August 3

Events

• 435: Byzantine emperor Theodosius II issues edict sending Patriarch Nestorius into exile in Egypt over his heretical beliefs.
• 1947: Maria Callas makes her first impressive appearance in the arena of Verona with "La Gioconda" by Ponchielli.
• 1949: The Battle of Grammos-Vitsi commences during the Greek Civil War.
• 1953: Communist Nikos Ploumbidis is sentenced to death for espionage.
• 1977: Archbishop Makarios III dies and is succeeded to the Presidency of Cyprus by Spyros Kyprianou
• 1984: The Revolutionary Organization 17 November fail in their attempt to assassinate US officer Robert Judd near Elliniko Air Base.
• 1989: A Shorts 330 of the Olympic Airways (now Olympic Airlines) crashes near Samos Airport; 31 passengers die.
• 2015: The Athens Stock Exchange ends its first session in five weeks with losses of 16.23%.

Sports

• 1996: Greece beats Brazil 91-72 during the Atlanta Olympic Games Basketball Tournament. Panagiotis Yiannakis, who participates for the last time with the national basketball team, scores 3 points and reaches 5291 in 351 games, being first in front of Panagiotis Fassoulas (2384 / 243) and Fanis Christodoulou (2255 / 219) in caps.
• 1996: Niki Bakogianni wins the silver medal in high jump with 2.03m at the Atlanta Olympics. Stefka Konstantinova of Bulgaria takes first place with 2.05m.
• 2000: The Mistral World Juniors Championships close at Korthio, Andros. Byron Kokkalakis wins 2 gold medals. Alexis Prappas takes third place. In the veterans' category (over 40 years old) Thanos Sakkas wins the gold medal.
• 2002: Greece wins its first medal in a European Aquatics Championships. The 4x200m free style team (Thanassis Economou, Nikos Xylouris, Spyros Gianniotis and Giannis Kokkodis) takes third place.
• 2006: Yiannis Drymonakos wins silver medal in the men's 200-meter butterfly at the European Swimming Championships in Budapest.
• 2006 Aris Grigoriadis captures silver medal in the men's 50-meter backstroke at the European Swimming Championships in Budapest.
• 2008: Greece defeat Lithuania 57-50 to win the men's under-18 European basketball championship.

Births

• 1937: Alekos Sofianidis, footballer
• 1938: Vasilis Daniil, football coach
• 1973: Nikos Dabizas, footballer

Deaths

• 1972: Yiannis Papaioannou, rebetika songwriter
• 1973: Elias Venezis, writer
• 1975: Andreas Empirikos, writer
• 1977: Archbishop Makarios III of Cyprus
• 1979: Angelos Terzakis, author
• 1994: Nikos Hadjikyriakos Gikas, painter
• 2009: Nikolaos Makarezos, member of the military junta that governed Greece (1967 - 1973)
• 2015: Nikos Tsachiridis, actor
• 2024: Dimitris Theofanis, footballer