August 3
People born on this day are Leo.
- 1972
The United States Senate ratifies the Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty.
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A privately chartered Boeing 707 strikes a mountain peak and crashes near Agadir, Morocco, killing 188.
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Senegalese opposition parties, under the leadership of Mamadou Dia, launch the Antiimperialist Action Front – Suxxali Reew Mi.
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Sky Tower in downtown Auckland, New Zealand opens after two-and-a-half years of construction, becoming the tallest free-standing structure in the Southern Hemisphere at the time.
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The pedestal of the Statue of Liberty reopens after being closed since the September 11 attacks.
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President of Mauritania Maaouya Ould Sid'Ahmed Taya is overthrown in a military coup while attending the funeral of King Fahd in Saudi Arabia.
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Former deputy director of the Chilean secret police Raúl Iturriaga is captured after having been on the run following a conviction for kidnapping.
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A 6.1 magnitude earthquake kills at least 617 people and injures more than 2,400 in Yunnan, China.
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The genocide of Yazidis by ISIL begins.
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Six hundred protesters, including opposition leader Lyubov Sobol, are arrested in an election protest in Moscow, Russia.
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Twenty-three people are killed and 22 injured in a mass shooting at a Walmart in El Paso, Texas.
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Major floods hit parts of Slovenia.
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1999Zach Wilson, American football player
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1999Brahim Díaz, Spanish-Moroccan footballer
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1999Yoo Yeon-jung, South Korean singer
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1997Luis Robert Jr., Cuban baseball player
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1996Alec Bohm, American baseball player
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1996Bokondji Imama, Canadian ice hockey player
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1996Derwin James, American football player
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1995Zac Gallen, American baseball player
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1995Victoria Kan, Russian tennis player
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1994Kwon Alexander, American football player
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1994Esther Earl, American author, vlogger, and online personality (died 2010)
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1994Younghoe Koo, South Korean-born American football player
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