This Day in History

August 3rd in History

Jesse Owens wins at the Berlin Olympics! Kenesaw Mountain Landis fines Standard Oil $30 million and bans the Black Sox, and Chambers says Hiss is a spy. Ernie Pyle and John Scopes are born; Flannery O'Connor and Lenny Bruce die. Happy Watermelon Day!

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Quote of the Day

"Much of what we see in the universe...starts out as imaginary. Often you must imagine something before you can come to terms with it."

Clifford D. Simak, science fiction writer born August 3, 1904