL quarterback Tom Brady is 49.<\/li>\n
  • Actor Evangeline Lilly is 47.<\/li>\n
  • Olympic swimming gold medalist Ryan Lochte is 42.<\/li>\n
  • Model Karlie Kloss is 32.<\/li>\n
  • Actor Chandler Kinney is 26.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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