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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.

To report an error when this appears on the Main Page, see Main Page errors. Please remember that this list defers to the supporting articles, so it is best to achieve consensus and make any necessary changes there first.

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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. needs more footnotes, refimprove sections
1949 – The Basketball Association of America agreed to merge with the National Basketball League to form the National Basketball Association. refimprove section
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. Too much uncited
1959Portuguese state police opened fire on striking dock workers in Bissau, Portuguese Guinea, killing at least 25 people in a step that led to the Guinea-Bissau War of Independence four years later. unreliable sources
1960Niger officially gained independence from France as part of the decolonization of the French Community. refimprove section
1961 – Canada's New Democratic Party was founded with the merger of the Co-operative Commonwealth Federation and organised labour. refimprove section
2005 – Former mayor of Tehran Mahmoud Ahmadinejad took office as the sixth president of Iran. 12 cn's
Thomas Francis Meagher |b|1823| Too much uncited
George Inness |d|1894| Deathdate not cited
Rudolf Wolters |b|1903| source does not state birthdate
Dolores del Río |b|1904| Too much uncited
Nadia Ali |b|1980| date referenced only to discogs, which is unreliable source

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August 3

Jesse Owens in the long jump at the 1936 Olympics
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