On this day: August 3

August 3: Civic Holiday in most areas of Canada (2015); Independence Day in Niger (1960); Flag Day in Venezuela

Roger Casement

• 1795 – The United States signed the Treaty of Greenville with the Western Confederacy coalition of Native Americans, ending the Northwest Indian War.
• 1916 – Irish nationalist Sir Roger Casement (pictured) was hanged at London's Pentonville Prison for treason for his role in the Easter Rising, a rebellion to win Irish independence from Britain.
• 1940 – World War II: Italy began their invasion of British Somaliland.
• 1960 – Niger officially gained independence from France as part of the decolonization of the French Community.
• 2005 – Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, the former Mayor of Tehran, began his term as the sixth President of Iran.

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