Here is a list of things which happened on the 3rd of August over the years:
Christopher Columbus sets sail from Palos de la Frontera, Spain. (1492)
The Jews of Spain are expelled by the Catholic Monarchs. (1492)
Firestone Tire & Rubber Company founded. (1900)
World War I: Germany declares war against France. (1914)
Whittaker Chambers accuses Alger Hiss of being a communist and a spy for the Soviet Union. (1948)
The nuclear submarine USS Nautilus travels beneath the Arctic ice cap. (1958)
U.S. Senate ratifies the Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty. (1972)
United States Senate hearing on MKULTRA. (1977)
U.S. air traffic controllers went on strike, despite a warning from President Ronald Reagan that they would be fired. (1981)
The Iran-Contra congressional hearings ended with none of the 29 witnesses tying President Ronald Reagan directly to the diversion of arms-sales profits to Nicaraguan rebels. (1987)
The Senate voted 96-3 to confirm Ruth Bader Ginsburg to the Supreme Court. (1993)
Stephen G. Breyer was sworn in as a Supreme Court justice. (1994)
The Real IRA detonate a car bomb in Ealing, London, U.K injuring seven people. (2001)
The pedestal of the Statue of Liberty reopens after being closed since the September 11 attacks. (2004)