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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 1934 –
    Adolf Hitler becomes the supreme leader of Germany by joining the offices of President and Chancellor into Führer.
  • 1936 –
    A fire wipes out Kursha-2 in the Meshchera Lowlands, Ryazan Oblast, Russia, killing 1,200 and leaving only 20 survivors.
  • 1948 –
    Whittaker Chambers accuses Alger Hiss of being a communist and a spy for the Soviet Union.
  • 1949 –
    The National Basketball Association is founded in the United States.
  • 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.
  • 2005 –
    Mahmoud Ahmadinejad becomes President of Iran.
  • 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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