About August 3

August 3, 2021 is the 215th day of the year 2021 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 150 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Tuesday.

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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 182 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.

What Happened On August 3

  • 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.
  • 1783 –
    Mount Asama erupts in Japan, killing 35,000 people.
  • 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.
  • 1900 –
    The Firestone Tire & Rubber Company is founded.
  • 1913 –
    A major labour dispute, known as the Wheatland Hop Riot, starts in Wheatland, California.
  • 1914 –
    World War I: Germany declares war against France.
  • 1936 –
    A fire wipes out Kursha-2 in the Meshchera Lowlands, Ryazan Oblast, Russia, killing 1,200 and leaving only 20 survivors.
  • 1936 –
    Jesse Owens wins the 100 meter dash, defeating Ralph Metcalfe, at the Berlin Olympics.
  • 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.
  • 1948 –
    Whittaker Chambers accuses Alger Hiss of being a communist and a spy for the Soviet Union.
  • 1972 –
    The United States Senate ratifies the Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty.
  • 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.
  • 1997 –
    Oued El-Had and Mezouara massacre in Algeria; a total of 116 villagers killed, 40 in Oued El-Had and 76 in Mezouara.
  • 2004 –
    The pedestal of the Statue of Liberty reopens after being closed since the September 11 attacks.
  • 2007 –
    Former Deputy Director of the Chilean secret police Raúl Iturriaga is captured after having been on the run following a conviction for kidnapping.

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