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| August 3rd, 2005 (August 03 2005) | Event | President Maaouya Ould Sid Ahmed Taya of Mauritania is overthrown in a military coup while attending the funeral of King Fahd in Saudi Arabia. | |
| August 3rd, 2005 (August 03 2005) | Death | Francoise d Eaubonne, French feminist (born in 1920) | |
| August 3rd, 1995 (August 03 1995) | Death | Ida Lupino, English actress and director (born in 1914) | |
| August 3rd, 1995 (August 03 1995) | Death | Edward Whittemore, American writer (born in 1933) | |
| August 3rd, 1985 (August 03 1985) | Birth | Sonny Bill Williams, New Zealand rugby league footballer | |
| August 3rd, 1975 (August 03 1975) | Event | A privately chartered Boeing 707 impacts the mountainside near Agadir, Morocco killing 188. | |
| August 3rd, 1975 (August 03 1975) | Birth | Aryiro Strataki, Greek heptathlete | |
| August 3rd, 1945 (August 03 1945) | Birth | Eamon Dunphy, former Irish footballer | |
| August 3rd, 1935 (August 03 1935) | Birth | Georgi Shonin, Soviet cosmonaut (died in 1997) | |
| August 3rd, 1925 (August 03 1925) | Birth | Marv Levy, American football coach | |
| August 3rd, 1915 (August 03 1915) | Birth | Frank Arthur Calder, Canadian politician (died in 2006) | |
| August 3rd, 1915 (August 03 1915) | Birth | Pete Newell, American basketball coach | |
| August 3rd, 1905 (August 03 1905) | Birth | Dolores del Rio, Mexican-born actress (died in 1983) | |
| August 3rd, 1905 (August 03 1905) | Birth | Franz Cardinal Konig, Austrian Catholic archbishop (died in 2004) | |
| August 3rd, 1895 (August 03 1895) | Birth | Marguerite Nichols, American actress (died in 1941) | |
| August 3rd, 1805 (August 03 1805) | Death | Christopher Anstey, English writer (born in 1724) | |
| August 3rd, 1645 (August 03 1645) | Event | Thirty Years War: Second Battle of Nordlingen (Battle of Allerheim)A French army under the command of Louis de Bourbon, Duc d Enghien and Marshal Henri, Vicomte de Turenne attacks and defeats an Imperial army, led by Field Marshal Franz Baron (Freiherr) von Mercy at Alerheim, near Nordlingen, Germany. | |
| August 3rd, 1635 (August 03 1635) | Event | The third of the Tokugawa shoguns, Iemitsu, establishes the system of alternate attendance (sankin kotai) by which the feudal daimyo are required to spend one year at Edo Castle in Tokyo and one year back home at their feudal manor, while their families remained in Tokyo as virtual political hostages. (Traditional Japanese Date: June 21, 1635). | |
| August 3rd, 0435 (August 03 0435) | Event | Deposed Patriarch of Constantinople Nestorius, considered the originator of Nestorianism, was exiled by Byzantine Emperor Theodosius II to a monastery in Egypt. | |
