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August 3 is the 215th day of the year (216th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar; ... 1958 – The world's first nuclear submarine, the USS Nautilus, ...
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 18 is the 230th day of the year (231st in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar; 135 days remain until the end of the year.
August 4. August 4 is the 216th day of the year (217th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar; 149 days remain until the end of the year.
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 ...
August 23 is the 235th day of the year ... 1990 – West and East Germany announce that they will reunite on October 3. 1991 – The World Wide Web is opened to the ...
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August 10 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics) Declaration of Independence of Quito, proclaimed independence from Spain on August 10, 1809. Independence was finally attained on May 24, 1822, at the Battle of Pichincha. ( Ecuador) International Biodiesel Day.