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<p><b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/August_3" title="August 3">August 3</a></b>
</p><ul><li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1057" title="1057">1057</a><b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pope_Stephen_IX" title="Pope Stephen IX">Pope Stephen IX</a></b> was crowned as pope.</li>
<li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1929" title="1929">1929</a><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jiddu_Krishnamurti" title="Jiddu Krishnamurti">Jiddu Krishnamurti</a>, believed by some <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theosophy" title="Theosophy">Theosophists</a> to be a likely candidate for the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Messianism" title="Messianism">messianic</a> "<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maitreya_(Theosophy)" title="Maitreya (Theosophy)">World Teacher</a>", dissolved the <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Order_of_the_Star_in_the_East" title="Order of the Star in the East">Order of the Star</a></b>, the organisation established to support him.</li>
<li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1940" title="1940">1940</a><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_War_II" title="World War II">World War II</a>: Italian forces <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Italian_invasion_of_British_Somaliland" title="Italian invasion of British Somaliland">began a conquest</a></b> of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Somaliland" title="British Somaliland">British Somaliland</a>, capturing the region in 16 days.</li>
<li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1977" title="1977">1977</a><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tandy_Corporation" title="Tandy Corporation">Tandy Corporation</a> announced the <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TRS-80" title="TRS-80">TRS-80</a></b>, one of the world's first mass-produced <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Personal_computer" title="Personal computer">personal computers</a>.</li>
<li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2005" title="2005">2005</a> – Mauritanian president <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maaouya_Ould_Sid%27Ahmed_Taya" title="Maaouya Ould Sid'Ahmed Taya">Maaouya Ould Sid'Ahmed Taya</a> was overthrown in <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2005_Mauritanian_coup_d%27%C3%A9tat" title="2005 Mauritanian coup d'état">a military coup</a></b> while he attended the funeral of King <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fahd_of_Saudi_Arabia" title="Fahd of Saudi Arabia">Fahd of Saudi Arabia</a>.</li></ul>
<p><b>Births and Deaths: </b><b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Empress_Dowager_Cao_(Li_Cunxu%27s_mother)" title="Empress Dowager Cao (Li Cunxu's mother)">Empress Dowager Cao</a></b>  (<abbr title="died">d.</abbr> 925); <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfred_Deakin" title="Alfred Deakin">Alfred Deakin</a></b>  (<abbr title="born">b.</abbr> 1856); <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hilda_Rix_Nicholas" title="Hilda Rix Nicholas">Hilda Rix Nicholas</a></b>  (<abbr title="died">d.</abbr> 1961); <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Esther_Earl" title="Esther Earl">Esther Earl</a></b>  (<abbr title="born">b.</abbr> 1994)</p>