Today is Monday, Aug. 3, the 215th day of 2026. There are 150 days left in the year.<\/p>\n
Today in history:In 1492, Christopher Columbus set sail from Palos, Spain, on his first voyage that took him to the present-day Americas.<\/p>\n
In 1852, in America\u2019s first intercollegiate sporting event, Harvard rowed past Yale to win the first Harvard-Yale Regatta.<\/p>\n
In 1916, Irish-born British diplomat Roger Casement, a strong advocate of independence for Ireland, was hanged for treason.<\/p>\n
In 1936, American Jesse Owens won the first of his four gold medals at the Berlin Olympics as he took the 100-meter sprint.<\/p>\n
In 1972, the U.S. Senate ratified the Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty between the United States and the Soviet Union.<\/p>\n
In 1977, the Tandy Corp. introduced the TRS-80, one of the first widely available home computers.<\/p>\n
In 1981, U.S. air traffic controllers went on strike, seeking pay and workplace improvements (two days later, President Ronald Reagan fired the 11,345 striking union members and barred them from federal employment).<\/p>\n
In 2004, the pedestal of the Statue of Liberty opened to visitors for the first time since 9\/11.<\/p>\n
In 2018, Las Vegas police said they were closing their investigation into the Oct. 1, 2017, shooting that left 58 people dead at a country music festival without a definitive answer for why Stephen Paddock unleashed gunfire from a hotel suite onto the concert crowd.<\/p>\n
In 2019, a gunman opened fire at a Walmart store in El Paso, Texas, resulting in the deaths of 23 people; after surrendering, the gunman told detectives he targeted \u201cMexicans\u201d and had outlined the plot in a screed published online shortly before the attack.<\/p>\n
In 2021, New York\u2019s state attorney general said an investigation found Gov. Andrew Cuomo had sexually harassed multiple current and former state government employees; the report stepped up pressure from fellow Democrats for Cuomo to resign, and he did so a week later.<\/p>\n
In 2022, U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi arrived in Taiwan, becoming the highest-ranking American official in 25 years to visit the self-ruled island claimed by China.<\/p>\n
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