August 3rd Events |
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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, 2004 (August 03 2004) | Event | The pedestal of the Statue of Liberty reopens after being closed since the September 11, 2001 attacks. | |
| August 3rd, 2001 (August 03 2001) | Event | The Real IRA detonate a car bomb in Ealing, London, U.K injuring seven people. (See 3 August 2001 Ealing bombing). | |
| August 3rd, 1997 (August 03 1997) | Event | Oued El-Had and Mezouara massacre in Algeria; 40-76 villagers killed. | |
| August 3rd, 1996 (August 03 1996) | Event | General William F. Garrison accepted responsibility for the outcome of the 1993 raid in Somalia, and he retired from military service. | |
| August 3rd, 1981 (August 03 1981) | Event | In the United States, Air traffic controllers affiliated with the Professional Air Traffic Controllers Organization walk off the joborn in President Ronald Reagan ultimately responds by firing those who ignore his order to return to work. | Ronald Reagan Quotes |
| August 3rd, 1981 (August 03 1981) | Event | Senegalese opposition parties, under the leadership of Mamadou Dia, launches the Antiimperialist Action Front-Suxxali Reew Mi. | |
| August 3rd, 1977 (August 03 1977) | Event | United States Senate Hearing on MKULTRA. | |
| August 3rd, 1975 (August 03 1975) | Event | A privately chartered Boeing 707 impacts the mountainside near Agadir, Morocco killing 188. | |
| August 3rd, 1972 (August 03 1972) | Event | U.S. Senate ratifies the Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty. | |
| August 3rd, 1960 (August 03 1960) | Event | Niger gains independence from France. | |
| August 3rd, 1958 (August 03 1958) | Event | The nuclear submarine USS Nautilus travels beneath the Arctic ice cap. | |
| August 3rd, 1958 (August 03 1958) | Event | The Billboard Hot 100 is founded | |
| August 3rd, 1949 (August 03 1949) | Event | National Basketball Association is founded in the United States. | |
| August 3rd, 1948 (August 03 1948) | Event | Whittaker Chambers accuses Alger Hiss of being a communist and a spy for the Soviet Union. | |
| August 3rd, 1940 (August 03 1940) | Event | World War II: Italy invades British Somaliland. | |
| August 3rd, 1936 (August 03 1936) | Event | Jesse Owens wins the 100 meter dash by defeating Ralph Metcalfe at Berlin Olympics. | Jesse Owens Quotes |
| August 3rd, 1934 (August 03 1934) | Event | Adolf Hitler becomes the supreme leader of Germany by joining the offices of President and Chancellor into Fuhrer. | Adolf Hitler Quotes |
| August 3rd, 1923 (August 03 1923) | Event | The deceased Warren G. Harding was succeeded by Vice President Calvin Coolidge as the 30th President of the United States. | Warren G. Harding Quotes |
| August 3rd, 1916 (August 03 1916) | Event | World War I: Battle of RomaniAllied forces, under the command of Archibald Murray, defeat an attacking Ottoman army, under the command of Friedrich Freiherr Kress von Kressenstein, securing the Suez Canal, and beginning the Ottoman retreat from the Sinai. | Al Murray Quotes |
| August 3rd, 1914 (August 03 1914) | Event | World War I: Germany declares war against France. | |
| August 3rd, 1913 (August 03 1913) | Event | Wheatland Hop Riot | |
| August 3rd, 1900 (August 03 1900) | Event | Firestone Tire & Rubber Company founded. | |
| August 3rd, 1860 (August 03 1860) | Event | The Second Maori War begins in New Zealand. | |
| August 3rd, 1852 (August 03 1852) | Event | First Boat Race between Yale and Harvard, the first American intercollegiate athletic event. Harvard won. | |
| August 3rd, 1783 (August 03 1783) | Event | Mount Asama erupts in Japan, killing 35,000 people. | |
| August 3rd, 1678 (August 03 1678) | Event | Robert LaSalle builds the Le Griffon, the first known ship built in America. | |
| 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, 1527 (August 03 1527) | Event | First known letter was sent from North America by John Rut while at St. John s, Newfoundland. | |
| August 3rd, 1492 (August 03 1492) | Event | Christopher Columbus sets sail from Palos de la Frontera, Spain. | Christopher Columbus Quotes |
| August 3rd, 1492 (August 03 1492) | Event | The Jews of Spain are expelled by the Catholic Monarchs. | |
| August 3rd, 0881 (August 03 0881) | Event | Battle of Saucourt-en-Vimeu, where Louis III of France defeated the Vikings, an event celebrated in the poem Ludwigslied | |
| 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. | |
| August 3rd, 0008 (August 03 0008) | Event | Roman Empire general Tiberius defeats Dalmatians on the river Bathinus. | |
