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July 3
July 2 - July 4Events
Births - Deaths324 - Battle of Adrianople Constantine I defeats Licinius, who flees to Byzantium
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 - French and Indian War: George Washington surrenders Fort Necessity to French forces.
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 - American Revolutionary War: George Washington takes command of the Continental Army at Cambridge, Massachusetts.
1778 - American Revolutionary War: British forces massacre 360 men, women & children in the Wyoming Valley massacre.
1778 - Prussia declares war on Austria.
1819 - The first savings bank in the United States (The Bank of Savings in New York City) opens.
1839 - The first state normal school in the United States, the forerunner to today's Framingham State College, opens in Lexington, Massachusetts with 3 students.
1844 - The last pair of Great Auks is killed.
1848 - Slaves are freed in the Danish West Indies (now U.S. 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.
1852 - Congress establishes the United States's 2nd mint in San Francisco, California.
1863 - U.S. Civil War: The final day of the Battle of Gettysburg.
1866 - Austro-Prussian War is decided at the Battle of K?niggratz, resulting in Prussia taking over as the prominent German nation from Austria.
1884 - Dow Jones published its 1st stock average.
1886 - The New York Tribune becomes the first newspaper to use a linotype machine, eliminating typesetting by hand.
1890 - Idaho is admitted as the 43rd U.S. state.
1898 - Spanish fleet, led by Pascual Cervera y Topete, destroyed by the U.S. Army in Santiago, Cuba during the Spanish-American War.
1928 - First color television broadcast in London.
1938 - World speed record for a steam railway locomotive is set in England, by the Mallard, which reaches a speed of 203 km/h (126 mph).
1944 - World War II: Minsk was liberated from Nazi control by Soviet troops during Operation Bagration.
1952 - Puerto Rico's Constitution is approved by the Congress of the United States.
1962 - The Algerian War of Independence against the French ends.
1970 - A British Dan-Air De Havilland Comet chartered jetliner crashes into mountains north of Barcelona, Spain killing 112 people.
1976 - Israeli commandos rescue 105 hostages at Entebbe Airport, Uganda during Operation Yonatan.
1977 - The Senegalese Republican Movement (MRS) is founded.
1979 - US President Jimmy Carter signs the first directive for secret aid to the opponents of the pro-Soviet regime in Kabul.
1985 - Back to the Future debuts in theaters all over the U.S.
1986 - US President Ronald Reagan presides over the relighting of the renovated Statue of Liberty.
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 people.
2004 - Official opening of Bangkok's subway system.
2005 - The national law legalizing same-sex marriage takes effect in Spain.
2006 - Asteroid labeled as 2004 XP14 flies by Earth's atmosphere.
Births
Events - Deaths1423 - King Louis XI of France (d. 1483)
1442 - Emperor Go-Tsuchimikado of Japan (d. 1500)
1530 - Claude Fauchet, French historian (d. 1601)
1567 - Samuel de Champlain, French explorer (d. 1635)
1676 - Leopold I, Prince of Anhalt-Dessau, Prussian field marshal (d. 1747)
1683 - Edward Young, English poet (d. 1765)
1685 - Sir Robert Rich, 4th Baronet, British cavalry officer (d. 1768)
1728 - Robert Adam, Scottish architect (d. 1792)
1738 - John Singleton Copley, American painter (d. 1815)
1793 - John Clare, British poet (d. 1864)
1854 - Leo? Jan?cek, Czech composer (d. 1928)
1870 - Richard Bedford Bennett, eleventh Prime Minister of Canada (d. 1947)
1875 - Ferdinand Sauerbruch, German surgeon (d. 1951)
1879 - Alfred Korzybski, Polish linguist (d. 1950)
1883 - Franz Kafka, Czech writer (d. 1924)
1893 - Mississippi John Hurt, American musician (d. 1966)
1903 - Ace Bailey, Canadian hockey player (d. 1992)
1906 - George Sanders, Russian-born actor (d. 1972)
1908 - M. F. K. Fisher, American writer (d. 1992)
1913 - Dorothy Kilgallen, American columnist and television personality (d. 1965)
1921 - Susan Peters, American actress (d. 1952)
1927 - Ken Russell, British director
1930 - Carlos Kleiber, Austrian conductor (d. 2004)
1935 - Harrison Schmitt, astronaut
1937 - Tom Stoppard, Czech-born playwright
1939 - L?szl? Kov?cs, Hungarian politician and diplomat
1940 - C?sar Tovar, Venezuelan Major League Baseball player (d. 1994)
1940 - Lamar Alexander U.S. Senator from Tennesse
1944 - Michel Polnareff, French singer and songwriter
1946 - Leszek Miller, Prime Minister of Poland
1947 - Dave Barry, American writer
1947 - Betty Buckley, American actress
1949 - Jan Smithers, American actress
1949 - Johnnie Wilder, Jr., American singer (Heatwave) (d. 2006)
1950 - James Hahn, American politician
1951 - Richard Hadlee, New Zealand cricketer
1952 - Alan Autry, American football player, actor, and politician
1955 - Sanma Akashiya, Japanese television performer and actor
1956 - Don Vito, of MTV's Viva La Bam
1957 - Laura Branigan, American singer (d. 2004)
1959 - Julie Burchill, British journalist and author
1959 - Stephen Pearcy, American singer (Ratt)
1960 - Vince Clarke, British songwriter (Depeche Mode, Yazoo, and Erasure)
1961 - Pedro Romeiras, Portuguese dancer
1961 - Tim Smith, English musician (Cardiacs)
1962 - Tom Cruise, American actor
1964 - Joanne Harris, British author
1964 - Yeardley Smith, American actress
1965 - Shinya Hashimoto, Japanese wrestler (d. 2005)
1966 - Moises Alou, baseball player
1969 - Kevin Hearn, Canadian keyboardist (Barenaked Ladies)
1970 - Teemu Sel?nne, Finnish hockey player
1970 - Shawnee Smith, American actress
1970 - Serhiy Honchar, Ukrainian cyclist
1973 - Johnny Terris, Canadian-born actor and director
1976 - Andrea Barber, American actress
1980 - Roland Mark Schoeman, South African swimmer
1986 - Oscar Ustari, Argentine footballer
1987 - Sebastian Vettel, German racing driver
Deaths
Events - Births683 - Pope Leo II
1570 - Aonio Paleario, Italian humanist
1642 - Maria de' Medici, wife of Henry IV of France (b. 1573)
1672 - Francis Willughby, English biologist (b. 1635)
1704 - Sophia Alekseyevna, regent of Russia (b. 1657)
1749 - William Jones, Welsh mathematician (b. 1675)
1778 - Anna Maria Walburga Mozart n?e Pertl, mother of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (b. 1720)
1790 - Jean-Baptiste L. Rom? de l'Isle, French chemist (b. 1736)
1795 - Louis-Georges de Br?quigny, French historian (b. 1714)
1795 - Antonio de Ulloa, Spanish general and governor of Louisiana (b. 1716)
1858 - Alexander Andreyevich Ivanov, Russian painter (b. 1806)
1863 - George Hull Ward, American general (b. 1826)
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 - Hip?lito Yrigoyen, President of Argentina (b. 1852)
1935 - Andr? Citro?n, French automobile pioneer (b. 1878)
1942 - Louis Franchet d'Esp?rey, French general (b. 1856)
1957 - Dolf Luque, baseball player (b. 1890)
1969 - Brian Jones, English musician (The Rolling Stones) (drowned) (b. 1942)
1971 - Jim Morrison, American singer (The Doors) (b. 1943)
1977 - Alexander M. Volkov, Russian novelist and mathematician (b. 1891)
1979 - Louis Durey, French composer (b. 1888)
1986 - Rudy Vallee, American singer (b. 1901)
1989 - Jim Backus, American actor (b. 1913)
1993 - Joe DeRita, American actor and comedian (b. 1909)
1993 - Don Drysdale, Baseball player (b. 1936)
1994 - Lew Hoad, Australian tennis player (b. 1934)
1995 - Pancho Gonzales, American tennis player (b. 1928)
1998 - Danielle Bunten Berry, American software developer (b. 1949)
1999 - Mark Sandman, American musician (b. 1952)
2000 - Kemal Sunal, Turkish actor (b. 1944)
2001 - Mordecai Richler, Canadian author (b. 1931)
2003 - Gaetano Alibrandi, Papal diplomat (b. 1914)
2004 - Andrian Nikolayev, cosmonaut (b. 1929)
2005 - Alberto Lattuada, Italian film director (b. 1914)
2005 - Gaylord Nelson, U.S. Senator from Wisconsin (b. 1916)
2006 - Benjamin Hendrickson, American actor (b.1950)
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