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August 3. August 3 is the 215th day of the year (216th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar; 150 days remain until the end of the year.
Selected anniversaries/August. 30 BC – War of Actium: Octavian defeated the forces of Mark Antony and Cleopatra at Alexandria, establishing Roman Egypt. 902 – Arab–Byzantine wars: Led by Ibrahim II of Ifriqiya, Aghlabid forces captured the Byzantine stronghold of Taormina, concluding the Muslim conquest of Sicily.
August 13 is the 225th day ... 1967 – Two young women became the first fatal victims of grizzly bear attacks in the 57-year history of Montana's Glacier National ...
August 18 is the 230th day of the year (231st in leap years) ... At that point, it is the largest aerial engagement in history with heavy losses sustained on both sides.
August 11 is the 223rd day of the year (224th in leap years) ... marking its first major operation outside Europe in its 54-year-history. 2003 ...
August 9. August 9 is the 221st day of the year (222nd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar; 144 days remain until the end of the year.
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2004 - Death of Philip Abelson American physicist, Nobel Prize Laureate (b. 1913) August 2: 1788 - Birth of Leopold Gmelin, German chemist (d. 1853) 1790 - The first US Census is conducted. 1823 - Death of Lazare Carnot, French general, politician, and mathematician (b. 1753) 1932 - The positron ( antiparticle of the electron) is discovered by ...