August 3

August 3 is the 215th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (216th in leap years), with 150 days remaining.

Table of contents

1 Events

2 Births

3 Deaths

4 Holidays and observances

Events

1492 - Christopher Columbus sets sail from Palos, Spain.
1492 - The Jews were expelled from Spain
1678 - Robert LaSalle builds 1st ship in America, Griffon.
1860 - Second Maori War begins.
1900 - Firestone Tire & Rubber Company founded.
1914 - Germany declares war against France.
1916 - Sir Roger Casement hanged for his part in the Easter Rising.
1916 - Battle of Romani
1923 - Calvin Coolidge is inaugurated as the 30th President of the United States.
1940 - Italy invades British Somaliland.
1946 - National Basketball Association founded.
1948 - Whittaker Chambers accuses Alger Hiss of being a communist and a spy for the Soviet Union.
1949 - National Basketball Association formed.
1958 - nuclear submarine USS Nautilus travels beneath the Arctic ice cap.
1960 - Niger gains independence from France.
1972 - U.S. Senate ratifies Anti-ballistic missile treaty.
1975 - A privately chartered Boeing 707 impacts the mountainside near Agadir, Morocco killing 188
1981 - Professional Air Traffic Controllers Organization walks off the job. All 13,000 members will eventually be fired by President Ronald Reagan.
2000 - George W. Bush accepted the Republican presidential nomination at the party's convention in Philadelphia.

Births

1509 - Etienne Dolet, scholar and printer (d. 1546)
1692 - John Henley, clergyman (d. 1759)
1753 - Charles Stanhope, inventor of the calculator
1770 - King Friedrich Wilhelm III of Prussia (d. 1840)
1803 - Joseph Paxton, landscape gardener (d. 1865)
1808 - Hamilton Fish, politician (d. 1893
1823 - Union General Thomas F. Meagher
1833 - Auguste Schmidt, feminist and teacher (d. 1902)
1856 - Alfred Deakin, second Prime Minister of Australia (d. 1919)
1867 - Stanley Baldwin, British Prime Minister (d. 1947)
1872 - King Haakon VII of Norway (d. 1957)
1887 - Rupert Brooke, poet (d. 1915)
1894 - Harry Heilmann, Baseball Hall of Famer (d. 1951)
1900 - Ernie Pyle, war correspondent (d. 1945)
1900 - John T. Scopes, defendant in the Monkey Trial (d. 1970)
1901 - Stefan Wyszynski, primate of Poland (d. 1981)
1904 - Clifford D. Simak, science fiction author, (d. 1988)
1918 - Les Elgart, musician, bandleader
1920 - P.D. James, novelist
1923 - Shenouda III of Alexandria, Pope of the Coptic Orthodox Church
1924 - Leon Uris, novelist (d. 2003)
1926 - Tony Bennett, singer
1935 - Georgi Shonin, cosmonaut (d. 1997)
1936 - Edward Petherbridge, actor
1937 - Diane Wakoski, poet
1937 - Steven Berkoff, actor
1938 - Terry Wogan, presenter
1940 - Martin Sheen, actor
1940 - Lance Alworth, professional football player
1941 - Martha Stewart, home economist
1946 - Jack Straw, British politician
1948 - Jean-Pierre Raffarin, Prime Minister of France
1950 - John Landis, film director
1951 - Marcel Dionne, professional ice hockey player
1952 - Osvaldo Ardiles, footballer
1959 - Martin Atkins, drummer
1963 - James Hetfield, rock and roll musician, member of Metallica
1986 - Prince Louis Xavier Marie Guillaume, Prince of Luxembourg and of Nassau.

Deaths

1181 - Pope Alexander III
1546 - Etienne Dolet, scholar and printer (b. 1509)
1721 - Grinling Gibbons, master wood-worker (b. 1648)
1761 - Johann Matthias Gesner, scholar (b. 1691)
1780 - Etienne Bonnot de Condillac, philosopher (b. 1715)
1797 - Jeffrey Amherst, British military commander (b. 1717)
1867 - Philipp August Böckh, scholar and antiquarian (b. 1785)
1879 - Joseph Severn, English painter (b. 1793)
1924 - Joseph Conrad, writer (b. 1857)
1929 - Emil Berliner, telephone and recording pioneer (b. 1851)
1929 - Thorstein Veblen, economist (b. 1857)
1954 - Colette, novelist, playwright (b. 1873)
1964 - Flannery O'Connor, novelist (b. 1925)
1966 - Lenny Bruce, comedian (b. 1925)
1973 - Richard Marshall, Major General (b. 1895)
1977 - Alfred Lunt, actor (b. 1892)
1977 - Archbishop Makarios of Cyprus (b. 1913)
1983 - Carolyn Jones, actress (b. 1929)
1995 - Ida Lupino, actress, director (b. 1914)

Holidays and observances

Equatorial Guinea - Armed Forces Day
Niger - Independence Day

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