Historical Events In August - 03

1974  On August - 03 almira Sessions, actress (Okla Annie), dies at 85  

1975  On August - 03 500 drown when 2 river boats collide & sink in China's West River  

1975  Louisiana Superdome is dedicated on this day in history.  

1975  Ruth Lee, actress (Middleton Family at 1939 World's Fair), dies at 79 on August - 03.  

1977  On August - 03 radio Shack announces TRS-80 computer. Within weeks thousands were ordered  

1977  On this day in history alfred Lunt, actor (Guardsman, Sally of Sawdust), dies at 83  

1978  On this day in history ezzedin Kalak, Palestinian PLO representative in Paris, murdered  

1979  Renato Fasano, composer, dies at 76 on August - 03.  

1981  Robert Peci, Italian brother of Red Brigade leader, murdered on August - 03.  

1983  Carolyn Jones, actress (Morticia-Addams Family), dies at 54 of cancer on August - 03.  

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1984  On August - 03 365.7 million shares traded in NY Stock Exchange  

1986  Paul [Saul] de Groot, chairman Dutch Communist party, dies at 87 on this day in history.  

1989  On this day in history lawrence Delisle drives his 4 kids into river  

1990  On August - 03 radio Kuwait goes off the air, due to the Iraqi invasion  

1990  On this day in history uS announces commitment of Naval forces to Gulf regions  

1990  On this day in history florida Edwards, dies of pneumonia at 79  

1991  Pan Am games open in Havana on this day in history.  

1992  Wang Hongwen, vice-President Chinese Comm Party (1973-76), dies on August - 03.  

1993  James Donald, actor (In Which We Serve, Way Ahead), dies at 76 on this day in history.  

1994  Carel van Dillen, resistance fighter, dies at 77 on this day in history.  

1995  Carl Donnell "Kansas" Fields, drummer, dies at 79 on August - 03.  

1996  On this day in history guido Alberti, literary patron/businessman, dies at 87  

2007  On this day in history a strain of foot and mouth disease is found on a farm at Wanborough, near to Guildford, Surrey. Gordon Brown holds a COBRA meeting by phone on the outbreak. For more information see 2007 United Kingdom foot-and-mouth outbreak.  

2012  On August - 03 united Nations General Assembly c reproaches The United Nations Security Council over its lack of action in Syria  

2013  9 children are killed by a suicide bombing in Jalalabad, Afghanistan on this day in history.  

2014  On this day in history the Israeli Defence Force remove much of its ground forces from the Gaza Strip following the destruction of 32 tunnels built by Hamas and other militants  

2014  On this day in history ludian earthquake in China killing 729 people  

2017  Iranian President Hassan Rouhani is elected for his second term as President on August - 03.  

2017  Footballer Neymar signs 5-year deal with club Paris Saint-Germain in a $263 million world-record transfer from Barcelona on this day in history.  

2017  Massachusetts woman Michelle Carter sentenced to 2 1/2 years for urging her boyfriend to commit suicide on August - 03.  

2017  On this day in history rapper Kidd Creole arrested and charged for stabbing to death a homeless man in New York City  

2019  A mass shooting at a Walmart store in El Paso, Texas, United States, leaves 22 people dead and 24 others injured on August - 03.  

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1509  On August - 03 birth of Étienne Dolet, French scholar (d. 1546)  

1645  On this day in history birth of august Kuhnel, composer  

1692  On this day in history birth of john Henley, English clergyman (d. 1759)  

1748  Carl Ludwig Junker, composer was born on this day in history.  

1770  On this day in history birth of frederik Willem III, reactionary king of Prussia (1797-1840)  

1801  Joseph Paxton, English landscape architect (Crystal Palace) was born on August - 03.  

1808  Hamilton Fish, American politician (d. 1893) was born on August - 03.  

1811  On this day in history birth of elisha Graves Otis, inventor (safe elevator)  

0808  P'ang Yun, [Layman P'ang], Exemplary Zen practitioner, dies in China on August - 03.  

1387  On August - 03 olaf V Haakonsson, King of Denmark (1376-87)/Norway (1380-87), dies  

1460  On August - 03 death of king James II of Scotland (b. 1430)  

1527  Death of Scaramuccia Trivulzio, Italian cardinal on August - 03.  

1530  Philibert Chalon, prince of Orange/viceroy of Naples, dies on this day in history.  

1546  On this day in history death of antonio da Sangallo the Younger, Italian architect (b. 1484)  

1604  Death of Bernardino de Mendoza, Spanish military commander on August - 03.  

1621  On August - 03 death of guillaume du Vair, French writer (b. 1556)