August 3rd, 1691

Born on August 3rd, 1691

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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 1691

89

Richard Challoner

Roman Catholic bishop (1691-1781)

*August 29th, 1691, Lewes †January 12th, 1781, London

90

Friedrich Albrecht Augusti

German theologian and clergyman of Jewish descent (1691-1782)

*June 30th, 1691, Frankfurt (Oder) †May 13th, 1782, Eschenbergen

46

Alessandro Galilei

Florentine architect (1691-1737)

*August 25th, 1691, Florence †December 21st, 1737, Rome

86

Pierre-Herman Dosquet

Catholic bishop

*March 4th, 1691, Liège †March 4th, 1777, Paris

49

Ulrich Friedrich von Suhm

German diplomat

*April 29th, 1691, Dresden †November 8th, 1740, Saint Petersburg

77

Louis VIII, Landgrave of Hesse-Darmstadt

Landgrave of Hesse-Darmstadt

*April 5th, 1691, Darmstadt †October 17th, 1768, Darmstadt

80

Joachim Arndt Saltzmann

German gardener (1691-1771)

*June 3rd, 1691, Grabow †August 13th, 1771, Charlottenburg

90

Peter Scheemakers

Flemish sculptor

*January 16th, 1691, Antwerp †September 12th, 1781, Antwerp

76

Arthur Onslow

Speaker of the British House of Commons

*October 1st, 1691, Kensington †February 17th, 1768, London

60

Paul Egell

German sculptor and plasterer (1691-1752)

*April 9th, 1691, Waibstadt †January 10th, 1752, Mannheim

62

Edward Cave

British publisher

*February 27th, 1691, Newton †January 10th, 1754, Clerkenwell

67

Agostino Masucci

Italian painter (1691-1758)

*January 1st, 1691, Rome †October 19th, 1758, Rome

70

Johann Matthias Gesner

German classical scholar and schoolmaster (1691–1761)

*April 9th, 1691, Roth †August 3rd, 1761, Göttingen

66

Johann Peter Reusch

*August 15th, 1691, Almersbach †June 5th, 1758, Jena

77

Johann Thomas Wagner

*May 25th, 1691, Gebsattel †January 7th, 1769, Theres

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 1691 is a normal year and no leap year.

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