{"id":11221,"date":"2023-08-03T00:31:43","date_gmt":"2023-08-02T19:01:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fundabook.com\/en\/?p=11221"},"modified":"2023-07-31T17:54:22","modified_gmt":"2023-07-31T12:24:22","slug":"history-of-3-august","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fundabook.com\/en\/history-of-3-august\/","title":{"rendered":"History of 3 August"},"content":{"rendered":"

History of 3 August<\/h2>\n

1900<\/strong> – Firestone Tire & Rubber Co. was founded.<\/p>\n

1914<\/strong> – Germany declared war on France. The next day World War I began when Britain declared war on Germany.<\/p>\n

1922<\/strong> – WGY radio in Schenectady,\u00a0NY, presented the first full-length melodrama on the radio. The work was “The Wolf”, written by Eugene Walter.<\/p>\n

1923<\/strong> – Calvin Coolidge was sworn in as the 30th president of the\u00a0U.S.\u00a0after the sudden death of President Harding.<\/p>\n

1933<\/strong> – The Mickey Mouse Watch was introduced for the price of $2.75.<\/p>\n

1936<\/strong> – The\u00a0U.S.\u00a0State Department advised Americans to leave Spain due to the Spanish Civil War.<\/p>\n

1936<\/strong> – Jesse Owens won the first of his four Olympic gold medals.<\/p>\n

1943<\/strong> – Gen. George S. Patton verbally abused and slapped a private. Later, Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower ordered him to apologize for the incident.<\/p>\n

1949<\/strong> – The National Basketball Association (NBA) was formed. The league was formed by the merger between the Basketball Association of America and the National Basketball League.<\/p>\n

1956<\/strong> – Bedloe’s Island had its name changed to Liberty Island.<\/p>\n

1958<\/strong> – The\u00a0Nautilus<\/i>\u00a0became the first vessel to cross the North Pole underwater. The mission was known as “Operation Sunshine.”<\/p>\n

1979<\/strong> – “More American Graffiti” was released.<\/p>\n

1979<\/strong> – Johnny Carson, the “Tonight Show” host, was on the cover of the Burbank, CA, telephone directory.<\/p>\n

1981<\/strong> –\u00a0U.S.\u00a0traffic controllers with PATCO, the Professional Air Traffic Controllers Organization, went on strike. They were fired just as\u00a0U.S. President Reagan\u00a0had warned.<\/p>\n

1984<\/strong> – Mary Lou Retton won a gold medal at the Los Angeles Summer Olympics.<\/p>\n

1985<\/strong> – Mail service returned to a nudist colony in Paradise Lake,\u00a0FL. Residents promised that they’d wear clothes or stay out of sight when the mailperson came to deliver.<\/p>\n

1988<\/strong> – The Iran-Contra hearings ended. No ties were made between\u00a0U.S.\u00a0President Reagan and the Nicaraguan Rebels.<\/p>\n

1988<\/strong> – The Soviet Union released Mathias Rust. He had been taken into custody on May 28, 1987, for landing a plane in Moscow’s Red Square.<\/p>\n

1989<\/strong> – Hashemi Rafsanjani was sworn in as the president of Iran.<\/p>\n

1990<\/strong> – Thousands of Iraqi troops pushed within a few miles of the border of Saudi Arabia. This heightened world concerns that the invasion of Kuwait could spread.<\/p>\n

1992<\/strong> – The\u00a0U.S.\u00a0Senate voted to restrict and eventually end the testing of nuclear weapons.<\/p>\n

1992<\/strong> – Russia and Ukraine agreed to put the Black Sea Fleet under joint command. The agreement was to last for three years.<\/p>\n

1995<\/strong> – Eyad Ismoil was flown from Jordan to the\u00a0U.S.\u00a0to face charges that he had driven the van that blew up in New York’s World Trade Center.<\/p>\n

2004<\/strong> – In New York, the Statue of Liberty re-opened to the public. The site had been closed since the terrorist attacks on the U.S. on September 11, 2001.<\/p>\n

2004<\/strong> – NASA launched the spacecraft Messenger. The 6 1\/2 year journey was planned to arrive at the planet Mercury in March 2011. On April 30, 2015, Messenger crashed into the surface of Mercury after sending back more than 270,000 pictures.<\/p>\n

2009<\/strong> – Bolivia became the first South American country to declare the right of indigenous people to govern themselves.<\/p>\n

2010<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Widespread rioting\u00a0erupts in\u00a0Karachi,\u00a0Pakistan, after the assassination of a local politician, leaving at least 85 dead and at least 17 billion\u00a0Pakistani rupees\u00a0(US$200 million) in damage.<\/p>\n

2014<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013 A 6.1 magnitude\u00a0earthquake\u00a0kills at least 617 people and injures more than 2,400 in\u00a0Yunnan, China.<\/p>\n

2018<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013 Two burka-clad men have killed 29 people and injured more than 80 in a suicide attack on a Shia mosque in eastern Afghanistan.<\/p>\n

Celebrating Birthday Today<\/strong><\/h2>\n
    \n
  • 1981<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Fikirte Addis, Ethiopian fashion designer<\/li>\n
  • 1981<\/strong> \u2013\u00a0Travis Bowyer, American baseball player<\/li>\n
  • 1981<\/strong> \u2013\u00a0Pablo Ib\u00e1\u00f1ez, Spanish footballer<\/li>\n
  • 1982<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Kaspar Kokk, Estonian skier<\/li>\n
  • 1982<\/strong> \u2013\u00a0Jesse Lumsden, Canadian bobsledder and football player<\/li>\n
  • 1982<\/strong> \u2013\u00a0Damien Sandow, American wrestler<\/li>\n
  • 1983<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Ryan Carter, American ice hockey player<\/li>\n
  • 1983<\/strong> \u2013\u00a0Mark Reynolds, American baseball player<\/li>\n
  • 1984<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Yasin Avc\u0131, Turkish footballer<\/li>\n
  • 1984<\/strong> \u2013\u00a0Sunil Chhetri, Indian footballer<\/li>\n
  • 1984<\/strong> \u2013\u00a0Matt Joyce, American baseball player<\/li>\n
  • 1984<\/strong> \u2013\u00a0Ryan Lochte, American swimmer<\/li>\n
  • 1984<\/strong> \u2013\u00a0Chris Maurer, American singer, and bass player<\/li>\n
  • 1985<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Georgina Haig, Australian actress<\/sup><\/li>\n
  • 1985<\/strong> \u2013\u00a0Brent Kutzle, American bass player and producer<\/li>\n
  • 1985<\/strong> \u2013\u00a0Ats Purje, Estonian footballer<\/li>\n
  • 1985<\/strong> \u2013\u00a0Sonny Bill Williams, New Zealand rugby player, and boxer<\/li>\n
  • 1986<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Charlotte Casiraghi, Mon\u00e9gasque journalist, co-founded\u00a0Ever Manifesto<\/i><\/li>\n
  • 1986<\/strong> \u2013\u00a0Darya Domracheva, Belarusian biathlete<\/li>\n
  • 1987<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Kim Hyung-jun, South Korean singer and dancer<\/li>\n
  • 1987<\/strong> \u2013\u00a0Chris McQueen, Australian-English rugby league player<\/li>\n
  • 1988<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Denny Cardin, Italian footballer<\/li>\n
  • 1988<\/strong> \u2013\u00a0Leigh Tiffin, American football player<\/li>\n
  • 1988<\/strong> \u2013\u00a0Sven Ulreich, German footballer<\/li>\n
  • 1989<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Jules Bianchi, French race car driver (d. 2015)<\/li>\n
  • 1989<\/strong> \u2013\u00a0Sam Hutchinson, English footballer<\/li>\n
  • 1989<\/strong> \u2013\u00a0Tyrod Taylor, American football player<\/li>\n
  • 1989<\/strong> \u2013\u00a0Nick Viergever, Dutch footballer<\/li>\n
  • 1990<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Jourdan Dunn, English model<\/li>\n
  • 1990<\/strong> \u2013\u00a0Kang Min-Kyung, South Korean singer, member of duo group Davichi<\/li>\n
  • 1992<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Gamze Bulut, Turkish runner<\/li>\n
  • 1992<\/strong> \u2013\u00a0Gesa Felicitas Krause, German runner<\/li>\n
  • 1992<\/strong> \u2013\u00a0Di\u0101na Marcink\u0113vi\u010da, a Latvian tennis player<\/li>\n
  • 1992<\/strong> \u2013\u00a0Aljon Mariano, Filipino basketball player<\/li>\n
  • 1992<\/strong> \u2013\u00a0Lum Rexhepi, Finnish footballer<\/li>\n
  • 1993<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Ola Abidogun, English sprinter<\/li>\n
  • 1993<\/strong> \u2013\u00a0Yurina Kumai, Japanese singer<\/li>\n
  • 1994<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Manaia Cherrington, New Zealand rugby league player<\/li>\n
  • 1994<\/strong> \u2013\u00a0Todd Gurley, American football player<\/li>\n
  • 1995<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Victoria Kan, a Russian tennis player<\/li>\n
  • 1999<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Yoo Yeon-Jung, South Korean singer<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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