Tuesday, August 3, 2021 is a Tuesday. It is day 215 of 2021 (58.9% through the year), ISO week 31, in Q3.
Calendar Specifications
Tuesday, August 3, 2021 combines practical calendar facts with a wider view of the day: 2019: A mass shooting occurred at a Walmart in El Paso, Texas, killing 23 people and injuring 22 others.. Use it to check the date, plan across time zones, and scan the observances and historical markers attached to August 3.
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Historical Milestones
A mass shooting occurred at a Walmart in El Paso, Texas, killing 23 people and injuring 22 others.
2019 El Paso Walmart shooting →The last vessels involved in Taurus 09, a Royal Navy training deployment covering 20,400 miles (32,800 km), returned to HMNB Devonport, England.
Taurus 09 →Mauritanian president Maaouya Ould Sid'Ahmed Taya was overthrown in a military coup while he attended the funeral of King Fahd of Saudi Arabia.
Maaouya Ould Sid'Ahmed Taya →The Sky Tower, then the tallest free-standing structure in the Southern Hemisphere at 328 m (1,076 ft), opened in Auckland, New Zealand.
Sky Tower (Auckland) →A privately chartered Boeing 707 (aircraft involved pictured) struck a mountain peak and crashed near Agadir, Morocco, killing 188.
Boeing 707 →Fighting Dinosaurs, a fossil specimen featuring a Velociraptor and a Protoceratops in combat, was unearthed in the Djadochta Formation of Mongolia.
Fighting Dinosaurs →World War II: Italian forces began a conquest of British Somaliland, capturing the region in 16 days.
World War II →African-American athlete Jesse Owens won the first of his four gold medals at the Berlin Olympics, dashing Nazi leaders' hopes of Aryan domination at the games.
African Americans →Jiddu Krishnamurti (pictured), believed by some Theosophists to be a likely candidate for the messianic "World Teacher", dissolved the Order of the Star, the organisation established to support him.
Jiddu Krishnamurti →An agricultural workers' strike in Wheatland degenerated into a riot, becoming one of the first major farm-labor confrontations in California.
Wheatland, California →Macedonian rebels in Kruševo established a republic, which existed for ten days before Ottoman forces destroyed the town.
Internal Macedonian Revolutionary Organization →Indian Rebellion: An eight-day siege of a fortified outbuilding in Arrah occupied by 68 defenders against more than 10,000 men ended when a relief party dispersed the besiegers.
Indian Rebellion of 1857 →Calculate business days and elapsed calendar time between this date and any other.
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Questions & Answers
Tuesday, August 3, 2021 falls on a Tuesday.
1,866 days ago (5 years, 1 month, 9 days ago). It is day 215 of 2021 with 150 days remaining in the year.
In Roman numerals, Tuesday, August 3, 2021 is written as III.VIII.MMXXI (Day.Month.Year format).
The moon phase for this date is Waning Crescent (approx. 25% illuminated). The astrological sun sign is Leo.