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.
- 1783 –Mount Asama erupts in Japan, killing 35,000 people.
- 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.
- 1907 –Judge Kenesaw Mountain Landis fines Standard Oil of Indiana a record $29.4 million for illegal rebating to freight carriers; the conviction and fine are later reversed on appeal.
- 1913 –A major labour dispute, known as the Wheatland Hop Riot, starts in Wheatland, California.
- 1914 –World War I: Germany declares war against France.
- 1921 –Major League Baseball Commissioner Kenesaw Mountain Landis confirms the ban of the eight Chicago Black Sox, the day after they were acquitted by a Chicago court.
- 1936 –A fire wipes out Kursha-2 in the Meshchera Lowlands, Ryazan Oblast, Russia, killing 1,200 and leaving only 20 survivors.
- 1936 –Jesse Owens wins the 100 meter dash, defeating Ralph Metcalfe, at the Berlin Olympics.
- 1946 –Santa Claus Land, the world’s first themed amusement park, opens in Santa Claus, Indiana, US.
- 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.
- 2004 –The pedestal of the Statue of Liberty reopens after being closed since the September 11 attacks.
- 2007 –Former Deputy Director of the Chilean secret police Raúl Iturriaga is captured after having been on the run following a conviction for kidnapping.
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