Historical Events on August 3 (Part 2)

2012 American super-swimmer Michael Phelps wins the 100m butterfly in London to take his all-time Olympic gold medal tally to a record 17

2012 American Missy Franklin swims a world record 2:04.06 to win the 200m backstroke gold medal at the London Olympics
2013 9 children are killed by a suicide bombing in Jalalabad, Afghanistan
2013 80 people are killed in a wave of insurgency across Iraq
2013 Super Rugby Final, Waikato Stadium, Hamilton: Chiefs successfully defend title with a 27-22 over ACT Brumbies
2014 The Israeli Defence Force remove much of its ground forces from the Gaza Strip following the destruction of 32 tunnels built by Hamas and other militants
2014 At least 13 Palestinians reported killed in ongoing air raids and tank shelling by Israel

2015 US President Obama unveils his Clean Power Plan to cut greenhouse gases

2015 Chilean-born author Isabel Allende receives the US Presidential Medal of Freedom from Barack Obama

2017 Iranian President Hassan Rouhani is elected for his second term as President

2017 Brazilian soccer forward Neymar transfers from FC Barcelona to Paris Saint-Germain for a world-record transfer fee of €222 on a 5-year deal

2017 Massachusetts woman Michelle Carter sentenced to 2 1/2 years for urging her boyfriend to commit suicide
2017 Rapper Kidd Creole arrested and charged for stabbing to death a homeless man in New York City

2017 Camila Cabello releases her single "Havana" (biggest song worldwide 2018, 19 million copies sold)

2019 Suspected domestic terrorist shoots and kills 22 and injures 24 at a Walmart store in El Paso, Texas
2020 Spain's former King Juan Carlos announces he will go into exile abroad amid his implication in a corruption inquiry
2020 Number of Iranian COVID-19 deaths triple that of government tally, showing 42,000 have died instead of 14,405, according to BBC Persian Service investigation [1]
2020 Hurricane Isaias makes landfall in the US as a Category 1 hurricane near Ocean Isle Beach, North Carolina

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