August 3rd, 1776

Born on August 3rd, 1776

Age in days, weeks and months
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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 1776

55

Sophie Germain

French mathematician, physicist, and philosopher (1776-1831)

*April 1st, 1776, Paris †June 27th, 1831, Paris

79

Amedeo Avogadro

Italian scientist

*August 9th, 1776, Turin †July 9th, 1856, Turin

54

Barthold Georg Niebuhr

Danish-German statesman and historian (1776–1831)

*August 27th, 1776, Copenhagen †January 2nd, 1831, Bonn

59

Friedrich Stromeyer

German Chemist

*August 2nd, 1776, Göttingen †August 18th, 1835, Göttingen

33

Johann Wilhelm Ritter

German chemist, physicist and philosopher

*December 16th, 1776, Zamienice †January 23rd, 1810, Munich

250

Vani Hari

American blogger

*March 22nd, 1776, Charlotte

55

Elizabeth Parke Custis Law

American social leader (1776-1831)

*August 21st, 1776, British America †December 31st, 1831, Richmond

78

Pietro Nobile

Italian architect and builder (1776-1854)

*October 11th, 1776, Capriasca †November 7th, 1854, Vienna

65

Amos Eaton

American botanist (1776-1842)

*May 17th, 1776, Chatham †May 10th, 1842, Troy

63

Aimé Picquet du Boisguy

French counter revolutionary

*March 15th, 1776, Fougères †October 25th, 1839, Paris

61

Gottfried Reinhold Treviranus

German biologist (1776-1837)

*February 4th, 1776, Bremen †February 16th, 1837, Bremen

67

Augustin-Marie d'Aboville

French artillery officer during the French Revolutionary Wars and Napoleonic Wars

*April 20th, 1776, La Fère †June 20th, 1843, Paris

77

Johannes Geibel

German theologian (1776-1853)

*April 1st, 1776, Hanau †July 25th, 1853, Lübeck

81

Princess Mary of the United Kingdom

British princess, daughter of George III; (1776-1857)

*April 25th, 1776, Buckingham Palace †April 30th, 1857, Gloucester House

82

George M. Bibb

American politician (1776-1859)

*October 30th, 1776, Prince Edward County †April 14th, 1859, Georgetown

58

Peter Erasmus Müller

Danish historian, linguist, and clergy member

*May 29th, 1776, Copenhagen †September 4th, 1834, Copenhagen

71

Karl Gottlieb Bretschneider

German theologian

*February 11th, 1776, Gersdorf †January 22nd, 1848, Gotha

40

Antonio Baraya

Colombian soldier (1776-1816)

*January 31st, 1776, Girón †July 20th, 1816, Bogotá

64

Princess Amalie of Nassau-Weilburg

German noblewoman, Princess of Anhalt-Bernburg-Schaumburg-Hoym (1776-1841)

*August 6th, 1776, Kirchheimbolanden †February 19th, 1841, Schaumburg Castle

65

George Birkbeck

British doctor, academic, philanthropist, and pioneer in adult education (1776-1841)

*January 10th, 1776, Settle †December 1st, 1841, London

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: 1776 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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