About August 3
August 3, 2024 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.
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Leo is the sun 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.
What Happened On August 3
- 435 –Deposed Patriarch of Constantinople Nestorius, considered the originator of Nestorianism, is exiled by Roman Emperor Theodosius II to a monastery in Egypt.
- 881 –Battle of Saucourt-en-Vimeu: Louis III of France defeats the Vikings, an event celebrated in the poem Ludwigslied.
- 1527 –The first known letter from North America is sent by John Rut while at St. John’s, Newfoundland.
- 1601 –Long War: Austria captures Transylvania in the Battle of Guruslău.
- 1645 –Thirty Years’ War: the Second Battle of Nördlingen sees French forces defeating those of the Holy Roman Empire.
- 1678 –Robert LaSalle builds the Le Griffon, the first known ship built on the Great Lakes.
- 1783 –Mount Asama erupts in Japan, killing 35,000 people.
- 1852 –Harvard wins the first Boat Race between Yale and Harvard. The race is also the first American intercollegiate athletic event
- 1860 –The Second Maori War begins in New Zealand.
- 1900 –The Firestone Tire & Rubber Company is founded.
- 1903 –Macedonian rebels in Kruševo proclaim the Kruševo Republic, which exists only for 10 days before Ottoman Turks lay waste to the town.
- 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.
- 1936 –A fire wipes out Kursha-2 in the Meshchera Lowlands, Ryazan Oblast, Russia, killing 1,200 and leaving only 20 survivors.
- 1946 –Santa Claus Land, the world’s first themed amusement park, opens in Santa Claus, Indiana, US.
- 1959 –Portugal’s state police force PIDE fires upon striking workers in Bissau, Portuguese Guinea, killing over 50 people.
- 1972 –The United States Senate ratifies the Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty.
- 1977 –The United States Senate begins its hearing on Project MKULTRA.
- 1997 –Oued El-Had and Mezouara massacre in Algeria; a total of 116 villagers killed, 40 in Oued El-Had and 76 in Mezouara.
- 2001 –The Real IRA detonates a car bomb in Ealing, London, United Kingdom injuring seven people.
- 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.
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