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- 1435
- Leeuwarden is granted city privileges in Frisia, replacing the 8th-century villages of Oldehove, Nijehove, and Hoek.
- 1795
- Chapel Royal holds its first service in Brighton.
- 1795
- The Treaty of Greenville establishes the Greenville Treaty Line between the United States' Northwest Territory and dozens of indigenous bands and tribes.
- 1918
- Australia House is dedicated as the seat of the High Commission of Australia.
- 1948
- U.S. Highway 62 is straightened west of Prague, Oklahoma.
- 1950
- Missouri and Kansas exchange territory along the Missouri River to accommodate shifts in the river's course following a flood in 1944.
- 1951
- Tacurong becomes a municipality in Cotabato, Philippines.
This is a selection of establishments and disestablishments on August 3, based on OpenHistoricalMap data, that automatically appears on the OpenHistoricalMap page on August 3 of each year. This list highlights important changes in the world, as well as more mundane events that demonstrate the project's ambitious tendency toward micromapping history.
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