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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.
Events
300-1899
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.
1608 - Quebec City founded by Samuel de Champlain.
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.
1900-1999
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.
2000-2099
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
1400-1899
1423 - King Louis XI of France (d. 1483)
1728 - Robert Adam, architect (d. 1792)
1854 - Leos Janacek, Czech composer (d. 1928)
1870 - Richard Bedford Bennett, eleventh Prime Minister of Canada (d. 1947)
1875 - Ferdinand Sauerbruch, surgeon (d. 1951)
1883 - Franz Kafka, writer (d. 1924)
1893 - Mississippi John Hurt (d. 1966)
1900-1999
1906 - George Sanders, actor (d. 1972)
1908 - M. F. K. Fisher, writer (d. 1992)
1909 - Stavros Spiros Niarchos, ship owner (d. 1996)
1913 - Dorothy Kilgallen, newspaper columnist, early television personality (d. 1965)
1927 - Ken Russell, director
1928 - Günter Bruno Fuchs, writer (d. 1977)
1934 - Manfred Bieler, writer
1935 - Harrison Schmitt, astronaut
1937 - Tom Stoppard, playwright
1940 - César Tovar, baseball player (d. 1994)
1946 - Leszek Miller, Prime Minister of Poland
1947 - Dave Barry, writer
1947 - Betty Buckley, actress
1949 - Jan Smithers, actress
1951 - Richard Hadlee, New Zealand cricketer
1957 - Laura Branigan, singer (d. 2004)
1962 - Tom Cruise, actor
1964 - Joanne Harris, author
1964 - Yeardley Smith, actress
1966 - Moises Alou, Major League Baseball player
1969 - Kevin Hearn, keyboardist for Barenaked Ladies
1970 - Teemu Selänne, NHL hockey player
1976 - Andrea Barber, actress (Full House)
Deaths
1900-1999
1904 - Theodor Herzl, founder of the modern political zionism.
1914 - Joseph Chamberlain, British politician
1918 - Sultan Mehmed V of the Ottoman Empire
1933 - Hipólito Yrigoyen, President of Argentina (1916-1922, 1928-1930).
1935 - André Citroën, 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
2000-2099
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 nº3 of USSR, Vostok 3
Holidays and observances
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