World.- In the ephemeris of this August 3, several important ones that marked the history of humanity stand out, for example: in 1492, the flotilla commanded by Christopher Columbus and composed of the three caravels -the “Pinta”, the “Niña” and the “Santa María” – set sail from the port of Palos de la Frontera (Huelva, Spain), hoping to find a new route to India , journey that culminated in the discovery of America.What are the ephemeris of August 3?
1778.- Inauguration of La Scala in Milan, with the opera “Europa Riconosciuta”, by Antonio Salieri.
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1798.- Concludes after two days the battle of the Nile in which the British admiral Nelson forces the remains of the French fleet to surrender.1804.- The German geographer and naturalist Alejandro Humboldt disembarks in Bordeaux after five years of expedition in America.1821.- General San Martín becomes supreme protector of Peru for as long as the circumstances advise.1868.- The province of Buenos Aires replaces the death penalty with that of imprisonment that , at most, it will be 20 years.1900.- Harvey Samuel Firestone founds in Ohio the tire company that bears his name.1914.- World War I: France, Belgium and Great Britain declare war on Germany.1923.- Calvin Coolidge assumes the Presidency of the United States after the death of Warren G. Harding.1927.- The wireless telephone union is inaugurated Berlin-Buenos Aires.1936.- The African-American sprinter Jesse Owen wins in Berlin his first gold medal of the four that he would achieve in the Olympic Games in the middle of Nazi Germany.1940.- World War II: Italian troops begin the conquest of English Somalia.1940.- The USSR formally annexes the Baltic republics of Estonia and Lithuania.1949.- The National Basketball Association (NBA) is officially born, after the union between the Basketball Association of America (BAA) and the National Basketball League (NBL).1952.- The Helsinki Olympic Games are closed , in which Russia participates for the first time after 40 years.1958.- The U.S. nuclear submarine “Nautilus” crosses the North Pole for the first time and crosses the Pacific Ocean to the Atlantic.1961.- Spain joins the OECD.1969.- Bloody riots in Belfast, which lasted 16 days.1973.- The automobile company SEAT manufactures the last ‘600’ after 16 years in the Spanish market.1979.- Military coup d’état in Equatorial Guinea against President Macías , led by its Minister of Defense, Teodoro Obiang Nguema.1984.- First general strike in Argentina against the government of President Raúl Alfonsín.1993.- Apple launches the MessagePad, the first in the series of personal digital assistant (PDA) devices developed by Apple.31994.- The Israeli Parliament approves the agreement reached in Washington on July 25 by which Israel and Jordan ended 46 years of state of war.2001.- The American Citigroup culminates in Mexico the largest banking transaction in Latin America, by closing the purchase of 99.5% of the shares of the Banamex Accival Financial Group (Banacci) for 12,500 million dollars.2005.- A coup d’état in Mauritania overthrows President Maaouya Ould Sid’Ahmed Taya, who was in Saudi Arabia.2005.- The President of the Brazilian Mint, Manoel Severino dos Santos , resigns from his position after being linked to the publicist Marcos Valerio Fernández for illegal financing for his electoral campaigns.2011.- Begins, in an unprecedented event in the Arab world, the trial against the former Egyptian president, Hosni Mubarak, who appears on a stretcher.2015.- The former “strong man” of former Brazilian President Lula da Silva, the former minister José Dirceu , convicted of corruption cases in 2005, returns to prison, for the Petrobras case.2016.- The U.S. aviation regulator authorizes for the first time a private company to launch a mission to the Moon.2019.- A young man kills 22 people and leaves 20 injured in a shooting at a shopping center in El Paso (Texas). Read more: Or surprise! Meme museum opens in Hong Kong with the most viral internet2020.- The king emeritus, Juan Carlos I, announces by letter to his son Fellipe VI who leaves Spain to reside abroad after alleged business dealings and hidden accounts in Switzerland came to light.Who was born on August 3?
1823.- Francisco Asenjo Barbieri, Spanish composer.1872.- Haakon VI, first king of Norway.1903.- Habib Burguiba, Tunisian statesman.1904.- Dolores del Río, Mexican actress.1925.- Alain Touraine, French sociologist and writer.1926.- Tony Bennett, American singer.1940.- Martin Sheen, American actor.1941.- Martha Stewart, American television communication magnate.1950.- Ernesto Samper, Colombian politician.1986.- Carlota Casiraghi, firstborn of Princess Carolina de Mó naco.Who died on August 3?
1924.- Joseph Conrad, British writer.1954.- Gabrielle Claudine Colette, French writer.1977.- Makarios III, Orthodox archbishop and Cypriot politician.1986.- Beryl Markham, first female pilot who flew over the Atlantic Ocean.1995.- Ida Lupino, British actress.1998.- Alfred Schnittke, Russian composer.2008.- Alexander Solzhenitsin, Russian writer and Nobel Prize in Literature.2011.- Bubba Smith, actor and former star of the National Football League.2017.- Ángel Nieto , former Spanish motorcycle racer.2020.- John Hume, Northern Irish politician.
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