August 3rd, 1640

Born on August 3rd, 1640

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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 1640

48

Aphra Behn

British playwright, poet and spy (1640–1689)

*July 10th, 1640, Canterbury †April 16th, 1689, London

64

Leopold I, Holy Roman Emperor

Holy Roman Emperor (1658-1705), King of Hungary and Croatia and King of Bohemia

*June 9th, 1640, Vienna †May 5th, 1705, Vienna

66

Madame de Montespan

French noble, mistress of Louis XIV; (1640-1707)

*October 5th, 1640, Lussac-les-Châteaux †May 27th, 1707, Bourbon-l'Archambault

74

Pu Songling

Chinese writer (1640–1715)

*June 5th, 1640, Zichuan District †February 25th, 1715, Zichuan District

62

Gérard Audran

French engraver (1640-1703)

*August 2nd, 1640, Lyon †July 26th, 1703, Paris

55

Peter Müller

(1640-1696)

*July 19th, 1640, Nordhausen †May 31st, 1696, Gera

70

Gerard de Lairesse

Painter and engraver from the Northern Netherlands

*September 11th, 1640, Liège †July 28th, 1711, Amsterdam

68

Barbara Palmer, 1st Duchess of Cleveland

English royal mistress from the Villiers family (1640-1709)

*November 27th, 1640, St Margaret's Church, Westminster †October 9th, 1709, Chiswick

78

Philippe de La Hire

French mathematician and astronomer (1640-1718)

*March 18th, 1640, Paris †April 21st, 1718, Paris

75

Jacques d'Agar

French painter (1640-1715)

*March 9th, 1640, Paris †November 16th, 1715, Copenhagen

85

Pierre II Mignard

French architect (1640-1725)

*February 20th, 1640, Avignon †April 10th, 1725, Avignon

83

Mariana Alcoforado

Portuguese nun and writer

*April 22nd, 1640, Beja †July 28th, 1723, Beja

91

Charles-René d'Hozier

French historian (1640-1732)

*February 24th, 1640, Paris †February 13th, 1732, Paris

82

Claude Fleury

French historian

*December 6th, 1640, Paris †July 14th, 1723, Paris

55

Robert Plot

English scientist

*December 13th, 1640, Sutton Baron And Sutton Baron Hall †April 30th, 1696, Kent

56

Georg Mohr

Danish mathematician

*April 1st, 1640, Copenhagen †January 26th, 1697, Sławnikowice

64

Benjamin Keach

British writer and theologian

*February 29th, 1640, Buckinghamshire †June 18th, 1704

84

Jonathan Singletary Dunham

American settler (1640-1724)

*January 17th, 1640, Newbury †September 6th, 1724

72

Philipp Müller

*August 24th, 1640, Sangerhausen †March 15th, 1713, Jena

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

Yes: 1640 is a leap year, therefore has a 29th of February with an additional leap day and a total of 366 days (instead of the usual 365 days in a normal year).

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