About July 3

July 3, 2025 is the 184th day of the year 2025 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 181 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Thursday.

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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 229 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.

What Happened On July 3

  • 324 –
    Battle of Adrianople Constantine I defeats Licinius, who flees to Byzantium.
  • 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.
  • 1767 –
    Pitcairn Island is discovered by Midshipman Robert Pitcairn on an expeditionary voyage commanded by Philip Carteret.
  • 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.
  • 1863 –
    American Civil War: The final day of the Battle of Gettysburg culminates with Pickett’s Charge.
  • 1884 –
    Dow Jones and Company publishes its first stock average.
  • 1890 –
    Idaho is admitted as the 43rd U.S. state.
  • 1938 –
    World speed record for a steam railway locomotive is set in England, by the Mallard, which reaches a speed of 126 mph.
  • 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.
  • 1952 –
    The Constitution of Puerto Rico is approved by the Congress of the United States.
  • 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.
  • 1970 –
    The Troubles: the “Falls Curfew” begins in Belfast, Northern Ireland.
  • 1979 –
    U.S. President Jimmy Carter signs the first directive for secret aid to the opponents of the pro-Soviet regime in Kabul.
  • 1994 –
    The deadliest day in Texas traffic history, according to the Texas Department of Public Safety. Forty-six people are killed in crashes.
  • 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.

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