CoM Moderators Posted August 3, 2023 Posted August 3, 2023 1880 - American Canoe Association founded at Lake George, NY, first Commodore William L. Alden1914 - British Foreign Secretary Edward Grey famously remarks "The lamps are going out all over Europe. We shall not see them lit again in our time."1940 - Lithuanian SSR is accepted into USSR1944 - Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp gases 4,000 gypsies1949 - Basketball Association of America (BAA) and National Basketball League (NBL) merge to form National Basketball Association (NBA), Maurice Podoloff elected head of new league1975 - Poland and West Germany reach accord about returning ethnic Germans1979 - Fastest jai-alai shot (188 mph), Jose Arieto at Newport Jai Alai, Rhode Island1998 - The Oval stages first competitive cricket match played under floodlights in London when home team Surrey loses to Sussex by 8 wickets in the day/night 40-over fixture1998 - Irish band Boyzone release their best-selling single "No Matter What" composed by Andrew Lloyd Webber and Jim Steinman2000 - South Africa's Truth and Reconciliation Commission's Amnesty Committee grants amnesty to Curnick Ndlovu, the KwaZulu-Natal leader of the African National Congress and United Democratic Front, for committing sabotage during December 1961 and June 1963 near Durban More Historical Events »
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