August 3

August 3 is the 215th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (216th in leap years), with 150 days remaining.

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Events

• 1492 – Christopher Columbus sets sail from Palos de la Frontera, Spain.
• 1492 – The Jews of Spain are expelled by the Catholic Monarchs.
• 1645 – The Second Battle of Nördlingen, fought between the forces of France and the Holy Roman Empire.
• 1678 – Robert LaSalle builds the Griffon, the first known ship built in America.
• 1860 – Second Maori War begins in New Zealand.
• 1900 – Firestone Tire & Rubber Company founded.
• 1914 – First World War: Germany declares war against France.
• 1916 – First World War: Battle of Romani is fought between forces of the British Empire and the Ottoman Empire.
• 1923 – Calvin Coolidge is inaugurated as the 30th President of the United States.
• 1940 – Second World War: Italy invades British Somaliland.
• 1946 – National Basketball Association was founded in the United States.
• 1948 – Whittaker Chambers accuses Alger Hiss of being a communist and a spy for the Soviet Union.
• 1958 – Nuclear submarine USS Nautilus travels beneath the Arctic ice cap.
• 1960 – Niger gains independence from France.
• 1972 – U.S. Senate ratifies the Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty.
• 1973 – R&B singer Stevie Wonder releases the classic album Innervisions.
• 1975 – A privately chartered Boeing 707 impacts the mountainside near Agadir, Morocco killing 188.
• 1977 – United States Senate Hearing on MKULTRA.
• 1981 – In the United States, Professional Air Traffic Controllers Organization walks off the job. All 13,000 members will eventually be fired by President Ronald Reagan.
• 1983 – New York Yankee outfielder Dave Winfield accidentally killed a seagull during a baseball game and was charged by police for his "act of cruelty to animals". His manager Billy Martin quipped, "It's the first time he's hit the cutoff man."
• 1997 – Oued El-Had and Mezouara massacre in Algeria; 40–76 villagers killed.
• 2000 – George W. Bush accepts the Republican presidential nomination at the party's convention in Philadelphia.

Births

• 1509 – Étienne Dolet, scholar and printer (d. 1546)
• 1645 – August Kuhnel, composer
• 1692 – John Henley, clergyman (d. 1759)
• 1748 – Carl Ludwig Junker, composer
• 1753 – Charles Stanhope, inventor of the calculator
• 1770 – King Friedrich Wilhelm III of Prussia (d. 1840)
• 1801 – Joseph Paxton, landscape gardener (d. 1865)
• 1808 – Hamilton Fish, politician (d. 1893)
• 1811 – Elisha Graves Otis, inventor (safe elevator)
• 1817 – Archduke Albert, Austrian general
• 1823 – Thomas F. Meagher, Irish rebel, convict and escapee in Australia, US Union general
• 1833 – Auguste Schmidt, feminist and teacher (d. 1902)
• 1856 – Alfred Deakin, second Prime Minister of Australia (d. 1919)
• 1860 – W.K. Dickson, Scottish inventor (d. 1935)
• 1867 – Stanley Baldwin, British Prime Minister (d. 1947)
• 1872 – King Haakon VII of Norway (d. 1957)
• 1887 – Rupert Brooke, poet (d. 1915)
• 1894 – Harry Heilmann, Baseball Hall of Famer (d. 1951)
• 1900 – Ernie Pyle, war correspondent (d. 1945)
• 1900 – John T. Scopes, defendant in the Monkey Trial (d. 1970)
• 1901 – Stefan Wyszynski, primate of Poland (d. 1981)
• 1904 – Clifford D. Simak, science fiction author, (d. 1988)
• 1905 – Franz König, Roman Catholic archbishop of Vienna, important thinker at Vatican II and ultimately last surviving cardinal of John XXIII (d. 2004).
• 1918 – Sidney Gottlieb, Director of the CIA's Technical Services Staff. (d. 1999)
• 1918 – Les Elgart, musician, bandleader
• 1920 – P.D. James, novelist
• 1923 – Shenouda III of Alexandria, Pope of the Coptic Orthodox Church
• 1924 – Leon Uris, novelist (d. 2003)
• 1926 – Tony Bennett, singer
• 1935 – Georgi Shonin, cosmonaut (d. 1997)
• 1936 – Edward Petherbridge, actor
• 1937 – Diane Wakoski, poet
• 1937 – Steven Berkoff, British actor
• 1938 – Terry Wogan, presenter
• 1940 – Martin Sheen, American actor
• 1940 – Lance Alworth, American football player
• 1941 – Beverly Lee, singer (Shirelles)
• 1941 – Martha Stewart, home economist
• 1946 – Jack Straw, British politician
• 1948 – Jean-Pierre Raffarin, Prime Minister of France
• 1950 – John Landis, film director
• 1951 – Marcel Dionne, hockey player
• 1951 – Jay North, actor
• 1952 – Osvaldo Ardiles, footballer
• 1959 – Martin Atkins, drummer
• 1959 – Koichi Tanaka, Japanese scientist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry
• 1963 – James Hetfield, musician (Metallica)
• 1970 – Gina G, Australian singer
• 1977 – Tom Brady, American football player
• 1977 – Angela Beesley, British Internet entrepreneur
• 1986 – Prince Louis Xavier Marie Guillaume, Prince of Luxembourg and of Nassau

Deaths

• 1181 – Pope Alexander III
• 1546 – Étienne Dolet, scholar and printer (b. 1509)
• 1667 – Francesco Borromini, Swiss architect (b. 1599)
• 1721 – Grinling Gibbons, master wood-worker (b. 1648)
• 1761 – Johann Matthias Gesner, scholar (b. 1691)
• 1780 – Étienne Bonnot de Condillac, philosopher (b. 1715)
• 1792 – Richard Arkwright, industrialist, and inventor of the Water Frame (b. 1732)
• 1797 – Jeffrey Amherst, British military commander (b. 1717)
• 1857 – Eugène Sue, French novelist (b. 1804)
• 1867 – Philipp August Böckh, scholar and antiquarian (b. 1785)
• 1877 – William Butler Ogden, first mayor of Chicago (b.1805)
• 1879 – Joseph Severn, English painter (b. 1793)
• 1916 – Sir Roger Casement, Irish rebel (hanged)
• 1924 – Joseph Conrad, Polish-born writer (b. 1857)
• 1929 – Emil Berliner, telephone and recording pioneer (b. 1851)
• 1929 – Thorstein Veblen, economist (b. 1857)
• 1954 – Colette, novelist, playwright (b. 1873)
• 1964 – Flannery O'Connor, novelist (b. 1925)
• 1966 – Lenny Bruce, comedian (b. 1925)
• 1973 – Richard Marshall, general (b. 1895)
• 1977 – Alfred Lunt, actor (b. 1892)
• 1977 – Archbishop Makarios of Cyprus (b. 1913)
• 1983 – Carolyn Jones, actress (b. 1929)
• 1995 – Ida Lupino, actress, director (b. 1914)
• 1995 – Edward Whittemore, writer (b. 1933)
• 1998 – Alfred Schnittke, Russian composer (b. 1934)
• 2001 – Christopher Hewett, British actor
• 2003 – Roger Voudouris, American singer and songwriter
• 2004 – Henri Cartier-Bresson, French photographer (b. 1908)

Holidays and observances

• Equatorial Guinea – Armed Forces Day
• Niger – Independence Day

External links

• BBC: On This Day

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