August 3

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

Table of contents

1 Events
2 Births
3 Deaths
4 Holidays and observances

Events

1492 - Christopher Columbus sets sail from Palos, Spain.
1492 - The Jews were expelled from Spain
1678 - Robert LaSalle builds 1st ship in America, Griffon.
1860 - Second Maori War begins.
1900 - Firestone Tire & Rubber Company founded.
1914 - Germany declares war against France.
1916 - Sir Roger Casement hanged for his part in the Easter Rising.
1916 - Battle of Romani
1923 - Calvin Coolidge is inaugurated as the 30th President of the United States.
1940 - Italy invades British Somaliland.
1946 - National Basketball Association founded.
1948 - Whittaker Chambers accuses Alger Hiss of being a communist and a spy for the Soviet Union.
1949 - National Basketball Association formed.
1958 - nuclear submarine USS Nautilus travels beneath the Arctic ice cap.
1960 - Niger gains independence from France.
1972 - U.S Senate ratifies Anti-ballistic missile treaty.
1975 - A privately chartered Boeing 707 impacts the mountainside near Agadir, [Morocco]] killing 188
1981 - Professional Air Traffic Controllers Organization walks off the job. All 13,000 members will eventually be fired by President Ronald Reagan.
2000 - George W. Bush accepted the Republican presidential nomination at the party's convention in Philadelphia.

1721 - Grinling Gibbons, master wood-worker
1797 - Jeffrey Amherst, British military commander
1879 - Joseph Severn, English painter
1924 - Joseph Conrad, writer
1929 - Emil Berliner, telephone and recording pioneer
1929 - Thorstein Veblen, economist
1954 - Colette, novelist, playwright
1964 - Flannery O'Connor, novelist
1966 - Lenny Bruce, comedian
1977 - Alfred Lunt, actor
1977 - Archbishop Makarios of Cyprus
1983 - Carolyn Jones, actress
1995 - Ida Lupino, actress, director
2002 - Holly Wells and Jessica Chapman, child- murder victims (Missing from this date; exact date of death not yet established, but believed to be August 3).

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