- What happened on August 3rd?
Current Calendar Page for August 3, 2024
Name Day
Benno, Burchard, Lydia
Historical Events
2019 - German-American supermodel Heidi Klum marries Tokio Hotel singer Tom Kaulitz in her fourth marriage. The celebration takes place on a luxury yacht off the Italian island of Capri.
2014 - The Islamic State (IS) terrorist group captures the main settlement of the Kurdish minority of the Yazidis in Iraq. Tens of thousands are killed, abducted, enslaved, and mistreated, causing a mass exodus.
1949 - The National Basketball Association (NBA) is formed in the United States from the merger of the Basketball Association of America (BAA) and the National Basketball League (NBL).
1914 - The German Empire declares war on France. German troops soon march into neutral Belgium to attack France from the north.
1804 - German naturalist Alexander von Humboldt and French botanist Aimé Bonpland return from a more than five-year research trip through Central and South America.
Birthdays
1984 - Ryan Lochte (40), American swimmer, multiple Olympic medals
1964 - Radek Knapp (60), Austrian writer of Polish origin ("Herrn Kukas Recommendations")
1949 - Fritz Egner (75), German TV host (game show "Dingsda")
1924 - Leon Uris, American author ("Exodus"), died 2003
Deaths
2004 - Henri Cartier-Bresson, French photographer and journalist, co-founder of Magnum Photos in 1947, born 1908
The European Union expresses its support for protecting the cultural heritage of the Yazidis, whose main settlement was taken by the Islamic State in 2014. In 2024, the European Union hosts a summit discussing potential policies to combat hate speech and discrimination against minorities, including the Yazidis.
