What are the important events that happened on August 3? Here are historical events, facts, and some myths about this day.
August 3: Facts & Myths About This Day
August 3 is the 216th day of the year 2024 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 150 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Saturday.
Under the Julian calendar, this day is July 21, 2024 – a Saturday. Both day of the week are the same but did you notice the difference with the Gregorian calendar?
When this day started, 1,722,643,200 seconds has elapsed since midnight of January 1, 1970 – the Unix epoch.
Strange as it may, if we name this day after a polygon then it will be called ‘dihectadecahexagon’ day.
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Leo is the zodiac sign of a person born on this day. Peridot is the modern birthstone for this month. Diamond is the mystical birthstone from Tibetan origin that dates back over a thousand years.
According to the lunisolar Chinese calendar, there are 179 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.
The ancient Maya civilization believes that the end of the world will happen on December 21, 2012. There are now 4,243 days since this fabled cataclysmic event.
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August 3 Historical Events
- 8 –Roman Empire general Tiberius defeats Dalmatae on the river Bathinus.
- 1492 –Christopher Columbus sets sail from Palos de la Frontera, Spain.
- 1678 –Robert LaSalle builds the Le Griffon, the first known ship built on the Great Lakes.
- 1811 –First ascent of Jungfrau, third highest summit in the Bernese Alps by brothers Johann Rudolf and Hieronymus Meyer.
- 1929 –Jiddu Krishnamurti, tapped to be the messianic “World Teacher”, shocks the Theosophy movement by dissolving the Order of the Star, the organisation built to support him.
- 1940 –World War II: Italian forces begin the invasion of British Somaliland.
- 1948 –Whittaker Chambers accuses Alger Hiss of being a communist and a spy for the Soviet Union.
- 1949 –The National Basketball Association is founded in the United States.
- 2005 –Mahmoud Ahmadinejad becomes President of Iran.
- 2005 –President of Mauritania Maaouya Ould Sid'Ahmed Taya is overthrown in a military coup while attending the funeral of King Fahd in Saudi Arabia.
Who were born on August 3?
- 1817 –Archduke Albert, Austrian general (d. 1895)
- 1915 –Frank Arthur Calder, Canadian politician and Nisga'a statesman (d. 2006)
- 1923 –Shenouda III of Alexandria, Pope of Coptic Christianity
- 1945 –Eamon Dunphy, Irish footballer
- 1949 –Philip Casnoff, American actor
- 1950 –John Landis, American film director
- 1951 –Jay North, American actor
- 1964 –Lucky Dube, South African reggae vocalist and keyboardist (d. 2007)
- 1983 –Mark Reynolds, American baseball player
- 1989 –Jules Bianchi, French racing driver
Who died on August 3?
- 1546 –Étienne Dolet, French scholar and printer (b. 1509)
- 1721 –Grinling Gibbons, Dutch-born English woodcarver (b. 1648)
- 1797 –Jeffrey Amherst, British military commander (b. 1717)
- 1877 –William Butler Ogden, American politician, 1st Mayor of Chicago (b. 1805)
- 1924 –Joseph Conrad, Polish-born British writer (b. 1857)
- 1990 –Betty Amann, German-born American actress (b. 1905)
- 1995 –Edward Whittemore, American writer (b. 1933)
- 1996 –Jørgen Garde, Danish admiral (b. 1939)
- 2002 –Niculiţă Secrieriu, Romanian painter (b. 1938)
- 2003 –Roger Voudouris, American singer and songwriter (b. 1954)
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