Summary of the Day ✨ 3 August (03/08)
Multiple tragedies struck worldwide as devastating floods ravaged Slovenia while a 6.1 magnitude earthquake killed over 600 in China, and separate attacks in Afghanistan and the United States claimed dozens of lives amid political unrest in Russia where hundreds were arrested during election protests.
Historical Events 📜
- 2023: Worst floods hit major parts of Slovenia.
- 2019: Six hundred protesters, including opposition leader Lyubov Sobol, are arrested in an election protest in Moscow, Russia.
- 2019: Twenty-three people are killed and 22 injured in a mass shooting at a Walmart in El Paso, Texas.
- 2018: Two burka-clad men kill 29 people and injure more than 80 in a suicide attack on a Shia mosque in eastern Afghanistan.
- 2014: A 6.1 magnitude earthquake kills at least 617 people and injures more than 2,400 in Yunnan, China.
- 2014: The genocide of Yazidis by ISIL begins.
- 2010: Widespread rioting erupts in Karachi, Pakistan, after the assassination of a local politician, leaving at least 85 dead and at least 17 billion Pakistani rupees (US$200 million) in damage.
- 2007: Former deputy director of the Chilean secret police Raúl Iturriaga is captured after having been on the run following a conviction for kidnapping.
- 2005: President of Mauritania Maaouya Ould Sid’Ahmed Taya is overthrown in a military coup while attending the funeral of King Fahd in Saudi Arabia.
- 2004: The pedestal of the Statue of Liberty reopens after being closed since the September 11 attacks.
- 1997: Oued El-Had and Mezouara massacre in Algeria: A total of 116 villagers killed, 40 in Oued El-Had and 76 in Mezouara.
- 1997: The tallest free-standing structure in the Southern Hemisphere, Sky Tower in downtown Auckland, New Zealand, opens after two-and-a-half years of construction.
- 1981: Senegalese opposition parties, under the leadership of Mamadou Dia, launch the Antiimperialist Action Front – Suxxali Reew Mi.
- 1977: Tandy Corporation announces the TRS-80, one of the world’s first mass-produced personal computers.
- 1975: A privately chartered Boeing 707 strikes a mountain peak and crashes near Agadir, Morocco, killing 188.
Famous Births 👶
- 1999: Zach Wilson, American football player
- 1999: Brahim Díaz, Spanish-Moroccan footballer
- 1999: Yoo Yeon-jung, South Korean singer
- 1997: Luis Robert Jr., Cuban baseball player
- 1996: Alec Bohm, American baseball player
- 1996: Bokondji Imama, Canadian ice hockey player
- 1996: Derwin James, American football player
- 1995: Zac Gallen, American baseball player
- 1995: Victoria Kan, Russian tennis player
- 1994: Kwon Alexander, American football player
- 1994: Manaia Cherrington, New Zealand rugby league player
- 1994: Esther Earl, American author, vlogger, and online personality (died 2010)
- 1994: Todd Gurley, American football player
- 1994: Younghoe Koo, South Korean-born American football player
- 1993: Ola Abidogun, English sprinter
Notable Deaths 🕊️
- 2025: Loni Anderson, American actress (born 1945)
- 2024: Yamini Krishnamurthy, Indian dancer (born 1940)
- 2023: Mark Margolis, American actor (born 1939)
- 2023: Bram Moolenaar, Dutch software engineer (born 1961)
- 2022: Jackie Walorski, American politician (born 1963)
- 2020: John Hume, Northern Irish politician (born 1937)
- 2015: Robert Conquest, English-American historian, poet, and academic (born 1917)
- 2015: Mel Farr, American football player and businessman (born 1944)
- 2015: Coleen Gray, American actress (born 1922)
- 2015: Margot Loyola, Chilean singer-songwriter and guitarist (born 1918)
- 2015: Johanna Quandt, German businesswoman (born 1926)
- 2015: Jef Murray, American artist and author (born 1960)
- 2014: Miangul Aurangzeb, Pakistani captain and politician, 19th Governor of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (born 1928)
- 2014: Edward Clancy, Australian cardinal (born 1923)
- 2014: Dorothy Salisbury Davis, American author (born 1916)
Holidays & Observances 🎉
- Anniversary of the Killing of Pidjiguiti (Guinea-Bissau)
- Armed Forces Day (Equatorial Guinea)
- Christian feast day:
George Freeman Bragg, W. E. B. Du Bois (Episcopal Church) - Christian feast day:
Lydia of Thyatira - Christian feast day:
Myrrhbearers (Lutheran Church) - Christian feast day:
Nicodemus - Christian feast day:
Olaf II of Norway (Translation of the relic) - Christian feast day:
Stephen (Discovery of the relic) - Christian feast day:
Waltheof of Melrose - Christian feast day:
August 3 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics) - Flag Day (Venezuela)
- Independence Day, celebrates the independence of Niger from France in 1960.
Arbor Day (Niger) - National Guard Day (Venezuela)