About August 3
August 3, 2024 is the 216th day of the year 2024 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 150 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Saturday.
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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 179 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.
What Happened On August 3
- 8 –Roman Empire general Tiberius defeats Dalmatae on the river Bathinus.
- 1031 –Olaf II of Norway is canonised as Saint Olaf by Grimketel, the English Bishop of Selsey.
- 1492 –Christopher Columbus sets sail from Palos de la Frontera, Spain.
- 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.
- 1783 –Mount Asama erupts in Japan, killing 35,000 people.
- 1860 –The Second Maori War begins in New Zealand.
- 1900 –The Firestone Tire & Rubber Company is founded.
- 1903 –Macedonian rebels in Kruševo proclaim the Kruševo Republic, which exists only for 10 days before Ottoman Turks lay waste to the town.
- 1934 –Adolf Hitler becomes the supreme leader of Germany by joining the offices of President and Chancellor into Führer.
- 1940 –World War II: Italian forces begin the invasion of British Somaliland.
- 1949 –The National Basketball Association is founded in the United States.
- 1958 –The nuclear submarine USS Nautilus travels beneath the Arctic ice cap.
- 1959 –Portugal’s state police force PIDE fires upon striking workers in Bissau, Portuguese Guinea, killing over 50 people.
- 1972 –The United States Senate ratifies the Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty.
- 1977 –The United States Senate begins its hearing on Project MKULTRA.
- 1981 –Senegalese opposition parties, under the leadership of Mamadou Dia, launch the Antiimperialist Action Front-Suxxali Reew Mi.
- 2004 –The pedestal of the Statue of Liberty reopens after being closed since the September 11 attacks.
- 2010 –Widespread rioting erupts in Karachi, Pakistan, after the assassination of a local politician, leaving at least 85 dead and at least 17 billion Pakistani rupees (US$200 million) in damage.
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