July 3
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July 3rd is the 184th day of the year (185th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 181 days remaining.
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Events
- 323 - Battle of Adrianople Constantine the Great defeats Licinius, who flees to Byzantium
- 533 - Battle of the Tenth Milestone: Byzantine general Belisarius defeats the Vandals near Carthage.
- 987 - Hugh Capet was crowned King of France, the first of the Capetian dynasty which ruled France till the French Revolution in 1792.
- 1250 - Louis IX of France is captured by Baibars' Mamluk army at the Battle of Fariskur while he is in Egypt conducting the Seventh Crusade; he later has to ransom himself.
- 1608 - Quebec City founded by Samuel de Champlain.
- 1754 - George Washington surrenders Fort Necessity to French forces during the French and Indian War. He is allowed to retain his colors and march out of the fort with full honors the following day.
- 1844 - The last pair of Great Auks is killed.
- 1863 - The final and bloodiest day of the battle of Gettysburg, and the fall of the besieged Vicksburg to U.S. Grant.
- 1866 - Austro-Prussian War decided at Battle of Königgratz, resulting in Prussia taking over as the prominent German nation from Austria.
- 1890 - Idaho is admitted as the 43rd U.S. state.
- 1938 - World record for a steam railway locomotive is set in England, by the "Mallard", which reaches a speed of 203 km/h (126 mph).
- 1964 - President Lyndon B. Johnson signs the Civil Rights Act of 1964, which prohibits segregation in public places.
- 1970 - A British chartered jetliner crashes near Barcelona, Spain killing 112
- 1976 - Israeli commandos rescue 105 hostages at Entebbe Airport, Uganda.
- 1988 - United States Navy warship USS Vincennes shoots down Iran Air Flight 655 over the Persian Gulf, killing all 290 people aboard.
- 2001 - A Vladivostokavia Tupolev TU-154 jetliner crashes on approach to landing at Irkutsk, Russia killing 145
- 2004 - Official opening of Bangkok's subway system.
Births
- 1423 - King Louis XI of France (d. 1483)
- 1728 - Robert Adam, Scottish architect (d. 1792)
- 1738 - John Singleton Copley, American painter (d. 1815)
- 1854 - Leos Janacek, Czech composer (d. 1928)
- 1870 - Richard Bedford Bennett, eleventh Prime Minister of Canada (d. 1947)
- 1875 - Ferdinand Sauerbruch, German surgeon (d. 1951)
- 1883 - Franz Kafka, Austrian writer (d. 1924)
- 1893 - Mississippi John Hurt, American musician (d. 1966)
- 1906 - George Sanders, Russian-born actor (d. 1972)
- 1908 - M. F. K. Fisher, American writer (d. 1992)
- 1909 - Stavros Spiros Niarchos, ship owner (d. 1996)
- 1913 - Dorothy Kilgallen, American newspaper columnist, and television personality (d. 1965)
- 1927 - Ken Russell, English director
- 1928 - Günter Bruno Fuchs, writer (d. 1977)
- 1934 - Manfred Bieler, writer
- 1935 - Harrison Schmitt, astronaut
- 1937 - Tom Stoppard, Czech-born playwright
- 1940 - César Tovar, Venezuelan baseball player (d. 1994)
- 1946 - Leszek Miller, Prime Minister of Poland
- 1947 - Dave Barry, American writer
- 1947 - Betty Buckley, American actress
- 1949 - Jan Smithers, American actress
- 1951 - Richard Hadlee, New Zealand cricketer
- 1953 - Linda Greenlese, American nurse
- 1957 - Laura Branigan, American singer (d. 2004)
- 1962 - Tom Cruise, American actor
- 1964 - Joanne Harris, English author
- 1964 - Yeardley Smith, American actress
- 1966 - Moises Alou, Major League Baseball player
- 1969 - Kevin Hearn, keyboardist (Barenaked Ladies)
- 1970 - Teemu Selänne, Finnish hockey player
- 1976 - Andrea Barber, American actress
Deaths
- 1904 - Theodor Herzl, Austrian Zionist (b. 1860)
- 1914 - Joseph Chamberlain, British politician
- 1918 - Sultan Mehmed V of the Ottoman Empire
- 1933 - Hipólito Yrigoyen, President of Argentina
- 1935 - André Citroën, French automobile pioneer
- 1969 - Brian Jones, musician (the Rolling Stones)
- 1971 - Jim Morrison, singer (The Doors)
- 1979 - Louis Durey, French composer
- 1986 - Rudy Vallee, singer
- 1989 - Jim Backus, actor
- 1993 - Joe DeRita, American actor and comedian
- 1995 - Pancho Gonzales, tennis player
- 1998 - Danielle Bunten Berry, software developer
- 1999 - Mark Sandman, musician (Morphine (band)) (heart attack)
- 2000 - Kemal Sunal, Turkish actor
- 2001 - Mordecai Richler, author
- 2003 - Gaetano Alibrandi, papal diplomat
- 2004 - Andrian Nikolayev, cosmonaut
Holidays and observances
External links
- BBC: On This Day (http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/july/3)
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