August 3rd, 1602

Born on August 3rd, 1602

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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 1602

58

Cardinal Mazarin

French cardinal and statesman

*July 14th, 1602, Pescina †March 9th, 1661, Vincennes

78

Athanasius Kircher

German Jesuit scholar

*May 2nd, 1602, Geisa †November 27th, 1680, Rome

72

Philippe de Champaigne

French painter (1602–1674)

*May 26th, 1602, City of Brussels †August 12th, 1674, Paris

83

Ana de los Angeles Monteagudo

Peruvian nun

*July 26th, 1602, Arequipa †January 10th, 1686, Arequipa

73

Francesco Cavalli

Italian composer (1602–1676)

*February 14th, 1602, Crema †January 14th, 1676, Venice

79

William Lilly

English astrologer (1602–1681)

*May 11th, 1602, Diseworth †June 9th, 1681, Hersham

58

Michelangelo Cerquozzi

Painter from Italy (1602–1660)

*January 1st, 1602, Rome †January 1st, 1660, Rome

66

Algernon Percy, 10th Earl of Northumberland

English noble (1602-1668)

*September 29th, 1602, Ipswich †October 13th, 1668, Dublin

74

Anna Maria Antigó

Catalan nun (1602–1676)

*January 19th, 1602, Perpignan †September 28th, 1676, Perpignan

73

John Lightfoot

English churchman, rabbinical scholar (1602–1675)

*March 29th, 1602, Stoke-on-Trent †December 6th, 1675, Ely

41

William Chillingworth

British churchman (1602-1644)

*October 12th, 1602, Oxford †January 30th, 1644, Chichester

63

Mary of Jesus of Ágreda

Spanish mystic nun

*April 2nd, 1602, Ágreda †May 24th, 1665, Ágreda

49

Countess Amalie Elisabeth of Hanau-Münzenberg

Regent of Hesse-Kassel (1602-1651)

*January 29th, 1602, Hanau †August 8th, 1651, Kassel

59

Andreas Kunad

German theologian

*August 5th, 1602, Döbeln †March 15th, 1662, Lutherstadt Wittenberg

61

Jakob Weller

German theologian

*December 5th, 1602, Markneukirchen †July 6th, 1664, Dresden

64

Mildmay Fane, 2nd Earl of Westmorland

English politician and poet

*January 24th, 1602, Mereworth †February 12th, 1666

57

Eleonora Ramirez de Montalvo

*July 6th, 1602, Genoa †August 10th, 1659, Florence

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.

Date as a Roman numeral / digit

Leap year

No: With 365 days 1602 is a normal year and no leap year.

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