August 3, 1492
The Italian explorer Christopher Columbusstarted his first voyage across the Atlantic Ocean.
Two months later (Oct 12), he saw a Bahamian island and believed
he had reached East Asia.
Aug 3, 1924
Joseph Conrad（康拉德）,
the Polish-British writer, one of the greatest novelists to write in the
English language, died at age 66.
Aug 3, 2008
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn（索尔仁尼琴），the Russian novelist, and one of the most famous
Soviet dissidents, died at age 89.
He was awarded the 1970 Nobel Prize in Literature.
* Solzhenitsyn - 台湾译“索忍尼辛”