Page 8: Historical Events In August - 25
Tuesday, 03 February 2026
2007 Greek Prime Minister Kostas Karamanlis declares a national state of emergency after a series of devastating wildfires ravage western Peloponese and southern Euboea, killing 68 people 

2012 330 people are killed as a result of conflict in the Syrian civil war. 

2013 41 people are killed in a wave of bomb attacks across Iraq 

2014 66th Primetime Emmy Awards hosted by Seth Meyers broadcast on NBC. 

2017 President Donald Trump grants presidential pardon to Joe Arpaio, who had been convicted of contempt of court for racial profiling 

2017 Category 4 Hurricane Harvey makes landfall in Texas northeast of Corpus Christi with 130 m.p.h. winds. 

2017 Indian spiritual leader Gurmeet Ram Rahim Singh is convicted of raping two of his followers in Panchkula 

2017 Samsung heir Lee Jae-yong jailed for 5 years for corruption in South Korea. 

2017 ongoing - A military operation targeting Rohingya Muslims in Myanmar "seems a textbook example of ethnic cleansing", according to the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights. 

2017 Hurricane Harvey strikes the United States as a Category 4 hurricane, causing catastrophic damage to the Houston metropolitan area, mostly due to record-breaking floods. At least 90 deaths are recorded, and total damage reaches $198.6 billion (2017 USD), making Harvey the costliest natural disaster in United States history. 

2018 Afghan Islamic State leader Abu Saad Erhabi and 10 others killed in an air strike in province of Nangarhar, Afghanistan 

2019 2019 Beirut drone crash: According to Lebanese officials, two Israeli drones attack Beirut, Lebanon. One crashed into the roof of the Hezbollah Media Center, about 45 minutes before the second exploded in the air and damaged the building. It was the inaugural such incident between Israel and Lebanon since the 2006 Lebanon War 

2020 WHO announces that Africa has eradicated polio (defined as four years since last case) Learn More 

2020 Africa is declared free of wild polio, the second virus to be eradicated from the continent since smallpox 40 years previously 

2024 The Israel Defense Forces begin a series of preemptive strikes against targets in the south of Lebanon 

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