Notable Historical Events on July 3rd
July 3rd Historical Events
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
324 |
Battle of Adrianople Roman Emperor Constantine I defeats Co-Emperor Licinius, who flees to Byzantium. |
683 |
St Leo II ends his reign as Catholic Pope |
987 |
Hugh Capet (Hugh the Great) crowned King of the Franks |
1090 |
Battle at Hagenoorde: German emperor beats earl Egbert II |
1187 |
Crusaders enter Tiberias |
1187 |
Battle of Horns of Hattin; Saladin, Sultan of Egypt and Syria, destroys Jerusalem's crusader army. |
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. |
1428 |
Treaty of Delft between Jacoba of Bavaria & Philip the Good of Burgundy |
1608 |
Samuel de Champlain founds city of Quebec |
1630 |
Emperor Ferdinand II opens German Parliament |
1661 |
Portugal gives Tangier & Bombay to English King Charles II |
1720 |
Sweden & Denmark sign peace treaty |
1754 |
George Washington surrenders to French, Fort Necessity (7 Years' War) |
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 |
Washington takes command of Continental Army at Cambridge, Mass |
1778 |
British forces massacre 360 men, women & children in Wyoming, Pa |
1778 |
Prussia declares war on Austria |
1806 |
Michael Keens exhibits 1st cultivated strawberry |
1814 |
Americans capture Fort Erie, Canada (War of 1812) |
1816 |
French frigate "Medusa" runs aground off Cap Blanc. Gross incompetence kills 150 in calm seas |
1819 |
1st savings bank in US (Bank of Savings in NYC) opens its doors |
1839 |
1st state normal school in US opens, Lexington, Mass, with 3 students |
1841 |
John Couch Adams decides to determine position of an unknown planet by irregularities it causes in the motion of Uranus |
1844 |
The last pair of Great Auks is killed. |
1848 |
Slaves freed in Danish West Indies (now US 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 authorizes US's 2nd mint (San Francisco, California) |
1861 |
Colonel Jackson receives his commission as brigadier general |
1861 |
Pony Express arrives in SF with overland letters from NY |
1861 |
Martinsburg, VA - Confederate forces pull out before US advance |
1863 |
Battle of Donaldsonville, LA |
1863 |
Battle of Gettysburg, Pa, the largest battle ever fought on the American continent, ends in a major victory for the Union. |
1864 |
Battle of Chattahoochie River, GA [until Jul 9] |
1864 |
Harpers Ferry, WV - Federals evacuate in face of Early's advance |
1871 |
Jesse James robs bank in Corydon, Iowa ($45,000) |
1876 |
Montenegro declares war on Turkey |
1883 |
SS Daphne sinks on Clyde River Scotland; 195 die |
1884 |
Dow Jones published it's 1st stock avg |
1886 |
1st NY Tribune printing using 1st commercial linotype machine |
1886 |
In Germany, Karl Benz drives 1st automobile |
1890 |
Idaho admitted as 43rd US state |
1890 |
King Leopold II gives Congo, previously a private possession, to Belgium |
1895 |
Start of Sherlock Holmes "Adventure of Black Peter" (BG) |
1898 |
American troops captured deserted Wake Island |
1898 |
Dutch Automobile Club forms (KNAC) |
1898 |
Joshua Slocum completes 1st solo circumnavigation of the globe |
1898 |
US Navy defeats Spanish fleet in Santiago harbor, Cuba |
1900 |
Trying in stem the growing popular resentment, Tsar Nicholas of Russia issues a decree that abolishes the banishment of dissidents and troublemakers to Siberia |
1900 |
The British evacuate Rustenburg and occupy Commando Nek and Silkaatsnek in the Anglo-Boer war |
1901 |
18th Wimbledon Women's Tennis: Charlotte Sterry beats B Hillyard (6-2 6-2) |
1901 |
25th Wimbledon Mens Tennis: Arthur Gore beats R Doherty (4-6 7-5 6-4 6-4) |
1902 |
Excelsior soccer team forms in Rotterdam |
1905 |
Kuyper government forms in Holland |
1905 |
Marvin Hart KOs Jack Hart in 12 for heavyweight boxing title |
1907 |
Pope decree forbids modernization of theology |
1908 |
25th Wimbledon Women's Tennis: Charlotte Sterry beats A Morton (6-4 6-4) |
1908 |
32nd Wimbledon Mens' Tennis: Arthur Gore beats H Roper-Barrett (6-3 6-2 4-6 3-6 6-4) |
1909 |
26th Wimbledon Women's Tennis: Dora Boothby beats A Morton (6-4 4-6 8-6) |
1909 |
33rd Wimbledon Men's Tennis: Arthur Gore beats J Ritchie (6-8 1-6 6-2 6-2 6-2) |
1911 |
Ty Cobb hits in his 40th straight game. Does not get a hit next day |
1912 |
NY Giant pitcher Rube Marquard ties record of 19 game win-streak |
1913 |
Common tern banded in Maine; found dead in 1919 in Africa (1st bird known to have crossed the Atlantic) |
1913 |
Confederate veterans at the Great Reunion of 1913 reenact Pickett's Charge; upon reaching the high-water mark of the Confederacy they are met by the outstretched hands of friendship from Union survivors. |
1915 |
After exploding a bomb in the US Senate reception room the previous day, Erich Muenter, an instructor in German at Cornell University, shoots JP Morgan for representing the British government in war contract negotiations |
1916 |
1st of 3 fatal shark attacks occurred near NJ shore (4 die) |
1917 |
Spontaneous demonstration at Tauride-palace Petrograd |
1918 |
SDAP'er Suze Groenweg elected 1st woman in Dutch parliament |
1920 |
40th Wimbledon Men's Tennis: Bill Tilden beats Patterson (2-6 6-3 6-2 6-4) |
1920 |
Java Technical School Bandung opens |
1920 |
Royal Air Force holds an air display at Hendon, England |
1920 |
33rd Wimbledon Women's Tennis: Suzanne Lenglen beats D Chambers (6-3 6-0) |
1923 |
Dockers' strike in Hull/Grimsby/Cardiff/Bristol over to London |
1925 |
38th Wimbledon Women's Tennis: Suzanne Lenglen beats Joan Fry (6-2 6-0) |
1926 |
39th Wimbledon Women's Tennis: Kitty Godfree beats L de Alvarez (6-2 4-6 6-3) |
1926 |
46th Wimbledon Men's Tennis: Jean Borotra beats H Kinsey (8-6 6-1 6-3) |
1927 |
47th Wimbledon Men's Tennis: H Cochet beats Borotra (4-6 4-6 6-3 6-4 7-5) |
1928 |
1st colour TV broadcast in London (John Logie Baird) |
1929 |
Dunlop Latex Development Laboratories made foam rubber |
1930 |
US Veterans Administration created |
1931 |
51st Wimbledon Mens Tennis: Sid Wood Jr beats F X Shields (walkover) |
1931 |
Max Schmeling TKOs Young Stribling in 15 for heavyweight boxing title |
1931 |
44th Wimbledon Women's Tennis: Cilly Aussem beats H Sperling (6-2 7-5) |
1932 |
1st Sunday game at Fenway Park, Yanks beat Red Sox 13-2 |
1932 |
John McGraw retires from baseball |
1934 |
FDIC pays off 1st insured depositors, Fon du Lac Bank, East Peoria IL |
1936 |
Jahangir Khan kills a sparrow while cricket bowling, Cambridge University v MCC |
1936 |
56th Wimbledon Men's Tennis: Fred Perry beats G von Cramm (6-1 6-1 6-0) |
1938 |
President Franklin Roosevelt dedicates the Eternal Light Peace Memorial and lights the eternal flame at Gettysburg Battlefield. |
1939 |
Ernst Heinkel demonstrates 800 kph (500 mph) rocket plane to Hitler |
1939 |
Lou Gehrig day; Gehrig makes "luckiest man" speech |
1940 |
ARP-leader/ex-premier Colijn argues cooperation with Germany |
1940 |
British Royal Navy sinks French fleet in Mers-el-Kebir, Algeria, to prevent Germany seizing it. |
1940 |
German occupiers forbid using Dutch royal names |
1942 |
German troops march into Sebastopol, Crimea |
1942 |
Hitler visits Field Marshal Von Bock's headquarters in Ukraine |
1943 |
Liberator bombers sinks U-628 |
1944 |
Oriole Park (minor league baseball stadium) burns down in Baltimore |
1944 |
US V-III-E Army corp opens assault on Coutances Cotentin |
1946 |
1st Dutch government of Beel forms |
1946 |
The Cape Passive Resistance Council is formed at a mass meeting in Cape Town, attended by 1,500 people |
1947 |
252,288 people (record) pass through Grand Central Station, NYC |
1947 |
Cleveland Indians purchase Larry Dolby, the 1st black in AL |
1947 |
Soviet Union doesn't participate in Marshall Plan |
1948 |
55th Wimbledon Women's Tennis: Louise Brough beats Doris Hart (6-3 8-6) |
1948 |
Kidnapper Caryl Chessman sentenced to death, California; the execution didn't happen until 1960 |
1950 |
1st time US & North Korean forces clash in Korean War |
1950 |
Casey Stengel asks Joe DiMaggio to play 1st base (handles 13 chances) |
1951 |
33rd PGA Championship: Sam Snead at Oakmont CC Oakmont Pa |
1952 |
Puerto Rico's constitution approved by US Congress |
1953 |
67th Wimbledon Men's Tennis: Vic Seixas beats Kurt Nielsen (9-7 6-3 6-4) |
1954 |
"Wonderful Town" closes at Winter Garden Theater NYC after 559 perfs |
1954 |
61st Wimbledon Women's Tennis: Maureen Connolly beats L Brough (6-2 7-5) |
1954 |
9th US Women's Open Golf Championship won by Babe Didrikson-Zaharias |
1954 |
Food rationing ends in Britain |
1958 |
"Andy Williams Show" premieres on ABC (later on CBS & NBC) |
1959 |
73rd Wimbledon Men's Tennis: Alex Olmedo beats Rod Laver (6-4 6-3 6-4) |
1959 |
88th British Golf Open: Gary Player shoots a 284 at Muirfield Gullane |
1962 |
Algerian Revolution against French rule ends (Algeria gains independence on 5th July) |
1963 |
In New Zealand, a National Airways Corporation Dakota DC-3 crashes in the Kaimai Ranges; all 23 passengers and crew are killed in what is still New Zealand's worst internal civil aviation accident |
1964 |
78th Wimbledon Men's Tennis: Roy Emerson beats Stolle (64 12-10 46 63) |
1965 |
72nd Wimbledon Women's Tennis: Margaret Smith beats M Fraiser (64 75) |
1965 |
Phillies Dick Allen & Frank Thomas get into a fight during practice |
1965 |
USSR & Persia sign dam building & economic aid pact |
1965 |
Harold Strachan, member of the Communist Party of South Africa and Umkhonto we Sizwe, the armed wing of the African National Congress, is served with a restriction order in terms of the Suppression of Communism Act |
1966 |
21st US Women's Open Golf Championship won by Sandra Spuzich |
1966 |
Brave pitcher Tony Cloninger, is 1st NL to hit 2 grand slams in a game |
1966 |
Race riots in Omaha Nebraska |
1967 |
"News at 10" premieres on English TV |
1968 |
41°F lowest temperature ever recorded in Cleveland in July |
1968 |
Cleve Indian Luis Tiant strikes out 19 Minnesota Twins |
1968 |
As part of a series of protests against housing conditions in Derry, the Derry Housing Action Committee (DHAC) hold a sit-down protest on the newly opened second deck of the Craigavon Bridge in the city, Northern Ireland |
1969 |
78,000 attend Newport Jazz Festival, Newport, RI |
1970 |
200,000 attend Atlanta Pop Festival |
1970 |
77th Wimbledon Womens Tennis: Margaret Smith beats King (14-12 11-9) |
1970 |
British aircraft crashes at Barcelona, 112 killed |
1970 |
California Angels Clyde Wright no-hits Oakland A's, 8-0 |
1970 |
The British Army imposed a curfew on the Falls Road area of Belfast as they search for weapons; during the operation they come under attack from the Official IRA (OIRA) and republican rioters |
1971 |
85th Wimbledon Men's Tennis: J Newcombe beats S Smith (63 57 26 64 64) |
1972 |
Themba Sono is forced to resign as president of South African Student Organisation (SASO) |
1972 |
The Ulster Defence Association and the British Army come into conflict about a 'no-go' area at Ainsworth Avenue, Belfast |
1973 |
Brothers Jim & Gaylord Perry face each other for only time, Tigers beat Indians 5-4, as Gaylord loses |
1973 |
General Walters, serves as acting director of CIA |
1974 |
Pitching in major league-record 13th consecutive game for Dodgers |
1974 |
Soyuz 14 carries 2 cosmonauts to space station Salyut 3 |
1974 |
Mike Marshall saves Tommy John's 4-1 win |
1976 |
90th Wimbledon Men's Tennis: Bjorn Borg beats Ilie Nastase (64 62 97) |
1976 |
Adolfo Suarez becomes premier of Spain |
1976 |
Brian Wilson performs with the Beach Boys after 12 years apart |
1976 |
Israel launches rescue of 103 Air France crew & passengers being held at Entebbe Airport in Uganda by pro-Palestinian hijackers |
1977 |
5th du Maurier Golf Classic (Peter Jackson Classic): Judy Rankin |
1977 |
Turkey: premier Ecevit goes off |
1977 |
The Senegalese Republican Movement (MRS) is founded. |
1978 |
Jane Blalock wins LPGA Mayflower Golf Classic |
1978 |
US Supreme Court rules 5-4, FCC had a right to reprimand NY radio station WBAI for broadcasting George Carlin's "Filthy Words" |
1980 |
1st US Seniors Golf Open: Roberto deVicenzo |
1980 |
73,096 in Cleveland watch Indians beat Yankees 7-0 |
1981 |
88th Wimbledon Womens Tennis: Chris Evert beats H Mandlikova (6-2 6-2) |
1981 |
NYC transit fare rises from 60 cents to 75 cents, new brass Y-cut-out token |
1982 |
89th Wimbledon Women's Tennis: M Navratilova beats C Evert (61 36 62) |
1982 |
Riot at building Stopera Amsterdam (damages Ÿ1 million) |
1983 |
11th du Maurier Golf Classic (Peter Jackson Classic): Hollis Stacy |
1983 |
97th Wimbledon Men's Tennis: John McEnroe beats Chris Lewis (6-2 6-2 6-2) |
1983 |
Calvin Smith of US becomes fastest man alive (9.93 for 100m) |
1983 |
Rangers explode for 12 runs in 15th inning of a 16-4 win over the A's |
1984 |
Derek Underwood's maiden FC century after 22 yrs of trying |
1984 |
Dolphin rocket launched off San Clemente Island |
1984 |
Greenidge scores brilliant 214 off 241 balls to win Lord's Test |
1984 |
Supreme Court rules Jaycees may be forced to admit women as members |
1985 |
CBS announces a 21% stock buy-back to thwart Ted Turner's takeover |
1986 |
Kuwait's National Assembly (Majlis al Umma) dissolves |
1986 |
President Reagan presided over relighting of renovated Statue of Liberty |
1987 |
2 men became 1st hot-air balloon travelers to cross Atlantic |
1987 |
NY Met Darryl Strawberry threatens teammates Wally Backman & Lee Mazzilli for criticizing his play |
1988 |
16th du Maurier Golf Classic: Sally Little |
1988 |
A's Gene Nelson is 1st AL pitcher to steal a base since 1973 |
1988 |
US Vincennes in Strait of Hormoez shoots Iran Airbus A300, kills 290 |
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. |
1989 |
Peter Koech of Kenya sets 3k steeplechase rec (8:05.39) in Stockholm |
1989 |
US Supreme Court rules states do not have to provide funds for abortions |
1989 |
The movie "Batman" set record of quickest $100 million (10 days) |
1990 |
Members of 2 Live Crew formally charged with obscenity in Florida |
1990 |
Liberian President, Samuel Kanyon Doe offers to resign in response to rebel incursions in his country; he will later be kidnapped and executed |
1991 |
Gateway Board of Trustees approve a 20-year lease with Cleve Indians |
1992 |
Thirty-one years after being expelled, South Africa has its FIFA membership reinstated |
1993 |
100th Wimbledon Women's Tennis Open: Steffi Graf beats Jana Novotna (7-6 1-6 6-4) |
1993 |
Boon completes 16th Test Cricket century, 101 at Trent Bridge |
1994 |
108th Wimbledon Men's Tennis: P Sampras beats G Ivanisevic (76 76 60) |
1994 |
15th US Seniors Golf Open: Simon Hobday |
1994 |
Romania eliminates Argentina 3-2 in soccer world cup |
1994 |
Tammie Green wins Youngstown-Warren LPGA Golf Classic |
1994 |
The deadliest day in Texas traffic history, according to the Texas Department of Public Safety. Forty six people were killed in crashes. |
1996 |
British House of Commons annouces Stone of Scone, used in the coronation of Scottish and British monarchs, will be returned to Scotland after 600 years |
1997 |
Mississippi becomes 1st state to settle tobacco suit |
2001 |
A Vladivostok Avia Tupolev TU-154 jetliner crashes on approach to landing at Irkutsk, Russia killing 145 people. |
2001 |
At a meeting of its oil ministers, OPEC agrees to maintain current production quotas; ministers indicate that, if Iraqi oil returns to the market, they may cut production in response to maintain their desired level of prices |
2004 |
Official opening of Bangkok's subway system. |
2005 |
The national law legalizing same-sex marriage takes effect in Spain. |
2005 |
112th Wimbledon Women's Tennis: Venus Williams beats Lindsay Davenport (4-6 7-6 9-7) |
2005 |
119th Wimbledon Men's Tennis: Roger Federer beats Andy Roddick (6-2 7-6 6-4) |
2006 |
Asteroid labeled as 2004 XP14 flies 432,308 km (268,624 miles) by Earth. |
2006 |
Steve Yzerman officially retires from the NHL, finishing with 692 goals and 1755 points |
2009 |
Mark II.5 Skytrain cars enter service in Metro Vancouver. |
2011 |
118th Wimbledon Women's Tennis: Petra Kvitová beats Maria Sharapova (6-3 6-4) |
2011 |
125th Wimbledon Men's Tennis: Novak Djokovic beats Rafael Nadal (6-4 6-1 1-6 6-3) |
2012 |
Truck bombing kills 25 people and wounds 40 in Diwaniyah, Iraq |
2012 |
Antonio Esfandiari wins a record $18.3 million in poker after winning the 2012 World Series of Poker $1,000,000 Buy-In |
2013 |
Egypt's president, Mohammed Morsi, is deposed by the military with Adly Mansour appointed interim president |
2016 |
Argentines take to streets, demand Messi return to national team |
2016 |
Thousands 'March for Europe' in London protesting Brexit |
2017 |
US ship sails near disputed island, raising China's hackles |
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