Are you asking the question “What day of the week was I born?” Continue reading to find out what day of the week you were born.
Day Of The Week: August 3
August 3, 2024 is the 216th day of the year 2024 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 150 days remaining until the end of 2024. The day of the week is Saturday.
If you are into daily horoscope then Leo is your zodiac sign. Peridot is your modern birthstone. Diamond is your mystical birthstone from Tibetan origin that dates back over a thousand years.
Historical Events: August 3
- 8 –Roman Empire general Tiberius defeats Dalmatae on the river Bathinus.
- 435 –Deposed Patriarch of Constantinople Nestorius, considered the originator of Nestorianism, is exiled by Roman Emperor Theodosius II to a monastery in Egypt.
- 1678 –Robert LaSalle builds the Le Griffon, the first known ship built on the Great Lakes.
- 1783 –Mount Asama erupts in Japan, killing 35,000 people.
- 1921 –Major League Baseball Commissioner Kenesaw Mountain Landis confirms the ban of the eight Chicago Black Sox, the day after they were acquitted by a Chicago court.
- 1946 –Santa Claus Land, the world’s first themed amusement park, opens in Santa Claus, Indiana, US.
- 1948 –Whittaker Chambers accuses Alger Hiss of being a communist and a spy for the Soviet Union.
- 1975 –A privately chartered Boeing 707 crashes into the mountainside near Agadir, Morocco, killing 188.
- 2004 –The pedestal of the Statue of Liberty reopens after being closed since the September 11 attacks.
- 2005 –President of Mauritania Maaouya Ould Sid'Ahmed Taya is overthrown in a military coup while attending the funeral of King Fahd in Saudi Arabia.
Who were born on August 3?
- 1907 –Lawrence Brown, American jazz trombonist (d. 1988)
- 1916 –Shakeel Badayuni, Indian poet and lyricist (d. 1970)
- 1918 –Sidney Gottlieb, American CIA official (d. 1999)
- 1921 –Richard Adler, American lyricist and composer
- 1941 –Martha Stewart, American media personality
- 1950 –Jo Marie Payton, American actress
- 1952 –Loles León, Spanish actress
- 1959 –Koichi Tanaka, Japanese engineer and chemist, Nobel laureate
- 1961 –Molly Hagan, American actress
- 1968 –Rod Beck, American baseball player (d. 2007)
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