Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/August 3
This is a list of selected August 3 anniversaries that appear in the "On this day" section of the Main Page. To suggest a new item, in most cases, you can be bold and edit this page. Please read the selected anniversaries guidelines before making your edit. However, if your addition might be controversial or on a day that is or will soon be on the Main Page, please post your suggestion on the talk page instead.
Please note that the events listed on the Main Page are chosen based more on relative article quality and to maintain a mix of topics, not based solely on how important or significant their subjects are. Only four to five events are posted at a time and thus not everything that is "most important and significant" can be listed. In addition, an event is generally not posted this year if it is also the subject of the scheduled featured article or picture of the day.
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Jesse Owens in the 1936 Summer Olympics
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Maaouya Ould Sid'Ahmed Taya
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Ineligible
| Blurb | Reason |
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| 435 – Nestorius, the originator of Nestorianism, was exiled by Byzantine Emperor Theodosius II to a monastery in Egypt. | needs more footnotes |
| 1645 – France and the Holy Roman Empire fought in the Second Battle of Nördlingen. | Stubby, needs more footnotes |
| 1948 – Before the House Un-American Activities Committee of the United States House of Representatives, former spy turned government informer Whittaker Chambers accused U.S. State Department official Alger Hiss of being a communist and a Soviet spy. | Hiss: neutrality issues |
| 1960 – Niger officially gained independence from France as part of the decolonization of the French Community. | refimprove section |
| 1961 – Canada's New Democratic Party was founded with the merger of the Co-operative Commonwealth Federation and organised labour. | refimprove section |
| 2005 – President of Mauritania Maaouya Ould Sid'Ahmed Taya was overthrown in a military coup while he was attending the funeral of King Fahd of Saudi Arabia. | unreferenced section |
Eligible
- 1795 – The United States signed the Treaty of Greenville with the Western Confederacy coalition of Native Americans, ending the Northwest Indian War.
- 1852 – The first Harvard–Yale Regatta—the first intercollegiate sports event in the United States—was held on Lake Winnipesaukee, New Hampshire.
- 1900 – The Firestone Tire and Rubber Company, a pioneer in the mass production of automobile tires, was founded by Harvey Firestone in Akron, Ohio, US.
- 1929 – Jiddu Krishnamurti, believed to likely be the messianic "World Teacher", shocked the Theosophy movement by dissolving the Order of the Star, the organisation established to support him.
- 1936 – African American athlete Jesse Owens won the first of his four gold medals at the Berlin Summer Olympics, dashing Nazi leaders' hopes of Aryan domination.
- 1940 – World War II: Italy began their invasion of British Somaliland.
August 3: Independence Day in Niger (1960); Flag Day in Venezuela
- 1913 – A strike by agricultural workers in Wheatland, California, US, degenerated into a riot, one of the first major farm labor confrontations in California.
- 1916 – Irish nationalist Sir Roger Casement (pictured) was hanged at London's Pentonville Prison for treason for his role in the Easter Rising, a rebellion to win Irish independence from Britain.
- 1949 – The Basketball Association of America agreed to merge with the National Basketball League to form the National Basketball Association.
- 2005 – Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, the former Mayor of Tehran, began his term as the sixth President of Iran.
- 2007 – Former Deputy Director of the Chilean secret police Raúl Iturriaga was captured after having been on the run following a conviction for kidnapping.