
August 3 is the 215th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (216th in leap years), with 150 days remaining. ==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 Battle of Nördlingen (1645), fought between the forces of France and the Holy Roman Empire. *1678 - Robert LaSalle builds the Griffon (ship), the first known ship built in America. *1860 - Second Maori War begins in New Zealand. *1900 - Firestone Tire & Rubber Company founded. *1914 - World War I: 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 secret agent for the Soviet Union. *1958 - Nuclear energy submarine USS Nautilus travels beneath the Arctic Ocean ice cap. *1960 - Niger gains independence from France. *1972 - United States 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 controller Organization walks off the job. All 13,000 members will eventually be fired by President Ronald Reagan. *1983 - New York Yankees 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 (baseball) Billy Martin quipped, "It's the first time he's hit the List of baseball jargon." * 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) *1604 - John Eliot (missionary), English puritan missionary (d. 1690) *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 (1817-1895), 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, Scotland 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 Church archbishop of Vienna, important thinker at Second Vatican Council and ultimately last surviving Cardinal (Catholicism) of John XXIII (d. 2004). *1918 - Sidney Gottlieb, Director of the Central Intelligence Agency Technical Services Staff. (d. 1999) *1918 - Les Elgart, musician, bandleader *1920 - P.D. James, novelist *1923 - Shenouda III of Alexandria, Pope of the Coptic Christianity *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 (politician), 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, United Kingdom Internet entrepreneur *1986 - Grand Ducal Family of Luxembourg, Prince of Luxembourg and of Nassau ==Deaths== *1181 - Pope Alexander III *1546 - Étienne Dolet, scholar and printer (b. 1509) *1604 - Bernardino de Mendoza, Spanish military commander (b. circa 1540) *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) *1942 - Richard Willstätter, German chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1872) *1954 - Colette, French writer (b. 1873) *1964 - Flannery O'Connor, American writer (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 == * [http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/august/3 BBC: On This Day] ---- August 2 - August 4 - July 3 - September 3 -- historical anniversaries
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August 3 is the 215th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (216th in leap years), with 150 days remaining. ==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 Battle of Nördlingen (1645), fought between the forces of France and the Holy Roman Empire. *1678 - Robert LaSalle builds the Griffon (ship), the first known ship built in America. *1860 - Second Maori War begins in New Zealand. *1900 - Firestone Tire & Rubber Company founded. *1914 - World War I: 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 secret agent for the Soviet Union. *1958 - Nuclear energy submarine USS Nautilus travels beneath the Arctic Ocean ice cap. *1960 - Niger gains independence from France. *1972 - United States 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 controller Organization walks off the job. All 13,000 members will eventually be fired by President Ronald Reagan. *1983 - New York Yankees 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 (baseball) Billy Martin quipped, "It's the first time he's hit the List of baseball jargon." * 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) *1604 - John Eliot (missionary), English puritan missionary (d. 1690) *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 (1817-1895), 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, Scotland 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 Church archbishop of Vienna, important thinker at Second Vatican Council and ultimately last surviving Cardinal (Catholicism) of John XXIII (d. 2004). *1918 - Sidney Gottlieb, Director of the Central Intelligence Agency Technical Services Staff. (d. 1999) *1918 - Les Elgart, musician, bandleader *1920 - P.D. James, novelist *1923 - Shenouda III of Alexandria, Pope of the Coptic Christianity *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 (politician), 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, United Kingdom Internet entrepreneur *1986 - Grand Ducal Family of Luxembourg, Prince of Luxembourg and of Nassau ==Deaths== *1181 - Pope Alexander III *1546 - Étienne Dolet, scholar and printer (b. 1509) *1604 - Bernardino de Mendoza, Spanish military commander (b. circa 1540) *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) *1942 - Richard Willstätter, German chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1872) *1954 - Colette, French writer (b. 1873) *1964 - Flannery O'Connor, American writer (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 == * [http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/august/3 BBC: On This Day] ---- August 2 - August 4 - July 3 - September 3 -- historical anniversaries
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