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 215th day of the year 2025 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 150 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Sunday.
Under the Julian calendar, this day is July 21, 2025 – a Sunday. Both day of the week are the same but did you notice the difference with the Gregorian calendar?
When this day started, 1,754,179,200 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 ‘dihectadecapentagon’ 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 198 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 4,608 days since this fabled cataclysmic event.
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August 3 Historical Events
- 1031 –Olaf II of Norway is canonised as Saint Olaf by Grimketel, the English Bishop of Selsey.
- 1860 –The Second Maori War begins in New Zealand.
- 1913 –A major labour dispute, known as the Wheatland Hop Riot, starts in Wheatland, California.
- 1940 –World War II: Italian forces begin the invasion of British Somaliland.
- 1972 –The United States Senate ratifies the Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty.
- 1977 –The United States Senate begins its hearing on Project MKULTRA.
- 1981 –Senegalese opposition parties, under the leadership of Mamadou Dia, launch the Antiimperialist Action Front-Suxxali Reew Mi.
- 2001 –The Real IRA detonates a car bomb in Ealing, London, United Kingdom injuring seven people.
- 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?
- 1832 –Ivan Zajc, Croatian composer (d. 1914)
- 1872 –King Haakon VII of Norway (d. 1957)
- 1920 –Charlie Shavers, American trumpet player (d. 1971)
- 1926 –Anthony Sampson, British journalist (d. 2004)
- 1937 –Duncan Sharpe, Pakistani cricketer
- 1966 –Eric Esch, American boxer
- 1977 –Óscar Pereiro, Spanish cyclist
- 1978 –Dimitrios Zografakis, Greek footballer
- 1980 –Tony Pashos, American football player
- 1988 –Leigh Tiffin, American football player
Who died on August 3?
- 1604 –Bernardino de Mendoza, Spanish military commander
- 1761 –Johann Matthias Gesner, German classical scholar (b. 1691)
- 1929 –Emile Berliner, German-born American telephone and recording pioneer (b. 1851)
- 1929 –Thorstein Veblen, American economist (b. 1857)
- 1966 –Lenny Bruce, American comedian (b. 1925)
- 1972 –Giannis Papaioannou, Turkey-born Greek musician and composer (b. 1913)
- 1993 –Chinmayananda, Indian Vedanta Swami (b. 1916)
- 1999 –Byron Farwell, American military historian (b. 1921)
- 2004 –Bob Murphy, American TV and radio broadcaster (b. 1924)
- 2008 –Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Russian writer (b. 1918)
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