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What Happened on August 3rd This Day in History

Year	Name
2019	Six hundred protesters, including opposition leader Lyubov Sobol, are arrested in an election protest in Moscow, Russia.
2019	Twenty-three people are killed and 23 injured in a shooting in El Paso, Texas.[6]
2018	Two burka-clad men kill 29 people and injure more than 80 in a suicide attack on a Shia mosque in eastern Afghanistan.
2014	A 6.1 magnitude earthquake kills at least 617 people and injures more than 2,400 in Yunnan, China.
2014	The genocide of Yazidis by ISIL begins.
2010	Widespread rioting erupts in Karachi, Pakistan, after the assassination of a local politician, leaving at least 85 dead and at least 17 billion Pakistani rupees (US$200 million) in damage.
2007	Former deputy director of the Chilean secret police Raúl Iturriaga is captured after having been on the run following a conviction for kidnapping.
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.
2004	The pedestal of the Statue of Liberty reopens after being closed since the September 11 attacks.
1997	Oued El-Had and Mezouara massacre in Algeria: A total of 116 villagers killed, 40 in Oued El-Had and 76 in Mezouara.
1997	The tallest free-standing structure in the Southern Hemisphere, Sky Tower in downtown Auckland, New Zealand, opens after two-and-a-half years of construction.
1981	Senegalese opposition parties, under the leadership of Mamadou Dia, launch the Antiimperialist Action Front – Suxxali Reew Mi.
1977	Tandy Corporation announces the TRS-80, one of the world's first mass-produced personal computers.
1975	A privately chartered Boeing 707 strikes a mountain peak and crashes near Agadir, Morocco, killing 188.
1972	The United States Senate ratifies the Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty.
1960	Niger gains independence from France.
1959	Portugal's state police force PIDE fires upon striking workers in Bissau, Portuguese Guinea, killing over 50 people.
1958	The world's first nuclear submarine, the USS Nautilus, becomes the first vessel to complete a submerged transit of the geographical North Pole.
1949	The Basketball Association of America and the National Basketball League finalize the merger that would create the National Basketball Association.
1948	Whittaker Chambers accuses Alger Hiss of being a communist and a spy for the Soviet Union.
1946	Santa Claus Land, the world's first themed amusement park, opens in Santa Claus, Indiana, United States.
1940	World War II: Italian forces begin the invasion of British Somaliland.
1936	Jesse Owens wins the 100 metre dash, defeating Ralph Metcalfe, at the Berlin Olympics.
1936	A fire wipes out Kursha-2 in the Meshchera Lowlands, Ryazan Oblast, Russia, killing 1,200 and leaving only 20 survivors.
1921	Major League Baseball Commissioner Kenesaw Mountain Landis confirms the ban of the eight Chicago Black Sox, the day after they were acquitted by a Chicago court.
1914	World War I: Germany declares war against France, while Romania declares its neutrality.
1907	Judge Kenesaw Mountain Landis fines Standard Oil of Indiana a record $29.4 million for illegal rebating to freight carriers; the conviction and fine are later reversed on appeal.
1903	Macedonian rebels in Kruševo proclaim the Kruševo Republic, which exists for only ten days before Ottoman Turks lay waste to the town.
1900	The Firestone Tire and Rubber Company is founded.
1859	The American Dental Association is founded in Niagara Falls, New York.
1852	Harvard University wins the first Boat Race between Yale University and Harvard. The race is also known as the first ever American intercollegiate athletic event.
1829	The Treaty of Lewistown is signed by the Shawnee and Seneca peoples, exchanging land in Ohio for land west of the Mississippi River.
1811	First ascent of Jungfrau, third highest summit in the Bernese Alps by brothers Johann Rudolf and Hieronymus Meyer.
1795	Treaty of Greenville is signed, ending the Northwest Indian War in the Ohio Country.
1778	The theatre La Scala in Milan is inaugurated with the première of Antonio Salieri's Europa riconosciuta.
1678	Robert LaSalle builds the Le Griffon, the first known ship built on the Great Lakes.
1645	Thirty Years' War: The Second Battle of Nördlingen sees French forces defeating those of the Holy Roman Empire.
1601	Long War: Austria captures Transylvania in the Battle of Goroszló.
1527	The first known letter from North America is sent by John Rut while at St. John's, Newfoundland.
1492	Christopher Columbus sets sail from Palos de la Frontera, Spain.
1342	The Siege of Algeciras commences during the Spanish Reconquista.
1057	Frederik van Lotharingen elected as first Belgian Pope Stephen IX.
1031	Olaf II of Norway is canonized as Saint Olaf by Grimketel, the English Bishop of Selsey.
908	Battle of Eisenach: An invading Hungarian force defeats an East Frankish army under Duke Burchard of Thuringia.
881	Battle of Saucourt-en-Vimeu: Louis III of France defeats the Vikings, an event celebrated in the poem Ludwigslied.
435	Deposed Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople Nestorius, considered the originator of Nestorianism, is exiled by Roman Emperor Theodosius II to a monastery in Egypt.
8	Roman Empire general Tiberius defeats the Dalmatae on the river Bosna.

Famous People Born on August 3

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Year	Name
1924	Leon Uris, American soldier and author (d. 2003)
1920	Norman Dewis, English test driver and engineer (d. 2019)
1994	Manaia Cherrington, New Zealand rugby league player
1900	Ernie Pyle, American soldier and journalist (d. 1945)
1981	Travis Bowyer, American baseball player
1920	Charlie Shavers, American trumpet player and composer (d. 1971)
1988	Leigh Tiffin, American football player
1856	Alfred Deakin, Australian lawyer and politician, 2nd Prime Minister of Australia (d. 1919)
1960	Tim Mayotte, American tennis player and coach
1803	Joseph Paxton, English gardener and architect, designed The Crystal Palace (d. 1865)

Famous People Deaths On August 3

Here is a list of some famous peope who died on August 3. For full list please click on the link above.

Date	Name
1621	Guillaume du Vair, French lawyer and author (b. 1556)
1961	Hilda Rix Nicholas, Australian artist (b. 1884)
2013	John Coombs, English-Monegasque race car driver and businessman (b. 1922)
2014	Miangul Aurangzeb, Pakistani captain and politician, 19th Governor of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (b. 1928)
1805	Christopher Anstey, English author and poet (b. 1724)
1997	Pietro Rizzuto, Italian-Canadian lawyer and politician (b. 1934)
1761	Johann Matthias Gesner, German scholar and academic (b. 1691)
1460	James II, king of Scotland (b. 1430)
1780	Étienne Bonnot de Condillac, French epistemologist and philosopher (b. 1715)
2004	Henri Cartier-Bresson, French photographer and painter (b. 1908)