Browse events, births, deaths and holidays on August 3 throughout history.
In August 2023, major floods occurred in large part of Slovenia and neighbouring areas of Austria and Croatia due to heavy rain. Amongst others, the level of rivers Sava, Mur and …
Worst floods hit major parts of Slovenia.
Lyubov Eduardovna Sobol is a Russian opposition politician, lawyer and a member of the Russian Opposition Coordination Council (2012–2013). She produces the YouTube channel "Naval…
Six hundred protesters, including opposition leader Lyubov Sobol, are arrested in an election protest in Moscow, Russia.
On August 3, 2019, a mass shooting occurred at a Walmart store in El Paso, Texas, United States. The gunman, 21-year-old Patrick Crusius, shot 45 people, killing 23 and injuring 2…
Twenty-three people are killed and 22 injured in a mass shooting at a Walmart in El Paso, Texas.
Two burka-clad men kill 29 people and injure more than 80 in a suicide attack on a Shia mosque in eastern Afghanistan.
The 2014 Ludian earthquake struck Ludian County, Yunnan, China, with a moment magnitude of 6.2 on 3 August. The earthquake killed at least 615 people, injuring at least 2,400 othe…
A 6.1 magnitude earthquake kills at least 617 people and injures more than 2,400 in Yunnan, China.
The Yazidi genocide also known as the 74th firman by Yazidis, was perpetrated by the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria between 2014 and 2017. It was characterized by massacres, geno…
The genocide of Yazidis by ISIL begins.
The 2010 Karachi riots started on August 3, 2010, after the assassination of Parliament member Raza Haider, a member of the Muttahida Qaumi Movement political party, on the night …
Widespread rioting erupts in Karachi, Pakistan, after the assassination of a local politician, leaving at least 85…
The Dirección de Inteligencia Nacional was the secret police of Chile during the dictatorship of Augusto Pinochet. The DINA has been referred to as "Pinochet's Gestapo".
Former deputy director of the Chilean secret police Raúl Iturriaga is captured after having been on the run following…
This is a list of heads of state of Mauritania since the country gained independence from France in 1960 to the present day. The head of state is also the commander-in-chief of th…
President of Mauritania Maaouya Ould Sid'Ahmed Taya is overthrown in a military coup while attending the funeral of…
The Statue of Liberty is a colossal neoclassical sculpture of a robed and crowned woman on Liberty Island, part of New York City, in New York Harbor. The copper-clad statue, a gif…
The pedestal of the Statue of Liberty reopens after being closed since the September 11 attacks.
The Oued El-Had and Mezouara massacre took place on August 2, 1997. This massacre occurred between two villages near Arib in the wilaya of Tipaza and Ain Defla, Algeria. Around 10…
Oued El-Had and Mezouara massacre in Algeria: A total of 116 villagers killed, 40 in Oued El-Had and 76 in Mezouara.
This is the history of the world's tallest structures.
The tallest free-standing structure in the Southern Hemisphere, Sky Tower in downtown Auckland, New Zealand, opens…
Senegal, officially the Republic of Senegal, is the westernmost country of mainland West Africa, situated along the Atlantic Ocean coast. It borders Mauritania to the north, Mali …
Senegalese opposition parties, under the leadership of Mamadou Dia, launch the Antiimperialist Action Front – Suxxali…
Tandy Corporation was an American family-owned retailer based in Fort Worth, Texas that made leather goods, operated the RadioShack and Tandy electronics stores, and later built p…
Tandy Corporation announces the TRS-80, one of the world's first mass-produced personal computers.
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 pr…
A privately chartered Boeing 707 strikes a mountain peak and crashes near Agadir, Morocco, killing 188.
The United States Senate is a chamber of the bicameral United States Congress; it is the upper house, and the U.S. House of Representatives is the lower house. Together, the Senat…
The United States Senate ratifies the Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty.
Niger, officially the Republic of the Niger, is a landlocked country in West Africa. It is a unitary state bordered by Libya to the northeast, Chad to the east, Nigeria to the sou…
Niger gains independence from France.
The International and State Defense Police was a Portuguese security agency that existed during the Estado Novo regime of António de Oliveira Salazar. Formally, the main roles of …
Portugal's state police force PIDE fires upon striking workers in Bissau, Portuguese Guinea, killing over 50 people.
USS Nautilus (SSN-571) was the world's first nuclear-powered boat, nuclear-powered submarine, and the first submarine to complete a submerged transit of the North Pole on 3 August…
The world's first nuclear submarine, the USS Nautilus, becomes the first vessel to complete a submerged transit of the…
The Basketball Association of America (BAA) was a professional basketball league in North America, founded in 1946 by team owners from the National Hockey League (NHL) and America…
The Basketball Association of America and the National Basketball League finalize the merger that would create the…