july 3

July 3rd is the 184th day of the year (185th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 181 days remaining.

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 Kniggratz, 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.

1904 - Theodor Herzl, founder of the modern political zionism.
1914 - Joseph Chamberlain, British politician
1918 - Sultan Mehmed V of the Ottoman Empire
1933 - Hiplito Yrigoyen, President of Argentina (1916-1922, 1928-1930).
1935 - Andr Citron, automobile pioneer
1969 - Brian Jones, rock and roll musician, member of the Rolling Stones found dead in his swimming pool. He had probably died the previous night.
1971 - Jim Morrison, singer - The Doors
1979 - Louis Durey, French composer
1986 - Rudy Vallee, singer
1989 - Jim Backus, actor
1993 - Joe DeRita (a.k.a. "Curly Joe"), actor, comedian; member of the Three Stooges
1995 - Pancho Gonzales, tennis professional
1998 - Danielle Bunten Berry, a.k.a. Dan Bunten, software developer
1999 - Mark Sandman, musician and lead singer of Morphine (band) collapsed and died of a heart attack at a music festival outside Rome.

2000 - Kemal Sunal, Turkish actor
2001 - Mordecai Richler, author
2003 - Gaetano Alibrandi, papal diplomat and Apostolic Nuncio to the Republic of Ireland
2004 - Andrian Nikolayev, Soviet cosmonaut n3 of USSR, Vostok 3

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