3rd
July, on this day
324 Battle
of Adrianople Constantine I defeats Licinius, who flees to Byzantium
683 St Leo II ends his reign as Catholic Pope
987 Hugh
Capet is 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 French explorer Samuel
Champlain founds the city of Quebec
1754 George Washington surrenders to French, Ft Necessity (7 Years'
War)
1767 Pitcairn Island is discovered by Midshipman Robert Pitcairn on
an expeditionary voyage commanded by Philip
Carteret.
1767 Norway's oldest newspaper still in print, Adresseavisen,
is founded (first edition published this date).
1775 During the American Revolution, General George Washington takes
command of the Continental Army at Cambridge, Massachusetts
1778 British forces massacre 360 men, women and children in Wyoming,
Pa
1778 Prussia declares war on Austria.
1806 Michael Keens exhibits 1st cultivated strawberry
1814 Americans capture Fort Erie, Canada
1816 French frigate "Medusa" runs aground off Cap Blanc.
Gross
incompetence kills 150 in calm seas
1819 1st savings bank in US (Bank of Savings in NYC) opens its doors
1839 1st state normal school in US opens, Lexington, Mass, with 3
students
1841 John
Couch Adams decides to determine the position of an unknown
planet by irregularities it causes in the motion of Uranus
1844 The last pair of Great
Auks is killed.
1848 Slaves freed in Danish West Indies (now US Virgin Islands)
1849 The French entered Rome in order to restore Pope
Pius IX to power. This would prove a major obstacle to Italian
unification.
1861 Pony
Express arrives in SF with overland letters from NY
1863 The end of the battle
of Gettysburg with defeat for the Confederate Army by the Union
Army commanded by General Meade
1866 Austro-Prussian War is decided at the Battle
of Königgratz, resulting in Prussia taking over as the prominent
German nation from Austria.
1884 Dow Jones published its 1st stock average.
1886 Karl Benz officially unveils the Benz
Patent Motorwagen - the first purpose-built automobile.
1886 The New
York Tribune becomes the first newspaper to use a linotype machine,
eliminating typesetting by hand.
1890 Idaho admitted as 43rd US state
1898 Captain Joshua
Slocum arrives at Rhode Island, USA aboard his 36ft sloop 'Spray'
to become the first man to complete a round the world solo voyage
- which began April 24, 1895
1898 US Navy defeats Spanish fleet in Santiago harbor, Cuba
1905 At least 6,000 people are killed by Russian troops in the town
of Odessa to restore order during a general strike
1913 Common tern banded in Maine; found dead in 1919 in Africa (1st
bird
known to have crossed the Atlantic
1915 US military forces occupy Haiti, remain until 1934
1916 1st of 3 fatal shark attacks occurred near NJ shore (4 die)
1920 First RAF air display takes place at Hendon near London
1928 A policeman's helmet and a bunch of roses are among the pictures
shown on John
Logie Baird's first colour television test transmission at Baird
Studios, in London
1934 FDIC
pays off 1st insured depositors, Fon du Lac Bank, East Peoria IL
1938 World speed record for a steam railway locomotive is set in England,
by the Mallard,
which reaches a speed of 126 mph.(203 km/h)
1939 Ernst Heinkel demonstrates 800-kph rocket plane to Hitler
1940 British warships destroy the French fleet to prevent their ships
falling into German hands. More than 1,000 French sailors are killed
1944 Russian troops liberate the Belarus capital, Minsk
from the Germans
1947 252,288 people (record) pass through Grand
Central Station, NYC
1950 1st time US and North Korean forces clash in the Korean War
1954 End of food rationing in Britain - almost 9 years since the end
of World War II. Smithfield Meat Market in London opens at midnight
instead of 6am to cope with the demand for beef
1958 "The Andy
Williams Show" premiers on ABC (later on CBS and NBC)
1962 Algerian
Revolution against French ends (Algeria gains ind on 7/5)
1966 Race riots in Omaha, Nebraska
1967 "News at 10" premieres on British TV
1969 78,000 attend Newport Jazz Festival, Newport, RI
1969 Rolling Stones' guitarist Brian
Jones is found drowned in his swimming pool
1969 The biggest explosion in the history of rocketry occurs when
the Soviet N1 rocket explodes and subsequently destroys its launchpad.
1970 A British Dan-Air De Havilland Comet chartered jetliner crashes
into mountains north of Barcelona, Spain killing 113 people.
1974 Soyuz 14 carries 2 cosmonauts to space station Salyut 3
1974 Don
Revie is appointed manager of the England football team
1976 Israel
launches rescue of 103 Air France crew and passengers being held at
Entebbe Airport in Uganda by pro-Palestinian hijackers
1979 US President Jimmy Carter signs the first directive for secret
aid to the opponents of the pro-Soviet regime in Kabul.
1982 Martina Navratilova defeats Chris Evert Lloyd at Wimbeldon
1983 Calvin
Smith of US becomes fastest man alive (9.93 s for 100 m)
1983 John
McEnroe regains men's singles title at Wimbledon
1984 Dolphin rocket launched off San Clemente Island
1986 President Reagan presided over relighting of renovated Statue
of Liberty
1987 2 men became 1st hot-air balloon travelers to cross Atlantic
1987 German war criminal Klaus
Barbie - the 'butcher of Lyon'- is jailed for life for crimes
against humanity
1988 American warship USS
Vincennes, patrolling in the Gulf during the Iran-Iraq war, mistakes
an Iranian civil airliner for a bomber and shoots it down - killing
all 290 people on board
1989 Supreme Court rules states do not have to provide funds for abortions
1989 The movie "Batman," set record of quickest $100 million
(10 days)
1994 The deadliest day in Texas traffic history, according to the
Texas Department of Public Safety. Forty six people were killed in
crashes.
1996 British Prime Minister John
Major announces that, after 700 years, the Stone
of Scone - the ancient symbol of Scottish kings - is to be removed
from Westminster Abbey in London and returned to Scotland
2004 Official opening of Bangkok's
metro system.
2005 The national law legalising same-sex marriage takes effect in
Spain.
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Birthdates which
occurred on 3rd July :
1423 Louis XI king
of France (1461-83)
1567 Samuel de Champlain explorer (Lake Champlain)
1731 Samuel Huntington (Gov-Ct), Continental Congress pres
1738 John Singleton Copley Mass, finest colonial American artist
1854 Leos Jan cek Hukvaldy Moravia Czech, composer (Foster Suite)
1861 Peter Jackson heavyweight, boxing hall of famer
1870 Richard B Bennett (C) 11th Canadian PM (1930-35)
1874 Sir Apirana Turupa Ngata Kawaka NZ, Maori political/cultural
leader
1883 Alfred Korzybski Poland, scientist (Science & Sanity)
1883 Franz Kafka Czech, author (Metamorphosis, Trial, Amerika)
19-- Brian Fong Oahu Hawaii, actor (Fred Sing-Chase)
19-- Kurtwood Smith New Lisbon Wisc, actor (Renegades)
19-- Stephen Pearcy rock vocalist (Ratt-Round & Round)
1900 John Mason Brown Louisville Ky, critic (Tonight on Broadway)
1906 Francis Steegmuller US, biographer (Cocteau)
1906 George Sanders Russia, actor (All About Eve-Academy Award 1950)
1909 Earl L Butz US Secretary of Agriculture (1971-76); a real Butz
1909 Stavros Niachos Greece (Those Fabulous Greeks)
1913 Dorothy Kilgallen Chic Ill, columnist (What's My Line?)
1920 Louise Allbritton Okla City, actr (Celia-Stage Door, Got a Secret)
1925 Tony Curtis [Bernard Schwartz] Bronx NY, actor (Some Like it
Hot)
1927 Ken Russell England, director (Crimes of Passion)
1930 Carlos Kleiber Berlin Germany, conductor (Bavarian State Orch
1968)
1930 Pete Fountain New Orleans, jazz clarinetist (Lawrence Welk 1957-59)
1935 Harrison H "Jack" Schmitt Santa Rita NM, astronaut
(Apollo 17)
1937 Tom Stoppard playwright (Rosencrantz & Guildenstern-1968
Tony)
1939 Jay Tarses Balt Md, actor/writer (Open All Night, Duck Factory)
1940 Fontella Bass St Louis Mo, vocalist (Rescue Me)
1940 Lance Larson US, 100m freestyle swimmer (Olympic-silver-1960)
1941 Gloria Allred feminist attorney
1943 Geraldo Rivera aka Gerry Rivers, nosey newsman (Geraldo)
1943 Norman E Thagard Marianna Fl, MD/astronaut (STS 7, 51-B, 30,
42)
1945 Iain MacDonald-Smith England, yachtsman (Olympic-gold-1968)
1945 Michael Cole Madison Wisc, actor (Pete-Mod Squad)
1945 Mike Corby guitarist (Babys)
1947 Betty Buckley Big Springs Tx, actress (Abby-8 is Enough, 1776,
Cats)
1948 Paul Berrere rocker (Little Feat-Truck Stop Girl)
1949 Jan Smithers N Hollywood Calif, actress (Bailey-WKRP)
1951 Jean-Claude Duvalier deposed Haitian president-for-life
1951 Richard Hadlee Christchurch, NZ, leading cricket bowler
1952 Alan Autry NFLer (Green Bay Packers)/actor (The Heat of the Night)
1955 Julia Lyndon Buffalo NY, playmate (August, 1977)
1957 Laura Branigan singer (Gloria)
1959 Stoyan Deltchev Bulgaria, horizontal bar gymnist (Olympic-gold-1980)
1961 Liz Stewart SF Calif, playmate (July, 1984)
1961 Vince Clarke England, rocker (Yaz-Situation, Only You)
1962 Tom Cruise Syracuse, actor (Risky Business, Color of Money, Rainman)
1964 Pia Reyes Manila Philipines, playmate (Nov, 1988)
1968 Jeff Phillips Westwood NJ, actor (Hart Jessup-Guiding Light)
1975 Keri Houlihan Penn, actress (Molly-Our House)
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Deaths which occurred
on July 3rd:
1969 Brian Jones of the Rolling Stones drowns to death at 25
1971 Jim Morrison rocker (Doors), dies of heart failure in Paris
1978 James Daly actor (Medical Center), dies at 59
1981 Ross Martin actor (Mr Lucky, Wild Wild West), dies at 61
1986 Rudy Vallee singer (Vagabond Dreams), dies at 84
1988 Gabe Dell actor, dies at 68 of leukemia
1989 Andrei Gromyko Soviet diplomat, dies just short of his 80th birthday
1989 Jim Backus actor (Magoo, Gilligan's Island), dies at 76 of pneumonia
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