August 3rd (1979) was a Friday. It's the 215th day of the year (216th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 150 days left to the end of the year.
Famous Birthdays on August 3 in 1979
» Evangeline Lilly, Canadian model and actress
August 3rd Famous Deaths for 1979
» Bertil Ohlin, Swedish economist and politician, Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences called Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1899)
» Angelos Terzakis, Greek author and playwright (b. 1907)
August 3rd Holidays in History
» Pidjiguiti Massacre e.g Anniversary of the Killing of Pidjiguiti (Guinea-Bissau)
» Armed Forces Day (Equatorial Guinea)
» Christian Calendar of saints known as Feast Day:
» Gamaliel
» Lydia of Thyatira
» Nicodemus
» Olaf II of Norway (Translation of the relic)
» Saint Stephen or Stephen (Discovery of the relic)
» Waltheof of Melrose
» Saint Joanna Joanna, Mary Mother of James Mary, and Salome (disciple) Salome, myrrh-bearing women (Lutheran Church)
» George Freeman Bragg, W.E.B. DuBois (Episcopal Church (USA))
» August 3 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
» Emancipation Day (Saint Vincent and the Grenadines)
» Public holidays in Venezuela e.g Flag Day (Venezuela)