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August 3 is the 215th day of the year (216th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 150 days remaining until the end of the year.

Events

• 8 – Roman Empire general Tiberius defeats Dalmatians on the river Bathinus.
• 435 – Deposed Patriarch of Constantinople Nestorius, considered the originator of Nestorianism, is exiled by Byzantine Emperor Theodosius II to a monastery in Egypt.
• 881 – Battle of Saucourt-en-Vimeu: Louis III of France defeats the Vikings, an event celebrated in the poem Ludwigslied
• 1492 – Christopher Columbus sets sail from Palos de la Frontera, Spain.
• 1492 – The Jews of Spain are expelled by the Catholic Monarchs.
• 1527 – First known letter is sent from North America by John Rut while at St. John's, Newfoundland.
• 1645 – Thirty Years' War: Second Battle of Nördlingen (Battle of Allerheim).
• 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.
• 1811 – First ascent of Jungfrau, third highest summit in the Bernese Alps.
• 1852 – First Boat Race between Yale and Harvard, the first American intercollegiate athletic event. Harvard won.
• 1860 – The Second Maori War begins in New Zealand.
• 1900 – The Firestone Tire & Rubber Company is founded.
• 1913 – Wheatland Hop Riot.
• 1914 – World War I: Germany declares war against France.
• 1916 – World War I: Battle of Romani – Allied forces, under the command of Archibald Murray, defeat an attacking Ottoman army, under the command of Friedrich Freiherr Kress von Kressenstein, securing the Suez Canal, and beginning the Ottoman retreat from the Sinai.
• 1923 – Calvin Coolidge is sworn in as the 30th President of the United States in the early morning following the death of Warren G. Harding the previous day.
• 1934 – Adolf Hitler becomes the supreme leader of Germany by joining the offices of President and Chancellor into Führer.
• 1936 – Jesse Owens wins the 100 meter dash, defeating Ralph Metcalfe, at the Berlin Olympics.
• 1940 – World War II: Forces of Italy begin the invasion of British Somaliland.
• 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.
• 1958 – The nuclear submarine USS Nautilus travels beneath the Arctic ice cap.
• 1960 – Niger gains independence from France.
• 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.
• 1977 – The United States Senate hearing on MKULTRA.
• 1981 – Senegalese opposition parties, under the leadership of Mamadou Dia, launch the Antiimperialist Action Front-Suxxali Reew Mi.
• 1997 – Oued El-Had and Mezouara massacre in Algeria; 40-76 villagers killed.
• 2001 – The Real IRA detonates a car bomb in Ealing, London, UK injuring seven people.
• 2004 – The pedestal of the Statue of Liberty reopens after being closed since the September 11 attacks.
• 2005 – President Maaouya Ould Sid'Ahmed Taya of Mauritania is overthrown in a military coup while attending the funeral of King Fahd in Saudi Arabia.

Births

• 1509 – Étienne Dolet, French scholar (d. 1546)
• 1692 – John Henley, English clergyman (d. 1759)
• 1770 – King Friedrich Wilhelm III of Prussia (d. 1840)
• 1801 – Joseph Paxton, English gardener (d. 1865)
• 1808 – Hamilton Fish, American politician (d. 1893)
• 1811 – Elisha Graves Otis, American inventor (d. 1861)
• 1817 – Archduke Albert, Austrian general (d. 1895)
• 1832 – Ivan Zajc, Croatian composer (d. 1914)
• 1850 – Reginald Heber Roe, 2nd Headmaster of Brisbane Grammar School (d. 1926)
• 1855 – Joe Hunter, Former Australian cricketer (d. 1891)
• 1856 – Alfred Deakin, 2nd Prime Minister of Australia (d. 1919)
• 1860 – W. K. Dickson, Scottish inventor (d. 1935)
• 1867 – Stanley Baldwin, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (d. 1947)
• 1872 – King Haakon VII of Norway (d. 1957)
• 1887 – Rupert Brooke, English poet (d. 1915)
• 1894 – Harry Heilmann, American baseball player (d. 1951)
• 1895 – Neva Morris, American supercentenarian
• 1895 – Marguerite Nichols, American actress (d. 1941)
• 1899 – Louis Chiron, Monegasque race car driver (d. 1979)
• 1900 – Ernie Pyle, American war correspondent (d. 1945)
• 1900 – John T. Scopes, American defendant (d. 1970)
• 1901 – Stefan Cardinal Wyszyński, Polish Catholic prelate (d. 1981)
• 1902 – Regina Jonas, German rabbi (d. 1944)
• 1903 – Habib Bourguiba, Tunisian politician (d. 2000)
• 1904 – Clifford D. Simak, American author (d. 1988)
• 1905 – Dolores del Río, Mexican actress (d. 1983)
• 1905 – Franz Cardinal König, Austrian Catholic archbishop (d. 2004)
• 1911 – Alex McCrindle, Scottish actor (d. 1990)
• 1913 – Mel Tolkin, Ukrainian television comedy writer (d. 2007)
• 1915 – Frank Arthur Calder, Canadian politician and Nisga'a statesman (d. 2006)
• 1915 – Pete Newell, American basketball coach (d. 2008)
• 1916 – Shakeel Badayuni, Indian poet and lyricist (d. 1970)
• 1916 – José Manuel Moreno, Argentine footballer (d. 1978)
• 1917 – Les Elgart, American jazz trumpeter and bandleader (d. 1995)
• 1918 – Sidney Gottlieb, American CIA official (d. 1999)
• 1918 – Larry Haines, American actor (d. 2008)
• 1920 – P. D. James, English novelist
• 1920 – Charlie Shavers, American trumpet player (d. 1971)
• 1920 – Elmar Tampõld, Estonian/Canadian architect
• 1921 – Marilyn Maxwell, American actress (d. 1972)
• 1921 – Hayden Carruth, American poet and literary critic (d. 2008)
• 1923 – Shenouda III of Alexandria, Pope of Coptic Christianity
• 1923 – Jean Hagen, American film and tv actress
• 1924 – Leon Uris, American novelist (d. 2003)
• 1925 – Marv Levy, American football coach
• 1926 – Tony Bennett, American singer
• 1926 – Anthony Sampson, British journalist (d. 2004)
• 1927 – Gordon Scott, American actor (d. 2007)
• 1928 – Cécile Aubry, French actress
• 1928 – Henning Moritzen, Danish actor
• 1933 – Pat Crawford, Australian cricketer
• 1934 – Haystacks Calhoun, American professional wrestler (d. 1989)
• 1934 – Jonas Savimbi, Angolan political leader (d. 2002)
• 1934 – Michael Chapman, British classical bassoonist (d. 2005)
• 1935 – Georgi Shonin, Soviet cosmonaut (d. 1997)
• 1935 – Vic Vogel, Canadian pianist, composer and bandleader
• 1937 – Steven Berkoff, English actor
• 1937 – Roland Burris, American politician, junior senator of Illinois
• 1937 – Duncan Sharpe, Former Pakistani cricketer
• 1938 – Terry Wogan, Irish television presenter
• 1939 – Jimmy Nicol, English musician
• 1939 – Apoorva Sengupta, Indian cricketer
• 1940 – Lance Alworth, American football player
• 1940 – Martin Sheen, American actor
• 1941 – Beverly Lee, American singer (Shirelles)
• 1941 – Martha Stewart, American media personality
• 1944 – Nino Bravo, Spanish singer (d. 1973)
• 1945 – Eamon Dunphy, Irish footballer
• 1946 – Jack Straw, British politician
• 1946 – Syreeta Wright, American singer and songwriter (d. 2004)
• 1948 – Jean-Pierre Raffarin, Prime Minister of France
• 1950 – John Landis, American film director
• 1950 – Jo Marie Payton, American Actress
• 1951 – Marcel Dionne, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1951 – Jay North, American actor
• 1952 – Osvaldo Ardiles, Argentine footballer
• 1952 – Loles León, Spanish actress
• 1954 – Gary Peters, English footballer
• 1955 – Corey Burton, American voice actor
• 1956 – Abhisit Vejjajiva, Thai politician
• 1956 – Balwinder Sandhu, Indian cricketer
• 1958 – Ana Kokkinos, Greek/Australian film director
• 1958 – Lambert Wilson, French actor
• 1959 – John C. McGinley, American actor
• 1959 – Martin Atkins, English musician
• 1959 – Mike Gminski, American basketball player
• 1959 – Koichi Tanaka, Japanese scientist, Nobel laureate
• 1960 – Tim Mayotte, American tennis player
• 1960 – Gopal Sharma, Indian cricketer
• 1961 – Lee Rocker, American musician (Stray Cats)
• 1961 – Molly Hagan, American actress
• 1963 – James Hetfield, American musician (Metallica)
• 1963 – Ed Roland, American musician (Collective Soul)
• 1963 – Isaiah Washington, American actor
• 1963 – Lisa Ann Walter, American actress
• 1964 – Lucky Dube, South African reggae musician (d. 2007)
• 1964 – Nate McMillan, American basketball player and coach
• 1966 – Brent Butt, Canadian Actor
• 1966 – Eric Esch, American boxer
• 1967 – Mathieu Kassovitz, French film director and screenwriter
• 1968 – Rod Beck, American baseball player (d. 2007)
• 1969 – Doug Overton, American basketball player
• 1970 – Masahiro Sakurai, Japanese video game developer
• 1970 – Stephen Carpenter, American musician (Deftones)
• 1970 – Manmohan Waris, Punjabi Singer
• 1971 – Forbes Johnston, Scottish footballer (d. 2007)
• 1972 – Sandis Ozoliņš, Latvian ice hockey player
• 1973 – Jay Cutler, American bodybuilder
• 1973 – Nikos Dabizas, Greek footballer
• 1973 – Michael Ealy, American actor
• 1975 – Argiro Strataki, Greek heptathlete
• 1976 – Troy Glaus, American baseball player
• 1977 – Tom Brady, American football player
• 1977 – Tómas Lemarquis, Icelandic actor
• 1977 – Óscar Pereiro, Spanish cyclist
• 1978 – Joi Chua, Singaporean female singer
• 1978 – Mariusz Jop, Polish footballer
• 1979 – Evangeline Lilly, Canadian model and actress
• 1980 – Dominic Moore, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1980 – Brandan Schieppati, American singer (Bleeding Through)
• 1982 – Jesse Lumsden, Canadian bobsledder and football player
• 1983 – Mamie Gummer, American actress
• 1983 – Mark Reynolds, American baseball player
• 1984 – Jon Foster, American actor
• 1984 – Yasin Avci, Danish footballer
• 1984 – Sunil Chetri, Indian footballer
• 1984 – Ryan Lochte, American swimmer
• 1984 – Chris Maurer, American musician
• 1985 – Sonny Bill Williams, New Zealand rugby league footballer
• 1986 – Charlotte Casiraghi, Monegasque royalty
• 1987 – Kim Hyung Joon, Korean singer (SS501)
• 1993 – Yurina Kumai, Japanese singer
• 1994 – Kyle Ward, Australian Rugby League Player

Deaths

• 1460 – King James II of Scotland (b. 1430)
• 1527 – Scaramuccia Trivulzio, Italian cardinal
• 1546 – Antonio da Sangallo the Younger, Italian architect (b. 1484)
• 1546 – Étienne Dolet, French scholar and printer (b. 1509)
• 1604 – Bernardino de Mendoza, Spanish military commander
• 1621 – Guillaume du Vair, French writer (b. 1556)
• 1667 – Francesco Borromini, Swiss sculptor and architect (b. 1599)
• 1712 – Joshua Barnes, English scholar (b. 1654)
• 1720 – Anthonie Heinsius, Dutch statesman (b. 1641)
• 1721 – Grinling Gibbons, Dutch-born woodcarver (b. 1648)
• 1761 – Johann Matthias Gesner, German classical scholar (b. 1691)
• 1773 – Stanisław Konarski, Polish writer (b. 1700)
• 1780 – Étienne Bonnot de Condillac, French philosopher (b. 1715)
• 1792 – Richard Arkwright, English industrialist and inventor (b. 1732)
• 1797 – Jeffrey Amherst, British military commander (b. 1717)
• 1805 – Christopher Anstey, English writer (b. 1724)
• 1835 – Wenzel Müller, Austrian composer and conductor (b. 1767)
• 1839 – Dorothea von Schlegel, German novelist (b. 1763)
• 1857 – Eugène Sue, French novelist (b. 1804)
• 1867 – Philipp August Böckh, German scholar and antiquarian (b. 1785)
• 1877 – William Butler Ogden, American politician, 1st Mayor of Chicago (b. 1805)
• 1879 – Joseph Severn, English painter (b. 1793)
• 1916 – Sir Roger Casement, Irish rebel (hanged) (b. 1864)
• 1917 – Ferdinand Georg Frobenius, German mathematician (b. 1849)
• 1924 – Joseph Conrad, Polish-born writer (b. 1857)
• 1925 – William Bruce, Former Australian cricketer (b. 1864)
• 1929 – Emile Berliner, German-born American telephone and recording pioneer (b. 1851)
• 1929 – Thorstein Veblen, American economist (b. 1857)
• 1942 – Richard Willstätter, German chemist, Nobel Prize Laureate (b. 1872)
• 1954 – Colette, French writer (b. 1873)
• 1958 – Peter Collins, English race car driver (b. 1931)
• 1964 – Flannery O'Connor, American writer (b. 1925)
• 1966 – Lenny Bruce, American comedian (b. 1925)
• 1972 – Giannis Papaioannou, Greek musician and composer (b. 1913)
• 1973 – Richard Marshall, U.S. Army general (b. 1895)
• 1977 – Alfred Lunt, American actor (b. 1892)
• 1977 – Makarios III, Archbishop and first President of Cyprus (b. 1913)
• 1979 – Bertil Ohlin, Swedish economist, Nobel Prize Laureate (b. 1899)
• 1983 – Carolyn Jones, American actress (b. 1930)
• 1990 – Betty Amann, German-born American actress (b. 1905)
• 1993 – Chinmayananda, Indian born Swami who spread the teachings of Vedanta (b. 1916)
• 1995 – Ida Lupino, English actress and director (b. 1914)
• 1995 – Edward Whittemore, American writer (b. 1933)
• 1997 – Pietro Rizzuto, Canadian politician (b. 1934)
• 1998 – Alfred Schnittke, Russian composer (b. 1934)
• 1999 – Byron Farwell, American military historian (b. 1921)
• 2001 – Christopher Hewett, British actor (b. 1922)
• 2002 – Carmen Silvera, British actress (b. 1922)
• 2003 – Roger Voudouris, American singer and songwriter (b. 1954)
• 2004 – Henri Cartier-Bresson, French photographer (b. 1908)
• 2005 – Françoise d'Eaubonne, French feminist (b. 1920)
• 2006 – Arthur Lee, American psychedelic rock musician (b. 1945)
• 2006 – Elisabeth Schwarzkopf, German-born British opera singer (b. 1915)
• 2007 – John Gardner, British author (b. 1926)
• 2008 – Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Russian writer (b. 1918)
• 2008 – Skip Caray, American TV and radio broadcaster (b. 1939)
• 2008 – Erik Darling, American folk singer/songwriter (b. 1933)

Holidays and observances

• Niger – Independence Day.
• Venezuela – Flag Day (since 2006)

Hinduism

• South India – Adiperukku

Roman Catholicism

• Saint Nicodemus
• Translation of Saint Olaf of Norway, king, martyr [Norway]
• Invention of Saint Stephen
• Feast of Lydia of Thyatira sometimes called Lydia of Philippi

External links

• BBC: On This Day
• The New York Times: On This Day
• On This Day in Canada

From Wikiquote

Quotes of the day from previous years:

2004

Keep me away from the wisdom which does not cry, the philosophy which does not laugh, and the greatness which does not bow before children. ~ Khalil Gibran

• selected by Kalki

2005

When I talk of the purpose of life, I am thinking not only of human life, but of all life on Earth and of the life which must exist upon other planets throughout the universe. It is only of life on Earth, however, that one can speak with any certainty. It seems to me that all life on Earth, the sum total of life upon the Earth, has purpose. ~ Clifford D. Simak (born 3 August 1904)

• proposed by Kalki

2006

Somewhere, he thought, on the long backtrack of history, the human race had accepted an insanity for a principle and had persisted in it until today that insanity-turned-principle stood ready to wipe out, if not the race itself, at least all of those things, both material and immaterial, that had been fashioned as symbols of humanity through many hard-won centuries. ~ Clifford D. Simak (born 3 August 1904)

• proposed by Kalki

2007

There is a plan, it seems to me, that reaches out of the electron to the rim of the universe and what this plan may be or how it came about is beyond my feeble intellect. But if we are looking for something on which to pin our faith — and, indeed, our hope — the plan might well be it. I think we have thought too small and have been too afraid. ~ Clifford D. Simak (born 3 August 1904)

• proposed by Kalki

2008

I have tried at times to place humans in perspective against the vastness of universal time and space. I have been concerned with where we, as a race, may be going and what may be our purpose in the universal scheme — if we have a purpose. In general, I believe we do, and perhaps an important one. ~ Clifford D. Simak

• proposed by Kalki

2009

I did not want to move. For I had the feeling that this was a place, once seen, that could not be seen again. If I left and then came back, it would not be the same; no matter how many times I might return to this particular spot the place and feeling would never be the same, something would be lost or something would be added, and there never would exist again, through all eternity, all the integrated factors that made it what it was in this magic moment. ~ Clifford D. Simak

• proposed by Kalki

2010

Suggestions

I should not proceed by land to the East, as is customary, but by a Westerly route, in which direction we have hitherto no certain evidence that any one has gone. ~ 3 August 1493 1492 diary entry by Christopher Columbus, starting his journey to what will become known as America.

• 3 ~ MosheZadka (Talk) 04:58, 20 July 2005 (UTC)
• 2 121a0012 02:38, August 2, 2005 (UTC) (corrected year per WP)
• 3 AllanHainey 07:50, 2 August 2005 (UTC)
• 3 InvisibleSun 21:39, 2 August 2007 (UTC)
• 2 Zarbon 14:59, 24 April 2008 (UTC)

Time is still the great mystery to us. It is no more than a concept; we don't know if it even exists... ~ Clifford D. Simak

• 3 because the eternity of time stretches forever and the acceptance of the unknown is what makes it even more of a mystery. Zarbon 15:39, 30 April 2008 (UTC)
• 2 Kalki 12:12, 31 July 2008 (UTC)
• 3 InvisibleSun 23:21, 2 August 2009 (UTC)

There was a world of mutants, men and women who were more than normal men and women, persons who had certain human talents and certain human understandings which the normal men and women of the world had never known, or having known, could not utilize in their entirety, unable to use intelligently all the mighty powers which lay dormant in their brains. ~ Clifford D. Simak

• 3 because this has been scientifically proven true, that human beings use only approximately three percent of their brain. And the "smartest" ones use merely four percent. Zarbon 15:39, 30 April 2008 (UTC)
• 3 Kalki 12:12, 31 July 2008 (UTC)
• 2 InvisibleSun 23:21, 2 August 2009 (UTC)

What do you mean by faith? Is faith enough for Man? Should he be satisfied with faith alone? Is there no way of finding out the truth? Is the attitude of faith, of believing in something for which there can be no more than philosophic proof...? ~ Clifford D. Simak

• 3 because the devotion to faith for the sake of faith alone doesn't hold enough evidence for mankind to suffer its restrictions. Philosophic proof is beautiful, magnificent, and utterly brilliant, but it has proven not unsatisfactory for the minds that have captured the Earth today. Zarbon 15:39, 30 April 2008 (UTC)
• 2 Kalki 12:12, 31 July 2008 (UTC) (but would complete the last sentence as Simak wrote it: "Is the attitude of faith, of believing in something for which there can be no more than philosophic proof the true mark of a Christian?" — in that form I might someday rank it a 3, or even a 4, but not this year.)
• 3 for the completed quote. - InvisibleSun 23:21, 2 August 2009 (UTC)

We came into a homeless frontier, a place where we were not welcome, where nothing that lived was welcome, where thought and logic were abhorrent and we were frightened, but we went into this place because the universe lay before us, and if we were to know ourselves, we must know the universe... ~ Clifford D. Simak

• 3 Kalki 12:12, 31 July 2008 (UTC)
• 2 because all is intertwined. Zarbon 04:14, 2 August 2008 (UTC)
• 3 InvisibleSun 23:21, 2 August 2009 (UTC)

Perhaps there was no limit, there might, quite likely, be no such condition as the ultimate; there might be no time when any creature or any group of creatures could stop at any certain point and say, this is as far as we can go, there is no use of trying to go farther. For each new development produced, as side effects, so many other possibilities, so many other roads to travel, that with each step one took down any given road there were more paths to follow. There'd never be an end, he thought — no end to anything. ~ Clifford D. Simak

• 3 Kalki 12:12, 31 July 2008 (UTC) with a lean toward 4
• 2 Zarbon 04:14, 2 August 2008 (UTC)
• 3 InvisibleSun 23:21, 2 August 2009 (UTC)

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From Familypedia

August 3 is the 215th day of the year (216th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 150 days remaining until the end of the year.

Events

• 8 - Roman Empire general Tiberius defeats Dalmatians on the river Bathinus.
• 435 - Deposed Patriarch of Constantinople Nestorius, considered the originator of Nestorianism, was exiled by Byzantine Emperor Theodosius II to a monastery in Egypt.
• 881 - Battle of Saucourt-en-Vimeu, where Louis III of France defeated the Vikings, an event celebrated in the poem Ludwigslied
• 1492 - Christopher Columbus sets sail from Palos de la Frontera, Spain.
• 1492 - The Jews of Spain are expelled by the Catholic Monarchs.
• 1527 - First known letter was sent from North America by John Rut while at St. John's, Newfoundland.
• 1635 - The third of the Tokugawa shoguns, Iemitsu, establishes the system of alternate attendance (sankin kotai) by which the feudal daimyō are required to spend one year at Edo Castle in Tokyo and one year back home at their feudal manor, while their families remained in Tokyo as virtual political hostages. (Traditional Japanese Date: June 21, 1635).
• 1645 - Thirty Years' War: Second Battle of Nördlingen (Battle of Allerheim) - A French army under the command of Louis de Bourbon, Duc d'Enghien and Marshal Henri, Vicomte de Turenne attacks and defeats an Imperial army, led by Field Marshal Franz at Alerheim, near Nördlingen, Germany.
• 1678 - Robert LaSalle builds the Le Griffon, the first known ship built in America.
• 1783 - Mount Asama erupts in Japan, killing 35,000 people.
• 1852 - First Boat Race between Yale and Harvard, the first American intercollegiate athletic event. Harvard won.
• 1860 - The Second Maori War begins in New Zealand.
• 1900 - Firestone Tire & Rubber Company founded.
• 1913 - Wheatland Hop Riot
• 1914 - World War I: Germany declares war against France.
• 1916 - World War I: Battle of Romani - Allied forces, under the command of Archibald Murray, defeat an attacking Ottoman army, under the command of Friedrich Freiherr Kress von Kressenstein, securing the Suez Canal, and beginning the Ottoman retreat from the Sinai.
• 1923 - The deceased Warren G. Harding was succeeded by Vice President Calvin Coolidge as the 30th President of the United States.
• 1934 - Adolf Hitler becomes the supreme leader of Germany by joining the offices of President and Chancellor into Führer.
• 1936 - Jesse Owens wins the 100 meter dash by defeating Ralph Metcalfe at Berlin Olympics.
• 1940 - World War II: Italy invades British Somaliland.
• 1948 - Whittaker Chambers accuses Alger Hiss of being a communist and a spy for the Soviet Union.
• 1949 - National Basketball Association is founded in the United States.
• 1958 - The nuclear submarine USS Nautilus travels beneath the Arctic ice cap.
• 1958 - The Billboard Hot 100 is founded
• 1960 - Niger gains independence from France.
• 1972 - U.S. Senate ratifies the Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty.
• 1975 - A privately chartered Boeing 707 impacts the mountainside near Agadir, Morocco killing 188.
• 1977 - United States Senate Hearing on MKULTRA.
• 1981 - In the United States, Air traffic controllers affiliated with the Professional Air Traffic Controllers Organization walk off the job. President Ronald Reagan ultimately responds by firing those who ignore his order to return to work.
• 1981 - Senegalese opposition parties, under the leadership of Mamadou Dia, launches the Antiimperialist Action Front-Suxxali Reew Mi.
• 1996 - General William F. Garrison accepted responsibility for the outcome of the 1993 raid in Somalia, and he retired from military service.
• 1997 - Oued El-Had and Mezouara massacre in Algeria; 40-76 villagers killed.
• 2001 - The Real IRA detonate a car bomb in Ealing, London, U.K injuring seven people. (See 3 August 2001 Ealing bombing).
• 2004 - The pedestal of the Statue of Liberty reopens after being closed since the September 11.
• 2005 - President Maaouya Ould Sid'Ahmed Taya of Mauritania is overthrown in a military coup while attending the funeral of King Fahd in Saudi Arabia.

Births

• 1509 - Étienne Dolet, French scholar (d. 1546)
• 1692 - John Henley, English clergyman (d. 1759)
• 1770 - King Friedrich Wilhelm III of Prussia (d. 1840)
• 1801 - Joseph Paxton, English gardener (d. 1865)
• 1808 - Hamilton Fish, American politician (d. 1893)
• 1811 - Elisha Graves Otis, American inventor (d. 1861)
• 1817 - Archduke Albert, Austrian general (d. 1895)
• 1832 - Ivan Zajc, Croatian composer (d. 1914)
• 1850 - Reginald Heber Roe, 2nd Headmaster of Brisbane Grammar School (d. 1926)
• 1856 - Alfred Deakin, 2nd Prime Minister of Australia (d. 1919)
• 1860 - W.K. Dickson, Scottish inventor (d. 1935)
• 1867 - Stanley Baldwin, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (d. 1947)
• 1872 - King Haakon VII of Norway (d. 1957)
• 1887 - Rupert Brooke, English poet (d. 1915)
• 1894 - Harry Heilmann, American baseball player (d. 1951)
• 1895 - Marguerite Nichols, American actress (d. 1941)
• 1899 - Louis Chiron, Monegasque race car driver (d. 1979)
• 1900 - Ernie Pyle, American war correspondent (d. 1945)
• 1900 - John T. Scopes, American defendant (d. 1970)
• 1901 - Stefan Cardinal Wyszyński, Polish Catholic prelate (d. 1981)
• 1902 - Regina Jonas, first woman rabbi
• 1903 - Habib Bourguiba, Tunisian politician (d. 2000)
• 1904 - Clifford D. Simak, American author (d. 1988)
• 1905 - Dolores del Rio, Mexican-born actress (d. 1983)
• 1905 - Franz Cardinal König, Austrian Catholic archbishop (d. 2004)
• 1911 - Alex McCrindle, Scottish actor (d. 1990)
• 1915 - Frank Arthur Calder, Canadian politician (d. 2006)
• 1915 - Pete Newell, American basketball coach
• 1916 - José Manuel Moreno, Argentine footballer (d. 1978)
• 1918 - Sidney Gottlieb, American CIA official (d. 1999)
• 1920 - P. D. James, English novelist
• 1920 - Charlie Shavers, American trumpet player (d. 1971)
• 1921 - Marilyn Maxwell, American actress (d. 1972)
• 1921 - Hayden Carruth, American poet and literary critic
• 1922 - Robert Sumner, American evangelist and author
• 1923 - Shenouda III of Alexandria, Pope of the Coptic Christianity
• 1924 - Leon Uris, American novelist (d. 2003)
• 1925 - Marv Levy, American football coach
• 1926 - Tony Bennett, American singer
• 1926 - Anthony Sampson, British journalist (d. 2004)
• 1927 - Gordon Scott, American actor (d. 2007)
• 1928 - Cécile Aubry, French actress
• 1934 - Haystacks Calhoun, American professional wrestler (d. 1989)
• 1934 - Jonas Savimbi, Angolan political leader (d. 2002)
• 1935 - Georgi Shonin, Soviet cosmonaut (d. 1997)
• 1936 - Edward Petherbridge, English actor
• 1937 - Steven Berkoff, English actor
• 1938 - Terry Wogan, Irish television presenter
• 1939 - Jimmy Nicol, English musician
• 1939 - Egil Krogh, American lawyer and Watergate figure
• 1940 - Lance Alworth, American football player
• 1940 - Martin Sheen, American actor
• 1941 - Beverly Lee, American singer (Shirelles)
• 1941 - Martha Stewart, American media personality
• 1945 - Eamon Dunphy, former Irish footballer
• 1946 - Jack Straw, British politician
• 1946 - Syreeta Wright, American singer and songwriter (d. 2004)
• 1948 - Jean-Pierre Raffarin, Prime Minister of France
• 1948 - Pierre Lacroix, National Hockey League executive
• 1949 - Reed Waller, Acclaimed Cat Porn Comic Book artist/Writer on New Richland Star
• 1950 - John Landis, American film director
• 1951 - Marcel Dionne, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1951 - Jay North, American actor
• 1952 - Osvaldo Ardiles, Argentine footballer
• 1952 - Frank Schaeffer, American author
• 1952 - Loles León, Spanish actress
• 1954 - Gary Peters Football league manager and former professional footballer
• 1956 - Abhisit Vejjajiva, Thai politician and Democrat Party leader
• 1957 - Mani Shankar, Indian film maker
• 1958 - Ana Kokkinos, Greek-Australian film director
• 1958 - Lambert Wilson, French actor
• 1959 - John C. McGinley, American actor
• 1959 - Martin Atkins, English drummer
• 1959 - Koichi Tanaka, Japanese scientist, Nobel laureate
• 1961 - Lee Rocker, American musician (Stray Cats)
• 1961 - Molly Hagan, American actress
• 1963 - James Hetfield, American musician (Metallica)
• 1963 - Ed Roland, American musician (Collective Soul)
• 1963 - Isaiah Washington, American actor
• 1964 - Lucky Dube, South African reggae musician (d. 2007)
• 1966 - Eric Esch, American boxer
• 1967 - Mathieu Kassovitz, French film director and screenwriter
• 1968 - Rod Beck, American baseball player (d. 2007)
• 1970 - Masahiro Sakurai, Japanese video game developer
• 1971 - Forbes Johnston, Scottish footballer (d. 2007)
• 1971 - DJ Spinderella, American rapper (Salt-N-Pepa)
• 1972 - Sandis Ozoliņš, Latvian ice hockey player
• 1973 - Stephen Carpenter, American musician (Deftones)
• 1973 - Jay Cutler, American bodybuilder
• 1973 - Nikos Dabizas, Greek footballer
• 1973 - Michael Ealy, American actor
• 1975 - Aryiro Strataki, Greek heptathlete
• 1976 - Troy Glaus, American baseball player
• 1977 - Tom Brady, American football player
• 1977 - Tómas Lemarquis, Icelandic actor
• 1977 - Óscar Pereiro, Spanish cyclist
• 1978 - Mariusz Jop, Polish footballer
• 1979 - Kris Jenkins, American football player
• 1979 - Evangeline Lilly, Canadian model/actress
• 1980 - Dominic Moore, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1980 - Brandan Schieppati, American singer (Bleeding Through)
• 1984 - Jon Foster, American actor
• 1984 - Amanda Kimmel, American beauty queen
• 1985 - Sonny Bill Williams, New Zealand rugby league footballer
• 1986 - Charlotte Casiraghi, daughter of Princess Caroline of Monaco
• 1993 - Yurina Kumai, Japanese singer

Deaths

• 1460 - King James II of Scotland (b. 1430)
• 1527 - Scaramuccia Trivulzio, Italian cardinal
• 1546 - Antonio da Sangallo the Younger, Italian architect (b. 1484)
• 1546 - Étienne Dolet, French scholar and printer (b. 1509)
• 1604 - Bernardino de Mendoza, Spanish military commander
• 1621 - Guillaume du Vair, French writer (b. 1556)
• 1667 - Francesco Borromini, Swiss sculptor and architect (b. 1599)
• 1712 - Joshua Barnes, English scholar (b. 1654)
• 1720 - Anthonie Heinsius, Dutch statesman (b. 1641)
• 1721 - Grinling Gibbons, Dutch-born woodcarver (b. 1648)
• 1761 - Johann Matthias Gesner, German classical scholar (b. 1691)
• 1773 - Stanisław Konarski, Polish writer (b. 1700)
• 1780 - Étienne Bonnot de Condillac, French philosopher (b. 1715)
• 1792 - Richard Arkwright, English industrialist and inventor (b. 1732)
• 1797 - Jeffrey Amherst, British military commander (b. 1717)
• 1805 - Christopher Anstey, English writer (b. 1724)
• 1839 - Dorothea von Schlegel, German novelist (b. 1763)
• 1857 - Eugène Sue, French novelist (b. 1804)
• 1867 - Philipp August Böckh, German scholar and antiquarian (b. 1785)
• 1877 - William Butler Ogden, American politician, 1st Mayor of Chicago (b. 1805)
• 1879 - Joseph Severn, English painter (b. 1793)
• 1916 - Sir Roger Casement, Irish rebel (hanged) (b. 1864)
• 1917 - Ferdinand Georg Frobenius, German mathematician (b. 1849)
• 1924 - Joseph Conrad, Polish-born writer (b. 1857)
• 1929 - Emil Berliner, German-born telephone and recording pioneer (b. 1851)
• 1929 - Thorstein Veblen, American economist (b. 1857)
• 1942 - Richard Willstätter, German chemist, Nobel Prize Laureate (b. 1872)
• 1954 - Colette, French writer (b. 1873)
• 1964 - Flannery O'Connor, American writer (b. 1925)
• 1966 - Lenny Bruce, American comedian (b. 1925)
• 1973 - Richard Marshall, U.S. Army general (b. 1895)
• 1977 - Alfred Lunt, American actor (b. 1892)
• 1977 - Makarios III, Archbishop and first President of Cyprus (b. 1913)
• 1979 - Bertil Ohlin, Swedish economist, Nobel Prize Laureate (b. 1899)
• 1983 - Carolyn Jones, American actress (b. 1930)
• 1990 - Betty Amann, German-American actress
• 1993 - Swami Chinmayananda, spread the teachings of Vedanta (b. 1916)
• 1995 - Ida Lupino, English actress and director (b. 1914)
• 1995 - Edward Whittemore, American writer (b. 1933)
• 1997 - Pietro Rizzuto, Canadian politician (b. 1934)
• 1998 - Alfred Schnittke, Russian composer (b. 1934)
• 2001 - Christopher Hewett, British actor (b. 1922)
• 2002 - Carmen Silvera, British actress (b. 1922)
• 2003 - Roger Voudouris, American singer and songwriter (b. 1954)
• 2004 - Henri Cartier-Bresson, French photographer (b. 1908)
• 2005 - Françoise d'Eaubonne, French feminist (b. 1920)
• 2006 - Arthur Lee, American psychedelic rock musician (b. 1945)
• 2006 - Elisabeth Schwarzkopf, singer (b. 1915)
• 2007 - John Gardner, British author (b. 1926)

Holidays and observances

• Equatorial Guinea - Armed Forces Day.
• Niger - Independence Day.
• Kentucky - Watermelon Day
• Venezuela - Flag Day (since 2006)

Roman Catholicism

• Saint Abidon
• Saint Gamaliel
• Saint Nicodemus
• Translation of Saint Olaf of Norway, king, martyr [Norway]
• Saint Walthen, abbot of Melrose
• Invention of Saint Stephen [common; Paris, in green]

External links

• BBC: On This Day
• The New York Times: On This Day

• On This Day in Canada