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3 August 2023 at a glance
- Day of the week
- 3 August 2023 was a Thursday.
- Billboard Hot 100 No. 1
- The Billboard Hot 100 No. 1 was “Seven” by Jung Kook featuring Latto.
- Top Film of 2023
- The highest-grossing film worldwide released in 2023 was Barbie.
- Star sign
- The star sign for 3 August is Leo.
- Chinese zodiac
- In the Chinese zodiac, 3 August 2023 fell in the Year of the Rabbit.
- Birthstone
- The birthstone for August is Peridot.
- Moon phase
- The moon phase on 3 August 2023 was Waning Gibbous.
On this day: 3 August
- 1997 Sky Tower in downtown Auckland, New Zealand opens after two-and-a-half years of construction, becoming the tallest free-standing structure in the Southern Hemisphere at the time.
- 2004 The pedestal of the Statue of Liberty reopens after being closed since the September 11 attacks.
- 2005 President of Mauritania Maaouya Ould Sid'Ahmed Taya is overthrown in a military coup while attending the funeral of King Fahd in Saudi Arabia.
- 2019 Six hundred protesters, including opposition leader Lyubov Sobol, are arrested in an election protest in Moscow, Russia.
- 2023 Major floods hit parts of Slovenia.
Famous people born on August 3
- Tom Brady, American football player (born 1977)
- Martin Sheen, American actor and producer (born 1940)
- Karlie Kloss, American fashion model (born 1992)
- Martha Stewart, American businesswoman, publisher, and author, founded Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia (born 1941)
Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)
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Events of 2023 in the United States
A selection from Wikipedia's '2023 in the United States'. Not a complete list.
- March 12 – The 95th Academy Awards, hosted by Jimmy Kimmel, are held at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles. Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert's Everything Everywhere All at Once lead the nominations with eleven. The film wins seven of those awards, including Best Picture.
- April 20 – Elon Musk's SpaceX launches its first test flight of Starship. The device explodes shortly after launch.
- July 5 – Meta Platforms launches Threads as a direct competitor to Twitter.
Life in the US in 2023
President
Joe Biden
Gas (per gallon)
$3.53
Loaf of Bread
$2.96
Average House
$412,300
Weekly Wage
$1,108
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