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
- 8 –Roman Empire general Tiberius defeats Dalmatae on the river Bathinus.
- 881 –Battle of Saucourt-en-Vimeu: Louis III of France defeats the Vikings, an event celebrated in the poem Ludwigslied.
- 1492 –Christopher Columbus sets sail from Palos de la Frontera, Spain.
- 1645 –Thirty Years’ War: the Second Battle of Nördlingen sees French forces defeating those of the Holy Roman Empire.
- 1811 –First ascent of Jungfrau, third highest summit in the Bernese Alps by brothers Johann Rudolf and Hieronymus Meyer.
- 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.
- 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.
- 1913 –A major labour dispute, known as the Wheatland Hop Riot, starts in Wheatland, California.
- 1914 –World War I: Germany declares war against France.
- 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.
- 1946 –Santa Claus Land, the world’s first themed amusement park, opens in Santa Claus, Indiana, US.
- 1960 –Niger gains independence from France.
- 1972 –The United States Senate ratifies the Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty.
- 1981 –Senegalese opposition parties, under the leadership of Mamadou Dia, launch the Antiimperialist Action Front-Suxxali Reew Mi.
- 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.
- 2004 –The pedestal of the Statue of Liberty reopens after being closed since the September 11 attacks.
- 2005 –Mahmoud Ahmadinejad becomes President of Iran.
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