On the afternoon of August 3, 1914, two days after declaring war on Russia, Germany declares war on France. Hours later, France makes its own declaration of war against Germany, readying its troops to move into the provinces of Alsace and Lorraine, which it had forfeited to Germany in the settlement that ended the Franco-Prussian War in 1871.
In 1936, Jesse Owens of the United States won the first of his four gold medals at the Berlin Olympics as he took the 100-meter sprint.
In 1949, the National Basketball Association was formed as a merger of the Basketball Association of America and the National Basketball League.
in 1982, Michael Hardwick is arrested for sodomy after a police officer observes him having sex with another man in his own bedroom in Georgia. Although the district attorney eventually dropped the charges, Hardwick decided to challenge the constitutionality of Georgia’s law.
In 1993, the Senate voted 96-to-three to confirm Supreme Court nominee Ruth Bader Ginsburg.
In 1999, Patsy Cline received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. Prior to her death at the age of 30 in a private plane crash, she was at the height of her career. She is considered to be one of the most influential, successful, and acclaimed female vocalists of the 20th century. Some of the more notable hits she had during her lifetime began in 1957 with Donn Hecht’s ‘Walkin’ After Midnight’ Harlan Howard’s ‘I Fall to Pieces’, Hank Cochran’s ‘She’s Got You’, Willie Nelson’s ‘Crazy’, and ended in 1963 with Don Gibson’s ‘Sweet Dreams’.
In 2004, the Statue of Liberty pedestal in New York City reopened to the public for the first time since the 9/11 attacks.
In 2018, Las Vegas police said they were closing their investigation into the Oct. 1 shooting at a country music festival without a definitive answer for why Stephen Paddock unleashed gunfire from a hotel suite onto the concert crowd.
In 2023, former President Donald J. Trump was formerly arraigned on four felony charges including Obstruction of an Official Proceeding and Conspiracy to Defraud in Washington D.C. District Court.