August 3rd, 1543

Born on August 3rd, 1543

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What happened on August 3rd?

August 3rd, 1971

Fighting Dinosaurs, a fossil specimen featuring a Velociraptor and a Protoceratops in combat, was unearthed in the Djadochta Formation of Mongolia.

August 3rd, 2009

The last vessels involved in Taurus 09, a Royal Navy training deployment covering 20,400 miles (32,800 km), returned to HMNB Devonport, England.

August 3rd, 1460

James II of Scotland is killed by an exploding cannon at Roxburgh Castle.

August 3rd, 1975

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

August 3rd, 1347

Hundred Years' War: The French town of Calais capitulated to English forces after an eleven-month siege, ending the Crécy campaign.

August 3rd, 2005

Mauritanian president Maaouya Ould Sid'Ahmed Taya was overthrown in a military coup while he attended the funeral of King Fahd of Saudi Arabia.

August 3rd, 1997

The Sky Tower, then the tallest free-standing structure in the Southern Hemisphere at 328 m (1,076 ft), opened in Auckland, New Zealand.

August 3rd, 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.

August 3rd, 1940

World War II: Italian forces began a conquest of British Somaliland, capturing the region in 16 days.

August 3rd, 1936

African-American athlete Jesse Owens won the first of his four gold medals at the Berlin Olympics, dashing Nazi leaders' hopes of Aryan domination at the games.

August 3rd, 1929

Jiddu Krishnamurti (pictured), believed by some Theosophists to be a likely candidate for the messianic "World Teacher", dissolved the Order of the Star, the organisation established to support him.

August 3rd, 1913

An agricultural workers' strike in Wheatland degenerated into a riot, becoming one of the first major farm-labor confrontations in California.

August 3rd, 1903

Macedonian rebels in Kruševo proclaimed a republic, which existed for ten days before Ottoman forces destroyed the town.

August 3rd, 1857

Indian Rebellion: An eight-day siege of a fortified outbuilding in Arrah occupied by 68 defenders against more than 10,000 men ended when a relief party dispersed the besiegers.

August 3rd, 2023

Worst floods hit major parts of Slovenia.

Birthdays
... of famous people, actors, celebrities and stars on August 3rd

Same year
Born in 1543

73

Tokugawa Ieyasu

Founder and first shogun of the Tokugawa shogunate of Japan (1543–1616)

*January 31st, 1543, Okazaki Castle †June 1st, 1616, Sunpu Castle

60

Christine of Hesse

Duchess Consort of Schleswig-Holstein-Gottorp

*June 29th, 1543, Kassel †May 13th, 1604, Kiel

91

Lettice Knollys

English noblewoman

*November 8th, 1543, Rotherfield Greys †December 25th, 1634, Drayton Bassett

74

Giovanni Bembo

Doge of Venice (1543-1618)

*August 21st, 1543, Venice †March 16th, 1618, Venice

59

Sharaf Khan Bidlisi

Kurdish noble and writer (1543-c.1603)

*February 25th, 1543, Bitlis †January 1st, 1603, Bitlis

65

Charles III, Duke of Lorraine

Duke of Lorraine from 1545

*February 18th, 1543, Nancy †May 14th, 1608, Nancy

71

Claudio Acquaviva

Superior General of the Society of Jesus

*September 14th, 1543, Atri †January 31st, 1615, Rome

60

Hartmann Pistoris

German jurist (1543-1603)

*January 22nd, 1543, Leipzig †March 1st, 1603, Leipzig

47

Kanō Eitoku

Japanese artist (1543-1590)

*February 16th, 1543, Heian-kyō †October 12th, 1590, Heian-kyō

64

John Still

Bishop of Bath and Wells in Somerset, England

*November 30th, 1543, Grantham †January 1st, 1608, Wells

Birthdays of famous people

Public holidays on August 3rd

Fixed holidays (Christian feast day, Independence Day, celebrates the independence of Niger from France in 1960.) which are celebrated on August 3rd.

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Leap year

No: With 365 days 1543 is a normal year and no leap year.

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