It happened on this day, August 3rd.
events:
1342 – Beginning of the siege of Algeciras during the Spanish Reconquista.
1492 – Christopher Columbus and 88 sailors set out on a voyage to discover the New World. This voyage is historic because they were able to discover the richest regions of the world in the Americas.
1783 – The Asama volcano explodes in Japan, killing 35,000 people.
1914 – Germany declares war on France at the start of World War I.
1940 – The Italian army invades British Somaliland during World War II.
1960 – Niger gains independence from France.
1986 – The Soviet Union resumes diplomatic contacts with Israel.
2005 – A peaceful coup in Mauritania led by Colonel Ely Ould Mohamed Vall overthrows President Maaouya Ould Sidi Ahmed Taya while he was in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia to attend funeral and condolence ceremonies for the death of King Fahd bin Abdulaziz.
2009 – Iranian Islamic Revolution leader Ali Khamenei certifies President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's victory in the June 12 presidential election.
2010 – Clashes between Lebanese army forces and Israeli army forces in the border town of Al-Adissa.
2011 – Trial of former Egyptian President Mohamed Hosni Mubarak begins on charges of premeditated murder and corruption.
2016 – 300 passengers survive after the plane they were traveling on crashes and burns at Dubai International Airport.
2019 – An assault rifle attack at a Walmart store in El Paso, Texas, leaves 22 dead and at least 40 injured, and police say the motive may have been racially motivated.
2020 – The number of confirmed infections from the Corona pandemic exceeds 18 million people worldwide, including more than 689,000 deaths and approximately ten million 690,000 recovered cases.
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Births:
1867 – Stanley Baldwin, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.
1903 – Habib Bourguiba, President of the Tunisian Republic.
1905 – Muhammad Al-Bahi, former Egyptian Minister of Endowments.
1907 – Muhammad Al-Heliwi, Tunisian poet.
1923 – Pope Shenouda III, Pope and Patriarch of the Coptic Orthodox Church.
1926 – Rushdi Abaza, Egyptian actor.
1938 – Ahmed Akl, Egyptian actor.
1940 – Martin Sheen, American actor.
1944 – Boutros Harb, Lebanese politician.
1946 – Jack Straw, British politician. Jacos Tigels, Belgian footballer.
1948 – Madiha Kamel, Egyptian actress.
1952 – Osvaldo Ardiles, Argentine footballer and coach.
1961 – Laila Muhammad, Iraqi actress.
1963 – James Hetfield, American singer, guitarist and member of the band Metallica.
** Graham Arnold, Australian football player and coach.
** Isiah Washington, American actor.
1964 – Abhisit Vejjajiva, Prime Minister of Thailand.
1969 – Samer Al-Masry, Syrian actor.
1974 – Muhannad Hassan Al-Shawi, Iraqi poet.
1978 – Mariusz Job, Polish footballer.
1980 – Muhammad Al-Majali, Jordanian actor.
1984 – Sunil Chhetri, Indian footballer.
1988 – Taj Haidar, Syrian actress.
** Nasra Al-Harbi, a Saudi actress.
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Death:
1460 – King James II, King of Scots.
1780 – Condiac, French philosopher.
1797 – Field Marshal Geoffrey Amherst, English military commander and first British Governor General of Canada.
1924 – Joseph Conrad, British writer.
1933 – Abdullah bin Ahmed Al-Ajiri, Saudi poet, storyteller and writer.
1942 – Richard Felstetter, German chemist who won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1915.
1949 – Omar bin Hamdan, Tunisian Muslim scholar.
1958 – Arif Abu Shakra, Lebanese professor, journalist, writer and poet.
1977 – Archbishop Makarios, President and Archbishop of the Cypriot Orthodox Church and first President of Cyprus.
1979 – Bertil Ohlin, Swedish economist, Nobel Prize in Economics in 1977.
1999 – Abdul Wahab Al-Bayati, Iraqi poet.
2008 – Alexander Solzhenitsyn, Russian writer, Nobel Prize for Literature in 1970.
2009 – Samir Ghosheh, Palestinian politician.
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Public holidays and occasions:
⬅️ Independence Day in Niger.
⬅️ Flag Day in Venezuela.
⬅️ International Red Watermelon Day
