About July 3
July 3, 2024 is the 185th day of the year 2024 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 181 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Wednesday.
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Cancer is the sun sign of a person born on this day. Ruby is the modern birthstone for this month. Ruby is the mystical birthstone from Tibetan origin that dates back over a thousand years.
According to the lunisolar Chinese calendar, there are 210 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.
What Happened On July 3
- 987 –Hugh Capet is crowned King of France, the first of the Capetian dynasty that would rule France till the French Revolution in 1792.
- 1608 –Québec City is founded by Samuel de Champlain.
- 1775 –American Revolutionary War: George Washington takes command of the Continental Army at Cambridge, Massachusetts.
- 1778 –American Revolutionary War: British forces kill 360 people in the Wyoming Valley massacre.
- 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.
- 1849 –The French enter 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’ 2nd mint in San Francisco, California.
- 1866 –Austro-Prussian War is decided at the Battle of Königgratz, resulting in Prussia taking over as the prominent German nation from Austria.
- 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 is admitted as the 43rd U.S. state.
- 1898 –Spanish-American War: The Spanish fleet, led by Pascual Cervera y Topete, is destroyed by the U.S. Navy in Santiago, Cuba.
- 1940 –World War II: the French fleet of the Atlantic based at Mers el Kébir, is bombarded by the British fleet, coming from Gibraltar, causing the loss of three battleships: Dunkerque, Provence and Bretagne. One thousand two hundred sailors perish.
- 1962 –The Algerian War of Independence against the French ends.
- 1969 –The biggest explosion in the history of rocketry occurs when the Soviet N-1 rocket explodes and subsequently destroys its launchpad.
- 1988 –The Fatih Sultan Mehmet Bridge in Istanbul, Turkey is completed, providing the second connection between the continents of Europe and Asia over the Bosporus.
- 1996 –Stone of Scone is returned to Scotland.
- 2001 –A Vladivostok Avia Tupolev Tu-154 jetliner crashes on approach to landing at Irkutsk, Russia killing 145 people.
- 2005 –Same-sex marriage in Spain becomes legal.
- 2006 –Valencia metro accident leaves 43 dead in Valencia, Spain.
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