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A privately chartered Boeing 707 (aircraft involved pictured) struck a mountain peak and crashed near Agadir, Morocco, killing 188.

On August 3, in the year 1975, A privately chartered Boeing 707 (aircraft involved pictured) struck a mountain peak and crashed near Agadir, Morocco, killing 188. This event is recorded as a Selected Events event in the history of August 3, a notable event in this corner of history.

The Boeing 707 is an early American long-range narrow-body airliner, the first jetliner developed and produced by Boeing Commercial Airplanes. Developed from the Boeing 367-80 prototype, the initial 707-120 first flew on December 20, 1957. Launch customer Pan Am began regular service with the 707 on October 26, 1958. With versions produced until 1979, the 707 is a swept wing quadjet with podded engines. Its larger fuselage cross-section allowed six-abreast economy seating, retained in the later 720, 727, and 737 models.

Key Facts

  • This event took place on August 3, 1975 (AD era).
  • It is categorised as a Selected Events event in recorded history.
  • Referenced in 3 Wikipedia articles.
  • Wikipedia source last updated on 24 July 2026.

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Notable Deaths 2022 Aug 3 Jackie Walorski, American politician (born 1963)
Notable Deaths 2020 Aug 3 John Hume, Northern Irish politician (born 1937)
Historical Events 2019 Aug 3 Six hundred protesters, including opposition leader Lyubov Sobol, are arrested in an election protest in Moscow, Russia.
Historical Events 2019 Aug 3 Twenty-three people are killed and 22 injured in a mass shooting at a Walmart in El Paso, Texas.
Historical Events 2018 Aug 3 Two burka-clad men kill 29 people and injure more than 80 in a suicide attack on a Shia mosque in eastern Afghanistan.
Notable Deaths 2015 Aug 3 Robert Conquest, English-American historian, poet, and academic (born 1917)
Notable Deaths 2015 Aug 3 Mel Farr, American football player and businessman (born 1944)
Notable Deaths 2015 Aug 3 Coleen Gray, American actress (born 1922)
Notable Deaths 2015 Aug 3 Margot Loyola, Chilean singer-songwriter and guitarist (born 1918)
Notable Deaths 2015 Aug 3 Johanna Quandt, German businesswoman (born 1926)
Notable Deaths 2015 Aug 3 Jef Murray, American artist and author (born 1960)
Historical Events 2014 Aug 3 A 6.1 magnitude earthquake kills at least 617 people and injures more than 2,400 in Yunnan, China.
Historical Events 2014 Aug 3 The genocide of Yazidis by ISIL begins.
Notable Deaths 2014 Aug 3 Miangul Aurangzeb, Pakistani captain and politician, 19th Governor of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (born 1928)
Notable Deaths 2014 Aug 3 Edward Clancy, Australian cardinal (born 1923)
Notable Deaths 2014 Aug 3 Dorothy Salisbury Davis, American author (born 1916)
Notable Deaths 2014 Aug 3 Kenny Drew, Jr., American pianist and composer (born 1958)
Notable Deaths 2014 Aug 3 Lydia Yu-Jose, Filipino political scientist and academic (born 1944)
Notable Deaths 2013 Aug 3 John Coombs, English-Monegasque race car driver and businessman (born 1922)
Notable Deaths 2013 Aug 3 Jack English Hightower, American lawyer and politician (born 1926)
Notable Deaths 2013 Aug 3 Jack Hynes, Scottish-American soccer player and manager (born 1920)
Notable Deaths 2012 Aug 3 Frank Evans, American baseball player, coach, and manager (born 1921)
Notable Deaths 2012 Aug 3 Martin Fleischmann, Czech-English chemist and academic (born 1927)
Notable Deaths 2012 Aug 3 Paul McCracken, American economist and academic (born 1915)
Notable Deaths 2012 Aug 3 John Pritchard, American basketball player (born 1927)
Notable Deaths 2012 Aug 3 George Shanard, American politician and agribusinessman (born 1926)
Notable Deaths 2011 Aug 3 William Sleator, American author (born 1945)
Notable Deaths 2011 Aug 3 Bubba Smith, American football player and actor (born 1945)
Historical Events 2010 Aug 3 Widespread rioting erupts in Karachi, Pakistan, after the assassination of a local politician, leaving at least 85…
Notable Deaths 2010 Aug 3 Bobby Hebb, American singer-songwriter (born 1938)
Notable Deaths 2009 Aug 3 Nikolaos Makarezos, Greek soldier and politician, Deputy Prime Minister of Greece (born 1919)
Selected Events 2009 Aug 3 The last vessels involved in Taurus 09, a Royal Navy training deployment covering 20,400 miles (32,800 km), returned…
Notable Deaths 2008 Aug 3 Skip Caray, American sportscaster (born 1939)
Notable Deaths 2008 Aug 3 Erik Darling, American singer-songwriter (born 1933)
Notable Deaths 2008 Aug 3 Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Russian novelist, dramatist and historian, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1918)
Historical Events 2007 Aug 3 Former deputy director of the Chilean secret police Raúl Iturriaga is captured after having been on the run following…
Notable Deaths 2007 Aug 3 John Gardner, English author (born 1926)
Notable Deaths 2007 Aug 3 Peter Thorup, Danish singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer (born 1948)
Notable Deaths 2006 Aug 3 Arthur Lee, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer (born 1945)
Notable Deaths 2006 Aug 3 Elisabeth Schwarzkopf, German-English soprano and actress (born 1915)
Historical Events 2005 Aug 3 President of Mauritania Maaouya Ould Sid'Ahmed Taya is overthrown in a military coup while attending the funeral of…
Notable Deaths 2005 Aug 3 Françoise d'Eaubonne, French author and poet (born 1920)
Selected Events 2005 Aug 3 Mauritanian president Maaouya Ould Sid'Ahmed Taya was overthrown in a military coup while he attended the funeral of…
Historical Events 2004 Aug 3 The pedestal of the Statue of Liberty reopens after being closed since the September 11 attacks.
Notable Deaths 2004 Aug 3 Henri Cartier-Bresson, French photographer and painter (born 1908)

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