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| Aaron Burr |
Aug. 3, 1492 - Columbus set sail from Palos, Spain, with
three small ships, the Santa María, the Pinta, and the Niña.
Aug. 3, 1807 – After his arrest in present day Washington
County, Ala., Aaron Burr was officially charged with treason in the U.S. Circuit
Court in Richmond, Va.
Aug. 3, 1823 - Thomas Francis Meagher, an Irish
revolutionary who later served as a general in the Union army during the U.S.
Civil War, was born in Waterford, Ireland.
Aug. 3, 1919 – During World War I, Army Cpl. Frank Rutherford of Greenville "died
from disease."
Aug. 3, 1923 - Calvin Coolidge was sworn in as the 30th
president of the United States, hours after the death of President Warren G.
Harding, who was the great-grandson of Henchie Warren of Conecuh County.
Aug. 3, 1958 - The U.S. nuclear submarine Nautilus
accomplished the first undersea voyage to the geographic North Pole. The
world's first nuclear submarine, the Nautilus dived at Point Barrow,
Alaska, and traveled nearly 1,000 miles under the Arctic ice cap to reach the
top of the world. It then steamed on to Iceland, pioneering a new and shorter
route from the Pacific to the Atlantic and Europe.
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