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This is a list of selected August 3 anniversaries that appear in the "On this day" section of the Main Page. To suggest a new item, in most cases, you can be bold and edit this page. Please read the selected anniversaries guidelines before making your edit. However, if your addition might be controversial or on a day that is or will soon be on the Main Page, please post your suggestion on the talk page instead.

Please note that the events listed on the Main Page are chosen based more on relative article quality and to maintain a mix of topics, not based solely on how important or significant their subjects are. Only four to five events are posted at a time and thus not everything that is "most important and significant" can be listed. In addition, an event is generally not posted this year if it is also the subject of the scheduled featured article or picture of the day.

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Blurb Reason
Independence Day in Niger (1960); unreferenced section
Flag Day in Venezuela unreferenced section
435Nestorius, the originator of Nestorianism, was exiled by Byzantine Emperor Theodosius II to a monastery in Egypt. refimprove section
1645 – France and the Holy Roman Empire fought in the Second Battle of Nördlingen. needs more footnotes
1795 – The United States signed the Treaty of Greenville with the Western Confederacy coalition of Native Americans, ending the Northwest Indian War. unreferenced section
1811 – A climbing team led by the Meyer brothers from Aarau became the first to reach the summit of the Jungfrau, one of the main summits of the Bernese Alps. refimprove section
1852 – The inaugural Harvard–Yale Regatta—the first intercollegiate sports event in the United States—was held on Lake Winnipesaukee, New Hampshire. unreferenced section
1900 – The Firestone Tire and Rubber Company, a pioneer in the mass production of automobile tires, was founded by Harvey Firestone in Akron, Ohio, U.S. refimprove
1916Irish nationalist Sir Roger Casement was hanged at London's Pentonville Prison for treason for his role in the Easter Rising, a rebellion to win Irish independence from Britain. refimprove sections
1948 – Before the House Un-American Activities Committee of the United States House of Representatives, former spy turned government informer Whittaker Chambers accused U.S. State Department official Alger Hiss of being a communist and a Soviet spy. Chambers: refimprove section
1949 – The Basketball Association of America agreed to merge with the National Basketball League to form the National Basketball Association. unreferenced section
1960Niger officially gained independence from France as part of the decolonization of the French Community. unreferenced section
1961 – Canada's New Democratic Party was founded with the merger of the Co-operative Commonwealth Federation and organised labour. refimprove section
1997 – The Sky Tower, the tallest free-standing structure in the Southern Hemisphere at 328 m (1,076 ft), opened in Auckland. unreferenced section
2007 – Former Deputy Director of the Chilean secret police Raúl Iturriaga was captured after having been on the run following a conviction for kidnapping. occurred on August 2

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August 3: Feast day of W. E. B. Du Bois (pictured) in The Episcopal Church

W. E. B. Du Bois
W. E. B. Du Bois

Empress Dowager Cao (d. 925) · Christopher Anstey (d. 1805) · Alexander Mair (d. 1969)

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