About August 3

August 3, 2025 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.

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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 198 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.
  • 1031 –
    Olaf II of Norway is canonised as Saint Olaf by Grimketel, the English Bishop of Selsey.
  • 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.
  • 1811 –
    First ascent of Jungfrau, third highest summit in the Bernese Alps by brothers Johann Rudolf and Hieronymus Meyer.
  • 1860 –
    The Second Maori War begins in New Zealand.
  • 1900 –
    The Firestone Tire & Rubber Company is founded.
  • 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.
  • 1934 –
    Adolf Hitler becomes the supreme leader of Germany by joining the offices of President and Chancellor into Führer.
  • 1940 –
    World War II: Italian forces begin the invasion of British Somaliland.
  • 1946 –
    Santa Claus Land, the world’s first themed amusement park, opens in Santa Claus, Indiana, US.
  • 1949 –
    The National Basketball Association is founded in the United States.
  • 1959 –
    Portugal’s state police force PIDE fires upon striking workers in Bissau, Portuguese Guinea, killing over 50 people.
  • 1960 –
    Niger gains independence from France.
  • 1975 –
    A privately chartered Boeing 707 crashes into the mountainside near Agadir, Morocco, killing 188.
  • 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.

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