August 03 AD 8 Roman Empire general Tiberius defeats the Dalmatae on the river Bosna.
August 03 908 Battle of Eisenach: An invading Hungarian force defeats an East Frankish army under Duke Burchard of Thuringia.
August 03 1342 The Siege of Algeciras commences during the Spanish Reconquista.
August 03 1601 Long War: Austria captures Transylvania in the Battle of Goroszló.
August 03 1645 Thirty Years' War: The Second Battle of Nördlingen sees French forces defeating those of the Holy Roman Empire.
August 03 1692 French forces under Marshal Luxembourg defeat the English at the Battle of
Steenkerque in the Netherlands.
August 03 1862 Union General John Pope captures Orange Court House, Virginia.
August 03 1864 Federal gunboats attack but do not capture Fort Gains
August 03 1914 Germany declares war on France.
August 03 1940 The British launched Operation Pedestal, an effort to get desperately needed supplies to Malta.
August 03 1942 German submarine U-335 was torpedoed and sunk by the British submarine Saracen.
August 03 1942 American destroyer USS Tucker struck a mine off Espiritu Santo and sank early on
August 4
August 03 1945 Chinese troops under US General Joseph Stilwell recover the town of Myitkyina from the Japanese.
August 03 1958 USS Nautilus passes under the North Pole.The first nuclear submarine to do so
August 03 1972 The United States Senate ratifies the Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty.
August 03 2005 President of Mauritania Maaouya Ould Sid'Ahmed Taya is overthrown in a military coup
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