Tukuk-OS📅 August 3
15 events · 12 births · 12 deaths
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What happened on August 3? Below are the notable events chosen by Wikipedia’s editors for this date, followed by celebrated births, deaths and the observances recognised around the world.
Events
- 2019 — A mass shooting occurred at a Walmart in El Paso, Texas, killing 23 people and injuring 22 others.
- 2009 — The last vessels involved in Taurus 09, a Royal Navy training deployment covering 20,400 miles (32,800 km), returned to HMNB Devonport, England.
- 2005 — Mauritanian president Maaouya Ould Sid'Ahmed Taya was overthrown in a military coup while he attended the funeral of King Fahd of Saudi Arabia.
Maaouya Ould Sid'Ahmed Taya2005 Mauritanian coup d'étatFahd of Saudi Arabia
- 1997 — The Sky Tower, then the tallest free-standing structure in the Southern Hemisphere at 328 m (1,076 ft), opened in Auckland, New Zealand.
Sky Tower (Auckland)History of the world's tallest structuresSouthern Hemisphere
- 1975 — A privately chartered Boeing 707 (aircraft involved pictured) struck a mountain peak and crashed near Agadir, Morocco, killing 188.
Boeing 7071975 Agadir Royal Air Maroc Boeing 707 crashAgadir
- 1971 — Fighting Dinosaurs, a fossil specimen featuring a Velociraptor and a Protoceratops in combat, was unearthed in the Djadochta Formation of Mongolia.
- 1940 — World War II: Italian forces began a conquest of British Somaliland, capturing the region in 16 days.
World War IIItalian invasion of British SomalilandBritish Somaliland
- 1936 — African-American athlete Jesse Owens won the first of his four gold medals at the Berlin Olympics, dashing Nazi leaders' hopes of Aryan domination at the games.
- 1929 — Jiddu Krishnamurti (pictured), believed by some Theosophists to be a likely candidate for the messianic "World Teacher", dissolved the Order of the Star, the organisation established to support him.
- 1913 — An agricultural workers' strike in Wheatland degenerated into a riot, becoming one of the first major farm-labor confrontations in California.
- 1903 — Macedonian rebels in Kruševo established a republic, which existed for ten days before Ottoman forces destroyed the town.
Internal Macedonian Revolutionary OrganizationKruševoKruševo Republic
- 1857 — Indian Rebellion: An eight-day siege of a fortified outbuilding in Arrah occupied by 68 defenders against more than 10,000 men ended when a relief party dispersed the besiegers.
- 1460 — James II of Scotland (pictured) was killed by an exploding cannon at Roxburgh Castle.
- 1347 — Hundred Years' War: The French town of Calais capitulated to English forces after an eleven-month siege, ending the Crécy campaign.
- 1057 — Pope Stephen IX was crowned as pope.
Births
- 1999 — Zach Wilson, American football player
- 1999 — Brahim Díaz, Spanish-Moroccan footballer
- 1999 — Yoo Yeon-jung, South Korean singer
- 1997 — Luis Robert Jr., Cuban baseball player
- 1996 — Alec Bohm, American baseball player
- 1996 — Bokondji Imama, Canadian ice hockey player
- 1996 — Derwin James, American football player
- 1995 — Zac Gallen, American baseball player
- 1995 — Victoria Kan, Russian tennis player
- 1994 — Kwon Alexander, American football player
- 1994 — Esther Earl, American author, vlogger, and online personality (died 2010)
- 1994 — Younghoe Koo, South Korean-born American football player
Deaths
- 2025 — Loni Anderson, American actress (born 1945)
- 2024 — Yamini Krishnamurthy, Indian dancer (born 1940)
- 2023 — Mark Margolis, American actor (born 1939)
- 2023 — Bram Moolenaar, Dutch software engineer (born 1961)
- 2022 — Jackie Walorski, American politician (born 1963)
- 2020 — John Hume, Northern Irish politician (born 1937)
- 2015 — Robert Conquest, English-American historian, poet, and academic (born 1917)
- 2015 — Mel Farr, American football player and businessman (born 1944)
- 2015 — Coleen Gray, American actress (born 1922)
- 2015 — Margot Loyola, Chilean singer-songwriter and guitarist (born 1918)
- 2015 — Johanna Quandt, German businesswoman (born 1926)
- 2015 — Jef Murray, American artist and author (born 1960)
Observances & holidays
- Anniversary of the Killing of Pidjiguiti (Guinea-Bissau)
- Armed Forces Day (Equatorial Guinea)
- Christian feast day: Blessed Augustin Kažotić
- Christian feast day:
George Freeman Bragg, W. E. B. Du Bois (Episcopal Church)
George Freeman BraggW. E. B. Du BoisThe Calendar of the Church Year
- Christian feast day: Lydia of Thyatira
- Christian feast day: Myrrhbearers (Lutheran Church)
- Christian feast day: Nicodemus
- Christian feast day: Olaf II of Norway (Translation of the relic)
- Christian feast day: Stephen (Discovery of the relic)
- Christian feast day: Waltheof of Melrose
- Christian feast day: August 3 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
- Flag Day (Venezuela)
- Independence Day, celebrates the independence of Niger from France in 1960. Arbor Day (Niger)
- National Guard Day (Venezuela)
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