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Events on August 3

• 1492 Christopher Columbus sets out with the ships Santa Maria, Niña and Pinta on his first voyage of discovery.
• 1804 Alexander von Humboldt and Aimé Bonpland return from their great American journey.
• 1830 The Royal Museum on Berlin's Museum Island, a building by Karl Friedrich Schinkel, is inaugurated.
• 1936 Jesse Owens wins the gold medal in the 100-meter race at the Olympic Games in Berlin.
• 1945 In the Soviet occupation zone in Germany, the later GDR, the daily newspaper Der Morgen appears for the first time.
• 1957 On the occasion of the radio exhibition in Frankfurt am Main, the first broadcast of Zum Blauen Bock with Otto Höpfner is aired by ARD.
• 1958 The nuclear submarine Nautilus becomes the first watercraft to reach the geographic North Pole.
• 1963 The Beatles play their final concert at the Cavern Club in Liverpool.
• 1984 In Germany, the first email is received at 10:14 CET. It was sent from Cambridge (Massachusetts) to the University of Karlsruhe (TH) one day earlier.
• 2004 The Statue of Liberty is reopened to visitors after it was closed in the wake of the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks.
• 2005 The sporting goods manufacturer adidas announces that the company intends to buy its competitor Reebok for 3.1 billion euros.
• 2014 The Islamist terrorist organization Islamic State begins a genocide against the Yazidis in the Iraqi city of Sinjar and the surrounding area.

Born on August 3

• 1872 Haakon VII., King of Norway
• 1912 Otto Siffling, German football player
• 1920 P. D. James, British crime novelist
• 1922 Kurt Zips, Austrian actor
• 1940 Martin Sheen, American actor
• 1941 Martha Stewart, American businesswoman
• 1950 Waldemar Cierpinski, German marathon runner, Olympic champion
• 1950 John Landis, American film director
• 1982 Robert Stadlober, Austrian actor
• 1990 Dominik Krause, German politician, Lord Mayor of Munich

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Source of events and birthdays: German Wikipedia article „3. August“, licence CC BY-SA 4.0, selected, shortened and translated by Birthday Paper.

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