July 3
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July 3 is the 184th day of the year (185th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 181 days remaining until the end of the year.
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Events [change]
- 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 is 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).
- 1953 – Austrian Hermann Buhl climbs the Himalayan peak Nanga Parbat, at an elevation of 8,125 metres.
- 1962 – Jackie Robinson becomes the first African American player to be inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame.
- 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.
- 1996 – The Stone of Scone is returned to Scotland.
- 2001 – A Vladivostokavia Tupolev TU-154 jetliner crashes on approach to landing at Irkutsk, Russia killing 145 people.
- 2004 – Official opening of Bangkok's subway system.
- 2004 – At Wimbledon, Maria Sharapova wins her first singles' tennis title.
- 2005 – Same-sex marriage is legalised in Spain.
- 2011 – Novak Djokovic wins his first Wimbledon singles' title, defeating Rafael Nadal in a four-set match.
Births [change]
- 1423 – King Louis XI of France (d. 1483)
- 1442 – Emperor Tsuchimikado of Japan (d. 1500)
- 1728 – Robert Adam, Scottish architect (d. 1792)
- 1738 – John Singleton Copley, American painter (d. 1815)
- 1746 – Sophia Magdalena of Denmark, Queen Consort of Sweden (d. 1813)
- 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)
- 1903 – Ace Bailey, Canadian ice hockey player (d. 1992)
- 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)
- 1922 – Guillaume Cornelis van Beverloo, Dutch artist (d. 2010)
- 1924 – S. R. Nathan, 6th President of Singapore
- 1927 – Ken Russell, English director (d. 2011)
- 1928 – Günter Bruno Fuchs, writer (d. 1977)
- 1930 – Carlos Kleiber, Austrian conductor (d. 2004)
- 1934 – Manfred Bieler, writer
- 1935 – Harrison Schmitt, American astronaut
- 1937 – Tom Stoppard, Czech-born playwright
- 1939 – Brigitte Fassbaender, German mezzo-soprano
- 1940 – Jerzy Buzek, Polish politician, former Prime Minister of Poland
- 1940 – César Tovar, Venezuelan baseball player (d. 1994)
- 1945 – Michael Martin, former Speaker of the House of Commons
- 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
- 1951 – Jean-Claude Duvalier (Baby Doc), Haitian politician
- 1956 – Montel Williams, American talk show host
- 1957 – Laura Branigan, American singer (d. 2004)
- 1961 – Pedro Romeiras, Portuguese principal ballet dancer
- 1962 – Tom Cruise, American actor
- 1963 – Tracey Emin, English artist
- 1964 – Joanne Harris, English author
- 1964 – Yeardley Smith, American actress
- 1966 – Moises Alou, American Major League Baseball player
- 1969 – Kevin Hearn, keyboardist (Barenaked Ladies)
- 1970 – Teemu Selänne, Finnish hockey player
- 1971 – Julian Assange, Australian internet activist, founder of the WikiLeaks website
- 1973 – Olafur Stefansson, Icelandic handball player
- 1976 – Andrea Barber, American actress
- 1976 – Wade Belak, Canadian ice hockey player (d. 2011)
- 1983 – Steph Jones, American singer and model
- 1986 – Oscar Ustari, Argentine footballer
- 1987 – Sebastian Vettel, German racing driver
- 1988 – Winston Reid, New Zealand footballer
- 1992 – Nathalia Ramos, Spanish actress and singer
Deaths [change]
- 1642 – Maria de'Medici, Queen of Henry IV of France (b. 1573)
- 1778 – Anna Maria Mozart, mother of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (b. 1720)
- 1904 – Theodor Herzl, Austrian Zionist (b. 1860)
- 1914 – Joseph Chamberlain, British politician (b. 1836)
- 1918 – Sultan Mehmed V of the Ottoman Empire (b. 1844)
- 1933 – Hipólito Yrigoyen, President of Argentina (b. 1852)
- 1935 – André Citroën, French automobile pioneer (b. 1878)
- 1969 – Brian Jones, musician (the Rolling Stones) (b. 1942)
- 1971 – Jim Morrison, singer (The Doors) (b. 1943)
- 1979 – Louis Durey, French composer (b. 1888)
- 1986 – Rudy Vallee, singer (b. 1901)
- 1989 – Jim Backus, actor (b. 1913)
- 1993 – Don Drysdale, American baseball player (b. 1936)
- 1993 – Joe DeRita, American actor and comedian (b. 1909)
- 1995 – Pancho Gonzales, American tennis player (b. 1928)
- 1998 – Danielle Bunten Berry, software developer (b. 1949)
- 1999 – Mark Sandman, musician (Morphine (band)) (b. 1952) (heart attack)
- 2000 – Kemal Sunal, Turkish actor (b. 1944)
- 2001 – Mordecai Richler, Canadian author (b. 1931)
- 2003 – Gaetano Alibrandi, papal diplomat (b. 1914)
- 2004 – Andrian Nikolayev, Soviet cosmonaut (b. 1929)
- 2009 – Jorge Enrique Adoum, Ecuadorean writer (b. 1926)
- 2010 – Abu Daoud, Palestinian military commander (b. 1937)
- 2010 – Herbert Erhardt, German footballer (b. 1930)
- 2011 – Anna Massey, British actress (b. 1937)
Holidays and observances [change]
- Emancipation Day (United States Virgin Islands)
- Independence Day (Belarus)
