August 3 HOLIDAYS: EVENTS: BIRTHDAYS:

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Today is Thursday, August 3, 2023.

 

👉 HOLIDAYS:

🌏 International Watermelon Day.

 

🔹 NATIONAL HOLIDAYS:

🇳🇪 Niger - Tree planting day.
🇻🇪 Venezuela - Flag Day.
🇳🇪 Niger - Independence Day.
🇰🇼 Equatorial Guinea - Independence Day.
🇧🇲 Bermuda - Independence Day.
🇺🇸 USA - Watermelon Day.
🇸🇻 Salvador - San Salvador Day.

 

👉 EVENTS:

- 1200 - Qutbuddin Muhammad sat on the throne of Khorezm.
- 1492 - Columbus's first voyage to the New World began.
- 1492 - expulsion of Jews from Spain.
- 1546 - French publisher Etienne Dolet was hanged for publishing works of humanists.
- 1596 - German astronomer David Fabricius discovered the first variable star - Kit Mirasi.
- 1778 - "La Scala" opera theater was opened in Milan.
- 1795 - Paris Conservatory was founded.
- 1783 - Asama volcano in Japan killed 35 thousand people.
- 1799 - Turkey for the first time provided free passage to Russian warships through the Bosphorus.
- 1914 - World War I: Germany declares war on France.
- 1921 - Russian poet Nikolai Gumilyov was arrested on charges of opposing the Soviet regime.
— 1926 — London's first traffic lights were installed in Piccadilly Square.
- 1946 - USA Basketball Association was founded.
- 1950 - The UN Security Council voted against China's entry into the UN.
- 1956 - A military coup was carried out in Syria.
- 1960 - Niger gained independence from France.
- 1979 - A military coup occurred in Equatorial Guinea.
-1980 - the closing ceremony of the Summer Olympic Games was held in Moscow, the capital of the USSR.
— 1988 — Mathias Rust, the German pilot who landed his plane on Red Square, was released early from Soviet prison.
— 2004 — MESSENGER Interplanetary Automatic Station (SAS) launched to study Mercury.
— 2011 — After the overthrow of Muammar Gaddafi in Libya, the Interim Constitutional Declaration was adopted until a permanent constitution was adopted.

 

👉 BIRTHDAYS:

— 1189 — Yuan Chusai (1243) — statesman and military figure of the Yuan (Mongol) dynasty in China, scientist and writer.
- 1770 - Friedrich Wilhelm III (1840) - King of Prussia (since 1797).
— 1893 — Alexander Gauk (1963) — Composer, chief conductor of the State Symphony Orchestra of the USSR.
— 1903 — Habib Bourguiba (2000) — the first President of Tunisia (1957-1987).
— 1908 — Birgit Kullberg (1999) — Swedish dancer and choreographer.
- 1920 - Phyllis Dorothy James (2014) - English writer, author of detective stories.
— 1928 — Kunduz Mirkarimova (2019) — dancer, ballet master and pedagogue, People's Artist of Uzbekistan (1966).
- 1959 - Koiti Tanaka - Japanese scientist, winner of the Nobel Prize (2002).
— 1977 — Angela Beasley is a British entrepreneur, founder and vice-president of the Wikia project.
- 1979 - Evangeline Lilly - Canadian actress.
— 1983 — Ulugbek Kadyrov — actor.
- 1986 - Darya Domrachyova - Belarusian biathlete, 4-time Olympic champion, two-time world champion, Hero of Belarus.
- 1992 - Karlie Kloss is an American supermodel.
— 1994 — Coranten Tolisso — French football player, world champion (2018).