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What Happened On 3rd August 2008 In History

August 3rd (2008) was a Sunday. 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.

August 3rd Famous Deaths for 2008

  • » Skip Caray, American sportscaster (b. 1939)
  • » Erik Darling, American singer-songwriter (The Weavers, The Tarriers, and The Rooftop Singers) (b. 1933)
  • » Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Russian author and critic (b. 1918)

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)

Year 2008 historical events for the month of August

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World History for the 3rd August