August 3

Worst floods hit major parts of Slovenia.

Six hundred protesters, including opposition leader Lyubov Sobol, are arrested in an election protest in Moscow, Russia.

Twenty-three people are killed and 22 injured in a mass shooting in El Paso, Texas.

Two burka-clad men kill 29 people and injure more than 80 in a suicide attack on a Shia mosque in eastern Afghanistan.

A 6.1 magnitude earthquake kills at least 617 people and injures more than 2,400 in Yunnan, China.

The genocide of Yazidis by ISIL begins.

Widespread rioting erupts in Karachi, Pakistan, after the assassination of a local politician, leaving at least 85 dead and at least 17 billion Pakistani rupees (US$200 million) in damage.

Former deputy director of the Chilean secret police Raúl Iturriaga is captured after having been on the run following a conviction for kidnapping.

President of Mauritania Maaouya Ould Sid'Ahmed Taya is overthrown in a military coup while attending the funeral of King Fahd in Saudi Arabia.

The pedestal of the Statue of Liberty reopens after being closed since the September 11 attacks.

Oued El-Had and Mezouara massacre in Algeria: A total of 116 villagers killed, 40 in Oued El-Had and 76 in Mezouara.

The tallest free-standing structure in the Southern Hemisphere, Sky Tower in downtown Auckland, New Zealand, opens after two-and-a-half years of construction.

Senegalese opposition parties, under the leadership of Mamadou Dia, launch the Antiimperialist Action Front – Suxxali Reew Mi.

Tandy Corporation announces the TRS-80, one of the world's first mass-produced personal computers.

A privately chartered Boeing 707 strikes a mountain peak and crashes near Agadir, Morocco, killing 188.

The United States Senate ratifies the Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty.

Niger gains independence from France.

Portugal's state police force PIDE fires upon striking workers in Bissau, Portuguese Guinea, killing over 50 people.

The world's first nuclear submarine, the USS Nautilus, becomes the first vessel to complete a submerged transit of the geographical North Pole.

The Basketball Association of America and the National Basketball League finalize the merger that would create the National Basketball Association.

Whittaker Chambers accuses Alger Hiss of being a communist and a spy for the Soviet Union.

Santa Claus Land, the world's first themed amusement park, opens in Santa Claus, Indiana, United States.

World War II: Italian forces begin the invasion of British Somaliland.

Jesse Owens wins the 100 metre dash, defeating Ralph Metcalfe, at the Berlin Olympics.

A fire wipes out Kursha-2 in the Meshchera Lowlands, Ryazan Oblast, Russia, killing 1,200 and leaving only 20 survivors.

Major League Baseball Commissioner Kenesaw Mountain Landis confirms the ban of the eight Chicago Black Sox, the day after they were acquitted by a Chicago court.

World War I: Germany declares war against France, while Romania declares its neutrality.

Judge Kenesaw Mountain Landis fines Standard Oil of Indiana a record $29.4 million for illegal rebating to freight carriers; the conviction and fine are later reversed on appeal.

Macedonian rebels in Kruševo proclaim the Kruševo Republic, which exists for only ten days before Ottoman Turks lay waste to the town.

The Firestone Tire and Rubber Company is founded.

The American Dental Association is founded in Niagara Falls, New York.

Harvard University wins the first Boat Race between Yale University and Harvard. The race is also known as the first ever American intercollegiate athletic event.

The Treaty of Lewistown is signed by the Shawnee and Seneca peoples, exchanging land in Ohio for land west of the Mississippi River.

First ascent of Jungfrau, third highest summit in the Bernese Alps by brothers Johann Rudolf and Hieronymus Meyer.

Treaty of Greenville is signed, ending the Northwest Indian War in the Ohio Country.

The theatre La Scala in Milan is inaugurated with the première of Antonio Salieri's Europa riconosciuta.

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

Thirty Years' War: The Second Battle of Nördlingen sees French forces defeating those of the Holy Roman Empire.

Long War: Austria captures Transylvania in the Battle of Goroszló.

The first known letter from North America is sent by John Rut while at St. John's, Newfoundland.

Christopher Columbus sets sail from Palos de la Frontera, Spain.

The Siege of Algeciras commences during the Spanish Reconquista.

Frederick of Lorraine elected as Pope Stephen IX.

Olaf II of Norway is canonized as Saint Olaf by Grimketel, the English Bishop of Selsey.

Battle of Eisenach: An invading Hungarian force defeats an East Frankish army under Duke Burchard of Thuringia.

Battle of Saucourt-en-Vimeu: Louis III of France defeats the Vikings, an event celebrated in the poem Ludwigslied.

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

Roman Empire general Tiberius defeats the Dalmatae on the river Bosna.