SATURDAY, AUGUST 3, 2019

1852 ― First intercollegiate rowing race, Harvard beats Yale by 4 lengths

1914 ― Germany invades Belgium, declares war on France in WWI

1952 ― Fifteenth Olympic Games close in Helsinki, Finland

1960 ― Niger gains independence from France

1963 ― Beatles final performance at the Cavern Club in Liverpool

1970 ― Mairiam Hargrave of Yorkshire passes her driving test on 40th try

1973 ― Flash fire kills 51 at amusement park (Isle of Man, U.K.)

1975 ― 500 drown when two river boats collide and sink in China's West River

1983 ― John Sain of South Bend, Indiana, builds 3.91-meter house of cards

1988 ― Skip Storch swims 246 kilometers of Hudson River from Albany to New York City

1989 ― Lawrence Delisle drives his four kids into river

1990 ― Radio Kuwait goes off the air, due to the Iraqi invasion, U.S. announces commitment of Naval forces to Gulf regions