What are the important events that happened on August 3? Here are historical events, facts, and some myths about this day.
August 3: Facts & Myths About This Day
August 3 is the 215th day of the year 2025 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 150 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Sunday.
Under the Julian calendar, this day is July 21, 2025 – a Sunday. Both day of the week are the same but did you notice the difference with the Gregorian calendar?
When this day started, 1,754,179,200 seconds has elapsed since midnight of January 1, 1970 – the Unix epoch.
Strange as it may, if we name this day after a polygon then it will be called ‘dihectadecapentagon’ day.
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Leo is the zodiac 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 198 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.
The ancient Maya civilization believes that the end of the world will happen on December 21, 2012. There are now 4,608 days since this fabled cataclysmic event.
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August 3 Historical Events
- 1031 –Olaf II of Norway is canonised as Saint Olaf by Grimketel, the English Bishop of Selsey.
- 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.
- 1811 –First ascent of Jungfrau, third highest summit in the Bernese Alps by brothers Johann Rudolf and Hieronymus Meyer.
- 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.
- 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.
- 1929 –Jiddu Krishnamurti, tapped to be the messianic “World Teacher”, shocks the Theosophy movement by dissolving the Order of the Star, the organisation built to support him.
- 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.
Who were born on August 3?
- 1902 –Regina Jonas, German rabbi (d. 1944)
- 1918 –Larry Haines, American actor (d. 2008)
- 1928 –Cécile Aubry, French actress (d. 2010)
- 1940 –Lance Alworth, American football player
- 1945 –Eamon Dunphy, Irish footballer
- 1952 –Osvaldo Ardiles, Argentine footballer
- 1960 –Gopal Sharma, Indian cricketer
- 1963 –Isaiah Washington, American actor
- 1967 –Mathieu Kassovitz, French film director and screenwriter
- 1971 –Deidra Muriel Roper, American DJ and rapper, known as DJ Spinderella
Who died on August 3?
- 1460 –King James II of Scotland (b. 1430)
- 1546 –Antonio da Sangallo the Younger, Italian architect (b. 1484)
- 1839 –Dorothea von Schlegel, German novelist (b. 1763)
- 1879 –Joseph Severn, English painter (b. 1793)
- 1917 –Ferdinand Georg Frobenius, German mathematician (b. 1849)
- 1954 –Colette, French writer (b. 1873)
- 1964 –Flannery O'Connor, American writer (b. 1925)
- 1983 –Carolyn Jones, American actress (b. 1930)
- 2008 –Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Russian writer (b. 1918)
- 2008 –Erik Darling, American folk singer-songwriter (b. 1933)
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