August 3 in history: • 1460 – James II of Scotland (pictured) was killed by an exploding cannon at Roxburgh Castle. → go there • 1903 – Macedonian rebels in Kruševo established a republic, which existed for ten days before Ottoman forces destroyed the town. → go there • 1936 – African-American athlete Jesse Owens won the first of his four gold medals at the Berlin Olympics, dashing Nazi leaders' hopes of Aryan domination at the games. → go there • 1971 – Fighting Dinosaurs, a fossil specimen featuring a Velociraptor and a Protoceratops in combat, was unearthed in the Djadochta Formation of Mongolia. → go there • 2005 – Mauritanian president Maaouya Ould Sid'Ahmed Taya was overthrown in a military coup while he attended the funeral of King Fahd of Saudi Arabia. → go there Born 1924: Connie Converse Wiki link Born 1926: Tony Bennett Wiki link Died 1963: Signe Salén Wiki link Born 1970: Masahiro Sakurai Wiki link Pictured: James II of Scotland.