August 3rd (1929) was a Saturday. It's the 215th day of the year (216th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 150 days left to the end of the year.
Historical Events for 3rd August, 1929
» Jiddu Krishnamurti, tagged as the Messianism messianic "Maitreya (Theosophy) World Teacher", shocks the Theosophy movement by dissolving the Order of the Star in the East Order of the Star, the organisation built to support him.
August 3rd Famous Deaths for 1929
» Emile Berliner, German-American inverter and businessman, invented the phonograph (b. 1851)
» Thorstein Veblen, American economist and sociologist (b. 1857)
August 3rd Holidays in History
» Pidjiguiti Massacre e.g Anniversary of the Killing of Pidjiguiti (Guinea-Bissau)
» Armed Forces Day (Equatorial Guinea)
» Christian Calendar of saints known as Feast Day:
» Gamaliel
» Lydia of Thyatira
» Nicodemus
» Olaf II of Norway (Translation of the relic)
» Saint Stephen or Stephen (Discovery of the relic)
» Waltheof of Melrose
» Saint Joanna Joanna, Mary Mother of James Mary, and Salome (disciple) Salome, myrrh-bearing women (Lutheran Church)
» George Freeman Bragg, W.E.B. DuBois (Episcopal Church (USA))
» August 3 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
» Emancipation Day (Saint Vincent and the Grenadines)
» Public holidays in Venezuela e.g Flag Day (Venezuela)