August 3: Independence Day in Niger (1960); Flag Day in Venezuela
Jesse Owens
- 1811 – A climbing team led by two German brothers became the first to reach the summit of the Jungfrau, one of the main summits of the Bernese Alps.
- 1913 – A strike by agricultural workers in Wheatland, California, US, degenerated into a riot, one of the first major farm labor confrontations in California.
- 1936 – African American athlete Jesse Owens (pictured) won the first of his four gold medals at the Berlin Summer Olympics, dashing Nazi leaders' hopes of Aryan domination.
- 1960 – Niger officially gained independence from France as part of the decolonization of the French Community.
- 2007 – Former Deputy Director of the Chilean secret police Raúl Iturriaga was captured after having been on the run following a conviction for kidnapping.
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