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.
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| Blurb | Reason |
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| Independence Day in Niger (1960); | unreferenced section |
| Flag Day in Venezuela | unreferenced section |
| 435 – Nestorius, the originator of Nestorianism, was exiled by Byzantine Emperor Theodosius II to a monastery in Egypt. | refimprove section |
| 1645 – France and the Holy Roman Empire fought in the Second Battle of Nördlingen. | needs more footnotes |
| 1795 – The United States signed the Treaty of Greenville with the Western Confederacy coalition of Native Americans, ending the Northwest Indian War. | unreferenced section |
| 1811 – A climbing team led by the Meyer brothers from Aarau became the first to reach the summit of the Jungfrau, one of the main summits of the Bernese Alps. | refimprove section |
| 1852 – The inaugural Harvard–Yale Regatta—the first intercollegiate sports event in the United States—was held on Lake Winnipesaukee, New Hampshire. | unreferenced section |
| 1900 – The Firestone Tire and Rubber Company, a pioneer in the mass production of automobile tires, was founded by Harvey Firestone in Akron, Ohio, U.S. | refimprove |
| 1916 – Irish nationalist Sir Roger Casement was hanged at London's Pentonville Prison for treason for his role in the Easter Rising, a rebellion to win Irish independence from Britain. | needs more footnotes, refimprove sections |
| 1949 – The Basketball Association of America agreed to merge with the National Basketball League to form the National Basketball Association. | refimprove section |
| 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 |
| 1997 – The Sky Tower, the tallest free-standing structure in the Southern Hemisphere at 328 m (1,076 ft), opened in Auckland. | unreferenced section |
| Nadia Ali (b. 1980) | date referenced only to discogs, which is unreliable source |
Eligible
- 1903 – Macedonian rebels in Kruševo proclaimed a republic, which existed for only ten days before Ottoman forces destroyed the town.
- 1913 – A strike in Wheatland, California, orchestrated by agricultural workers degenerated into a riot, becoming one of the first major farm labor confrontations in California.
- 1929 – Jiddu Krishnamurti, believed likely to be the messianic "World Teacher" by Charles Webster Leadbeater, shocked the Theosophy movement by dissolving the Order of the Star, the organisation established to support him.
- 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.
- 1959 – Portuguese state police opened fire on striking dock workers in Bissau, Portuguese Guinea, killing at least 25 people in a step that led to the Guinea-Bissau War of Independence four years later.
- 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.
- Born/died this day: Empress Dowager Cao (d. 925) | Christopher Anstey (d. 1805) | Hamilton Fish (b. 1808) | Thomas Francis Meagher (b. 1823) | George Inness (d. 1894) | Dolores del Río (b. 1904) | Tony Bennett (b. 1926) | Martha Stewart (b. 1941) | Alexander Mair (d. 1969)
August 3: Raksha Bandhan (Hinduism, 2020)
- 1857 – Indian Rebellion: An eight-day siege by a force of more than 10,000 against a fortified outbuilding occupied by 68 defenders ended when a relief party dispersed the besiegers.
- 1936 – African-American athlete Jesse Owens (pictured) won the first of his four gold medals at the Berlin Olympics, dashing Nazi leaders' hopes of Aryan domination at the games.
- 1940 – World War II: Italian forces began a conquest of British Somaliland, capturing the region in 16 days.
- 2005 – Former mayor of Tehran Mahmoud Ahmadinejad took office as the sixth president of Iran.
- Stanley Baldwin (b. 1867)
- Frumka Płotnicka (d. 1943)
- Mary Musa (d. 2015)