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July 3 leap years ) in the Gregorian calendar . There are 181 days remaining until the end of the year.
Events
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 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 and 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 ) by Peter von Scholten .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 culminates with Pickett's Charge .
1866 - Austro-Prussian War is decided at the Battle of Königgratz , resulting in Prussia taking over as the prominent German nation from Austria .1884 - Dow Jones published its 1st stock average.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 fleet, led by Pascual Cervera y Topete , destroyed by the U.S. Navy in Santiago , Cuba during the Spanish-American War .1938 - World speed record for a steam railway locomotive is set in England , by the Mallard 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.1969 - The worst disaster in the history of rocketry occurs when the Soviet rocket N-1 explodes and subsequently destroys its launchpad. The explosion is due to a small, loose bolt that was accidentally sucked into a fuel pump.1970 - A British Dan-Air De Havilland Comet chartered jetliner crashes into mountains north of Barcelona , Spain killing 113 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.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.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 - Fitzgerald Inquiry released in Queensland .1994 - The deadliest day in Texas traffic history, according to the Texas Department of Public Safety. Forty six people were killed in crashes.1996 - Stone of Destiny returned to Scotland.2001 - A Vladivostok Avia 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 432,308 km (268,624 miles) by Earth .2007 - Ghana introduces new Ghanaian cedi currency.
Births
1423 - King Louis XI of France (d. 1483 )1442 - Emperor Go-Tsuchimikado of Japan (d. 1500 )1530 - Claude Fauchet , French historian (d. 1601 )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 )1743 - Sophia Magdalena of Denmark , queen consort of Sweden (d. 1813 )1851 - Charles Bannerman , Australian cricketer (d. 1930 )1854 - Leoš Janáček , Czech composer (d. 1928 )1870 - Richard Bedford Bennett , 11th Prime Minister of Canada (d. 1947 )1875 - Ferdinand Sauerbruch , German surgeon (d. 1951 )1878 - George M. Cohan , American actor, director, singer and dancer (d. 1942 )1879 - Alfred Korzybski , Polish linguist (d. 1950 )1880 - Carl Schuricht , Polish-born German conductor (d. 1967 )1883 - Franz Kafka , Czech writer (d. 1924 )1900 - Alessandro Blasetti , Italian film director (d. 1987 )1903 - Ace Bailey , Canadian ice hockey player (d. 1992 )1906 - George Sanders , British actor (d. 1972 )1908 - M. F. K. Fisher , American writer (d. 1992 )1908 - Robert B. Meyner , American politician (d. 1990 )
1913 - Dorothy Kilgallen , American columnist (d. 1965 )1917 - João Saldanha , Brazilian journalist and football manager (d. 1990 )1918 - S. V. Ranga Rao , South Indian actor (d. 1974 )1920 - Paul O'Dea , baseball player (d. 1978 )1921 - Susan Peters , American actress (d. 1952 )1924 - S. R. Nathan , 6th president of Singapore 1927 - Ken Russell , British director1930 - Carlos Kleiber , Austrian conductor (d. 2004 )1930 - Tommy Tedesco , American musician (d. 1997 )
1930 - Pete Fountain , American clarinetist
1933 - Edward Brandt , American doctor and public health official (d. 2007 )1935 - Harrison Schmitt , American astronaut and politician1937 - Tom Stoppard , Czech-born, British playwright1938 - Bolo Yeung , Hong Kong actor1939 - László Kovács , Hungarian politician and diplomat1940 - César Tovar , Venezuelan Major League Baseball player (d. 1994 )1940 - Lamar Alexander , American politician
1940 - Jerzy Buzek , Prime Minister of Poland
1940 - Fontella Bass , American soul singer
1942 - Eddy Mitchell , French singer and actor1942 - Paco Stanley , Mexican TV personality (d. 1999 )
1943 - Kurtwood Smith , American actor1944 - Michel Polnareff , French singer and songwriter1945 - Michael Cole , American TV actor1946 - Leszek Miller , Prime Minister of Poland 1947 - Dave Barry , American humorist and author1947 - Betty Buckley , American actress
1948 - Tarmo Koivisto , Finnish comics artist1949 - Jan Smithers , American actress1949 - Johnnie Wilder, Jr. , American singer (Heatwave ) (d. 2006 )
1950 - James Hahn , American politician
1950 - Ewen Chatfield , New Zealand cricketer
1951 - Richard Hadlee , New Zealand cricketer1951 - Jean-Claude Duvalier , Haitian politician
1955 - Sanma Akashiya , Japanese television performer1956 - Montel Williams , American celebrity and former talk show host1956 - Don Vito , American Viva La Bam
1957 - Laura Branigan , American singer (d. 2004 )1958 - Matthew Fraser , Canadian-British journalist1958 - Siân Lloyd , Welsh weather presenter
1958 - Aaron Tippin , American singer
1959 - Julie Burchill , British journalist and author1959 - Stephen Pearcy , American singer (Ratt )
1960 - Vince Clarke , British songwriter (Depeche Mode , Yazoo , and Erasure )1961 - Pedro Romeiras , Portuguese dancer1961 - Tim Smith , English musician (Cardiacs )
1962 - Tom Cruise , American actor1962 - Hunter Tylo , American actress
1962 - Thomas Gibson , American actor
1964 - Joanne Harris , British author1964 - Yeardley Smith , French-born American actress
1965 - Shinya Hashimoto , Japanese wrestler (d. 2005 )1965 - Connie Nielsen , Danish actress
1966 - Moisés Alou , Dominican baseball player1966 - Sandra Lee , American television host and cookbook author
1967 - Brian Cashman , American major league baseball executive1969 - Kevin Hearn , Canadian musician (Barenaked Ladies )1970 - Teemu Selänne , Finnish ice hockey player1970 - Shawnee Smith , American actress
1970 - Serhiy Honchar , Ukrainian cyclist
1973 - Johnny Terris , Canadian-born actor and director1973 - Patrick Wilson , American actor
1973 - Emma Cunniffe , British actress
1976 - Andrea Barber , American actress1976 - Wade Belak , Canadian ice hockey player
1976 - Henry Olonga , Zimbabwean cricketer
1976 - Wanderlei Silva , Brazilian mixed martial artist
1979 - Ludivine Sagnier , French actress1979 - Sotirios Kyrgiakos , Greek footballer
1979 - David Bacani , American baseball player
1980 - Roland Mark Schoeman , South African swimmer1980 - Kevin Boyle , American basketballer
1982 - Kanika , Indian actress1983 - Steph Jones , American singer and model1984 - Syed Rasel , Bangladeshi cricketer1984 - Corey Sevier , Canadian actor
1987 - Sebastian Vettel , German racing driver
Deaths
683 - Pope Leo II 1570 - Aonio Paleario , Italian humanist1642 - 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 née Pertl , mother of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (b. 1720 )1790 - Jean-Baptiste L. Romé de l'Isle , French chemist (b. 1736 )1795 - Louis-Georges de Bréquigny , French historian (b. 1714 )1795 - Antonio de Ulloa , Spanish general and governor of Louisiana (b. 1716 )
1809 - Joseph Quesnel , French Canadian composer, poet and playwright (b. 1746 )1858 - Alexander Andreyevich Ivanov , Russian painter (b. 1806 )1863 - George Hull Ward , American general (b. 1826 )1904 - Theodor Herzl , Austrian Zionist (b. 1860 )1904 - Edouard Beaupré , Canadian giant and strongman (b. 1881 )
1914 - Joseph Chamberlain , British politician (b. 1836 )1916 - Hetty Green , American businesswoman (b. 1834 )1918 - Sultan Mehmed V of the Ottoman Empire (b. 1844 )1933 - Hipólito Yrigoyen , President of Argentina (b. 1852 )1935 - André Citroën , French automobile pioneer (b. 1878 )1942 - Louis Franchet d'Espèrey , French general (b. 1856 )1954 - Siegfried Handloser , German physician (b. 1895 )1957 - Dolf Luque , baseball player (b. 1890 )1969 - Brian Jones , English musician (The Rolling Stones ) (drowned) (b. 1942 )1971 - Jim Morrison , American poet, singer (The Doors ) (b. 1943 )1977 - Alexander M. Volkov , Russian novelist and mathematician (b. 1891 )1978 - James Daly , American actor (b. 1918 )1979 - Louis Durey , French composer (b. 1888 )1981 - Ross Martin , Polish-American actor (b. 1920 )1985 - Frank Selke , Canadian ice hockey manager (b. 1893 )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 )1995 - Eddie Mazur , Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1929 )
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 )2001 - Johnny Russell , American country singer and songwriter (b. 1940 )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 - Joseph Goguen , American computer scientist (b. 1941 )2006 - Benjamin Hendrickson , American actor (b. 1950 )
2007 - Alice Timander , Swedish dentist (b. 1915 )2007 - Boots Randolph , American saxophonist (b. 1927 )
Holidays and observances
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