What happened on 3 August?

6 events from the Ever-When timeline, ranked by how much they mattered.

1. 1914 Germany declares war on France Western Front opens.
2. 1492 First voyage of Columbus Three small ships, ninety men, and thirty-three days of open ocean on a crossing their commander has underestimated by three-quarters — to landfall in the Bahamas, the first Atlant
3. 1492 Columbus sails from Palos After seven years of rejection — by Portugal twice, by Spain's own commissions — Columbus finally sails at dawn from a small Andalusian port with the Niña, the Pinta and the Santa
4. 1977 Born: Tom Brady American footballer; seven Super Bowl titles.
5. 1914 Edward Grey's 'lamps are going out' Watching dusk fall over St James's Park on the evening Germany declares war on France, Britain's foreign secretary speaks the war's most quoted epitaph in advance: 'The lamps are g
6. 1916 Roger Casement is hanged The knighted humanitarian who exposed the Congo's horrors is hanged in Pentonville for landing from a German submarine to aid the Rising — his reputation attacked at trial with lea