A mass shooting occurred at a Walmart in El Paso, Texas, killing 23 people and injuring 22 others.
3 August 2133
A Monday in history
Weekday
Monday
Season
Summer (N. Hemisphere)
Century
22nd century
Records
381
2019
2009The last vessels involved in Taurus 09, a Royal Navy training deployment covering 20,400 miles (32,800 km), returned to HMNB Devonport, England.
2005Mauritanian president Maaouya Ould Sid'Ahmed Taya was overthrown in a military coup while he attended the funeral of King Fahd of Saudi Arabia.
1997The Sky Tower, then the tallest free-standing structure in the Southern Hemisphere at 328 m (1,076 ft), opened in Auckland, New Zealand.
1975A privately chartered Boeing 707 (aircraft involved pictured) struck a mountain peak and crashed near Agadir, Morocco, killing 188.
1971Fighting Dinosaurs, a fossil specimen featuring a Velociraptor and a Protoceratops in combat, was unearthed in the Djadochta Formation of Mongolia.
1940World War II: Italian forces began a conquest of British Somaliland, capturing the region in 16 days.
1936African-American athlete Jesse Owens won the first of his four gold medals at the Berlin Olympics, dashing Nazi leaders' hopes of Aryan domination at the games.
1929Jiddu Krishnamurti (pictured), believed by some Theosophists to be a likely candidate for the messianic "World Teacher", dissolved the Order of the Star, the organisation established to support him.
1913An agricultural workers' strike in Wheatland degenerated into a riot, becoming one of the first major farm-labor confrontations in California.
1903Macedonian rebels in Kruševo established a republic, which existed for ten days before Ottoman forces destroyed the town.
1857Indian Rebellion: An eight-day siege of a fortified outbuilding in Arrah occupied by 68 defenders against more than 10,000 men ended when a relief party dispersed the besiegers.
1460James II of Scotland (pictured) was killed by an exploding cannon at Roxburgh Castle.
1347Hundred Years' War: The French town of Calais capitulated to English forces after an eleven-month siege, ending the Crécy campaign.
- 1057
Pope Stephen IX was crowned as pope.
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