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Events, deaths, births, of AUG 03 [For Aug 03 Julian go to Gregorian date: 1583~1699: Aug 13 1700s: Aug 14 1800s: Aug 15 1900~2099: Aug 16] |
1984 Primera huelga general en Argentina contra el Gobierno del presidente Raúl Alfonsín. 1984 365.7 million shares traded in NY Stock Exchange
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1967 US President Lyndon B. Johnson announces plans to send 45'000
more troops to Vietnam. 1966 Nikolai Podgorny es reelegido presidente del Soviet Supremo y, con ello, jefe de Estado de la URSS.
1960 Niger gains independence from France
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1957 Proclamación de la independencia de Malasia. 1954 first VTOL (Vertical Take-off and Land) flown 1951 EEUU suprime el conjunto de facilidades aduaneras otorgadas después de la guerra mundial a los países comunistas.
1945 Chinese troops under American General Joseph Stilwell take the town of Myitkyina from the Japanese. 1944 II Guerra Mundial: Tropas aliadas liberan Bruselas.
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1936 The US State Department urged US nationals in Spain to leave because of that country's civil war. 1932 The Dow Industrial Average makes a 9.52 gain, one of the biggest single day jumps in market history. This is in the midst of the Depression, and it turns out not to signal a return to prosperity
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1923 United States President Calvin
Coolidge is inaugurated as the 30th president of the United States,
following the death of Warren G. Harding. 1921 first aerial cropdusting (Troy, Ohio, to kill caterpillars) 1921 Baseball commissioner Kenesaw Mountain Landis refused to reinstate the former Chicago White Sox players implicated in the "Black Sox" scandal, despite their acquittals in a jury trial. 1914 Germany invades Belgium and declares war on France in WW I I Guerra Mundial: Francia, Bélgica e Inglaterra declaran la guerra a Alemania. 1912 Turquía concede una autonomía limitada a Albania. 1911 First military use of aiplanes: Italian planes reconnoiter Turkish lines near Tripoli. 1906 Firma en Pekín de un tratado entre Inglaterra y China por el que ambos países se comprometieron a respetar la independencia del Tibet.
1868 La provincia de Buenos Aires sustituye la pena capital por la de presidio que, como máximo, será de 20 años. 1864 Federal gunboats attack but do not capture Fort Gains, at the mouth of Mobile Bay, Alabama.. 1863 Siege of Fort Wagner, Charleston Harbor, South Carolina continues 1863 Governor Seymour asks Lincoln to suspend draft in NY 1861 Balloon ascension by John LaMountain at Hampton Roads, Virginia
1808 Guerra de la Independencia española. Primer sitio de Zaragoza. 1807 The trial of Aaron Burr begins. He is accused of plotting the secession of New England. 1805 Mohammed Ali becomes the new ruler of Egypt.
1610 Henry Hudson of England discovers a great bay on the east coast of Canada and names it for himself. 1596 David Fabricius discovers light variation of Mira (first variable star discovered). By the late 20th century, more than 30'000 variable stars had been catalogued. 1553 "Bloody" Mary I Tudor, 37, the new Queen of England, enters London. Protestant heads will roll. Her predecessor 9-day teen queen Lady Jane Grey is in prison. 1540 Coronado writes to Viceroy Mendoza: Coronado's Report to Viceroy Mendoza Sent from Cibola, 03 August 1540 (English translation) 1529 Se firma la Paz de Cambrai, tratado de paz entre Carlos I de España y V de Alemania y el monarca francés Francisco I, quien renuncia a los territorios italianos, a Flandes y a las plazas del Artois.
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Deaths which
occurred on an August 03: ^top^ 2001 Abdullah Abu Alhawa, 56, Palestinian gunned down by Palestinians in a Bethlehem public square, being suspected of collaborating with Israel. 1979 Víctor Raúl Haya de la Torre, político peruano. 1977 Makarios III, arzobispo ortodoxo y político chipriota. 1966 René Schick, presidente de Nicaragua. 1964 Eduardo Cote Lamus, poeta y político colombiano. 1959 Jakob Nielsen, mathematician 1954 Colette, 81, France, novelist (Claudine) 1950 Hundreds of South Korean refugees crossing a bridge on the Naktong River as it was blown up by demolition charges set the previous day by members of the US Army's 14th Combat Engineer Battalion. 1936 Heinrich Hörle, German artist born on 01 September 1895. 1934 Cecilio Pla y Gallardo, pintor español. 1929 Pascal Adolphe Jean Dagnan-Bouveret, French painter born on 07 January 1852. LINKS Whitney Warren Sr. (1916, 26x19cm) Hamlet and the Gravediggers (1883)
1922 Lerch, mathematician 1917 Ferdinand Georg Frobenius, German mathematician.
1895 Théodore Gérard, Belgian artist born on 09 December 1829. 1860 Simon Saint-Jean, French painter, specialized in still life and flowers, born on 14 October 1808. MORE ON SAINT~JEAN AT ART 4 AUGUST LINKS Still Life With Flowers and Wild Raspberries Flowers and Fruit other Flowers and Fruit Flowers and Grapes Flowers and Grapes by a Window 1592 Francesco Giambattista da Ponte Bassano, Italian Mannerist painter, commits suicide by throwing himself out of a window. He was born on 11 January 1549. MORE ON BASSANO AT ART 4 AUGUST LINKS Summer Return of the Prodigal Son Jesus Carrying the Cross up to Calvary Jacopo Bassano and his son Francesco Bassano jointly painted Christ in the House of Mary, Martha, and Lazarus 1546 Etienne Dolet, French printer, accused of heresy, blasphemy and sedition, hanged and burned at the stake for printing reformist literature. 1460 Jacobo II, rey de Escocia. |
Births which occurred on
an August 03: ^top^ 1977 The TRS-80 computer in introduced by a Radio Shack press release. 25 existed, within weeks thousands were ordered 1950 Ernesto Samper Pizano, político colombiano. 1948 Carmen Álvarez-Arenas Cisneros, política española. 1924 Leon Uris (novelist: Battle Cry, Exodus, QB VII, Mitla Pass; screenplay: Gunfight at the O.K. Corral) 1920 Phyllis Dorothy James, British mystery writer. 1918 James MacGregor Burns political writer (The Lion and the Fox) 1914 Mark Kac, mathematician who said: "There are surely worse things than being wrong, and being dull and pedantic are surely among them." 1910 John Gunther (writer: Inside series: Inside Europe, Asia, Latin America, USA., Africa, Russia Today, Europe Today; Behind the Curtain; foreign correspondent: Chicago Daily News) 1909 Walter Van Tilberg, Western novelist who wrote The Ox-Bow Incident. 1909 José María Areilza y Martínez Rodas, conde de Motrico, político español. 1905 Maggie Kuhn, social activist and founder of "The Gray Panthers." 1903 Habib Ben Ali Burguiba, político tunecino. 1902 Habib Bourguiba, first president of Tunisia 1900 Ernie Pyle (journalist: Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter [1944]: reports of 1940 London bombings and war reports from Africa, Italy and France; managing editor: Washington Daily News) wrote about the common soldier. His books Here Is Your War and Brave Men were made up from his columns. He died on 18 April 1945 from Japanese machine gun fire on Ie Jima. 1900 John T Scopes (high school teacher: subject of famous 1925 Scopes Monkey Trial: convicted of teaching evolution in Tennessee school)
1872 Haakon VII Charlottenlund Denmark, King of Norway 1867 Stanley Earl Baldwin, (C) British PM (1923-24, 1924-29, 1935-37) in office during the general strike of 1926. Stanley Baldwin, humanista y político británico.
1843 Edmund Berninger, German artist who died after 1909. 1825 Erskine Nikol, British artist who died on 09 March 1904.
1805 Auguste Etienne François Mayer, French artist who died on 22 September 1890. 1789 Johann Friedrich Overbeck, German painter who died on 12 November 1869. Joseph Being Sold by his Brothers (1816). 1778 La Scala, teatro de Milán, se inaugura con la ópera "Europa Riconosciuta", de Antonio Salieri. 1755 Lazare Bruandet, French artist who died on 26 March 1804.
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