3rd August

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The August 3 is the 215th day of the Gregorian calendar (the 216th in leap years ). That leaves 150 days until the end of the year.

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events

Politics and world events

178 AD: Marcus Aurelius in the Marcomann War
1492: Columbus leaves Spain
1914: The Schlieffen Plan

business

science and technology

1787: The Mont Blanc
The route of the Rurik expedition (1815-1818)
1958: The USS Nautilus

Culture

Coat of arms of the Real Academia Española
La Scala in Milan (opened in 1778)
1830: The Old Museum

company

religion

Disasters

  • 1783: A severe eruption of the Asama volcano in Japan kills 1,000 people. The ash rain rising into the atmosphere results in a harsh winter and causes crop failures in northern Japan.
  • 1918: The German submarine UC 49 sinks the Australian hospital ship HMAT Warilda in the English Channel , killing 123 people.
  • 1975: A Boeing 707 crashes into a mountain near Agadir . None of the 188 people on board survived.

Minor accidents are listed in the sub-articles of Disaster .

Sports

1811: Mount Jungfrau

Entries of track and field world records can be found under the respective discipline under track and field .

Born

Before the 18th century

Juliane Charlotte Friederike Grimm
(* 1735)
Friedrich Wilhelm III. (* 1770)

18th century

19th century

Elisha Graves Otis (* 1811)
Auguste Schmidt
(* 1833)
George Francis FitzGerald (* 1851)
Haakon VII (* 1872)

1801-1850

1851-1875

1876-1900

20th century

1901-1925

Stefan Wyszyński (* 1901)
Regina Jonas
(* 1902)
Dolores del Río
(* 1905)
Ernesto Geisel (* 1908)

1926-1950

Martin Sheen (* 1940)
Martha Stewart
(* 1941)
Wilhelm Bender (* 1944)

1951-1975

Hans Wilhelm Schlegel (* 1951)
John C. McGinley (born 1959)
Kai Böcking (* 1964)

1976-2000

Kristina Schröder (* 1977)
Evangeline Lilly (* 1979)

Died

Before the 17th century

17th century

18th century

19th century

20th century

1901 to 1950

1951 to 2000

Paul Löbe († 1967)

21st century

Bubba Smith († 2011)

Holidays and memorial days

The list of days of remembrance and action contains further entries .


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