📜 This Day in History

August 3

• 1057Pope Stephen IX was crowned as pope.
• 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.
• 1929Jiddu Krishnamurti, 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.
• 1940World War II: Italian forces began a conquest of British Somaliland, capturing the region in 16 days.
• 1997The Sky Tower, then the tallest free-standing structure in the Southern Hemisphere at 328 m (1,076 ft), opened in Auckland, New Zealand.
• 2019A mass shooting occurred at a Walmart in El Paso, Texas, killing 23 people and injuring 22 others.

Born on this day

• 1867Stanley Baldwin, English businessman and politician, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (died 1947)
• 1903Habib Bourguiba, Tunisian journalist and politician, 1st President of the Republic of Tunisia (died 2000)
• 1963James Hetfield, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
• 1979Evangeline Lilly, Canadian actress