Kantor on 03 August 2009
Let's see. On your birthday:
August 3: Civic Holiday in most areas of Canada (2009); Emancipation Day in various Caribbean countries (2009); Independence Day in Niger; Flag Day in Venezuela
- 435 – Nestorius, the originator of Nestorianism, was exiled by Byzantine Emperor Theodosius II to a monastery in Egypt.
- 1916 – Irish nationalist Sir Roger Casement was hanged at London's Pentonville Prison for treason for his role in the Easter Rising, a rebellion to win Irish independence from Britain.
- 1948 – Before the House Un-American Activities Committee of the United States House of Representatives, former spy turned government informer Whittaker Chambers (pictured) accused U.S. State Department official Alger Hiss of being a communist and a Soviet spy.
- 1949 – The Basketball Association of America agreed to merge with the National Basketball League to form the National Basketball Association.
- 2005 – President Maaouya Ould Sid'Ahmed Taya of Mauritania was overthrown in a military coup while he was attending the funeral of King Fahd in Saudi Arabia.