July 3rd Events |
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| July 3rd, 2006 (July 03 2006) | Event | Asteroid labeled as 2004 XP14 flies 432,308 km (268,624 miles) by Earth. | |
| July 3rd, 2005 (July 03 2005) | Event | The national law legalizing same-sex marriage takes effect in Spain. | |
| July 3rd, 2004 (July 03 2004) | Event | Official opening of Bangkok s subway system. | |
| July 3rd, 2001 (July 03 2001) | Event | A Vladivostok Avia Tupolev TU-154 jetliner crashes on approach to landing at Irkutsk, Russia killing 145 people. | |
| July 3rd, 1996 (July 03 1996) | Event | Stone of Scone returned to Scotland. | |
| July 3rd, 1994 (July 03 1994) | Event | The deadliest day in Texas traffic history, according to the Texas Department of Public Safety. Forty six people were killed in crashes. | |
| July 3rd, 1988 (July 03 1988) | Event | United States Navy warship USS Vincennes shoots down Iran Air Flight 655 over the Persian Gulf, killing all 290 people aboard. | |
| July 3rd, 1988 (July 03 1988) | Event | The Fatih Sultan Mehmet Bridge in Istanbul, Turkey is completed, providing the second connection between the continents of Europe and Asia over the Bosporus. | Ovid Quotes |
| July 3rd, 1986 (July 03 1986) | Event | US President Ronald Reagan presides over the relighting of the renovated Statue of Liberty. | Ronald Reagan Quotes |
| July 3rd, 1979 (July 03 1979) | Event | US President Jimmy Carter signs the first directive for secret aid to the opponents of the pro-Soviet regime in Kabul. | Jimmy Carter Quotes |
| July 3rd, 1977 (July 03 1977) | Event | The Senegalese Republican Movement (MRS) is founded. | |
| July 3rd, 1970 (July 03 1970) | Event | A British Dan-Air De Havilland Comet chartered jetliner crashes into mountains north of Barcelona, Spain killing 113 people. | |
| July 3rd, 1969 (July 03 1969) | Event | The biggest explosion in the history of rocketry occurs when the Soviet N1 rocket explodes and subsequently destroys its launchpad. | |
| July 3rd, 1962 (July 03 1962) | Event | The Algerian War of Independence against the French ends. | |
| July 3rd, 1952 (July 03 1952) | Event | Puerto Rico s Constitution is approved by the Congress of the United States. | |
| July 3rd, 1944 (July 03 1944) | Event | World War II: Minsk was liberated from Nazi control by Soviet troops during Operation Bagration. | |
| July 3rd, 1938 (July 03 1938) | Event | World speed record for a steam railway locomotive is set in England, by the Mallard, which reaches a speed of 126 mph.(203 km/h) | |
| July 3rd, 1898 (July 03 1898) | Event | Spanish-American War: The Spanish fleet, led by Pascual Cervera y Topete, is destroyed by the U.S. Navy in Santiago, Cuba. | |
| July 3rd, 1890 (July 03 1890) | Event | Idaho is admitted as the 43rd U.S. state. | |
| July 3rd, 1886 (July 03 1886) | Event | Karl Benz officially unveils the Benz Patent Motorwagenthe first purpose-built automobile. | |
| July 3rd, 1886 (July 03 1886) | Event | The New York Tribune becomes the first newspaper to use a linotype machine, eliminating typesetting by hand. | |
| July 3rd, 1884 (July 03 1884) | Event | Dow Jones published its 1st stock average. | |
| July 3rd, 1866 (July 03 1866) | Event | Austro-Prussian War is decided at the Battle of Koniggratz, resulting in Prussia taking over as the prominent German nation from Austria. | |
| July 3rd, 1863 (July 03 1863) | Event | U.S. Civil War: The final day of the Battle of Gettysburg culminates with Pickett s Charge. | |
| July 3rd, 1852 (July 03 1852) | Event | Congress establishes the United States s 2nd mint in San Francisco, California. | |
| July 3rd, 1849 (July 03 1849) | Event | The French entered Rome in order to restore Pope Pius IX to power. This would prove a major obstacle to Italian unification. | |
| July 3rd, 1848 (July 03 1848) | Event | Slaves are freed in the Danish West Indies (now U.S. Virgin Islands) by Peter von Scholten. | |
| July 3rd, 1844 (July 03 1844) | Event | The last pair of Great Auks is killed. | |
| July 3rd, 1839 (July 03 1839) | Event | The first state normal school in the United States, the forerunner to today s Framingham State College, opens in Lexington, Massachusetts with 3 students. | |
| July 3rd, 1819 (July 03 1819) | Event | The first savings bank in the United States (The Bank of Savings in New York City) opens. | |
| July 3rd, 1778 (July 03 1778) | Event | American Revolutionary War: British forces massacre 360 men, women and children in the Wyoming Valley massacre. | |
| July 3rd, 1775 (July 03 1775) | Event | American Revolutionary War: George Washington takes command of the Continental Army at Cambridge, Massachusetts. | George Washington Quotes |
| July 3rd, 1767 (July 03 1767) | Event | Pitcairn Island is discovered by Midshipman Robert Pitcairn on an expeditionary voyage commanded by Philip Carteret. | |
| July 3rd, 1767 (July 03 1767) | Event | Norway s oldest newspaper still in print, Adresseavisen, is founded (first edition published this date). | |
| July 3rd, 1754 (July 03 1754) | Event | French and Indian War: George Washington surrenders Fort Necessity to French forces. | George Washington Quotes |
| July 3rd, 1608 (July 03 1608) | Event | Quebec City founded by Samuel de Champlain. | |
| July 3rd, 1250 (July 03 1250) | Event | 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. | Louis IX of France Quotes |
| July 3rd, 0987 (July 03 0987) | Event | Hugh Capet is crowned King of France, the first of the Capetian dynasty which ruled France till the French Revolution in 1792. | |
| July 3rd, 0324 (July 03 0324) | Event | Battle of Adrianople Constantine I defeats Licinius, who flees to Byzantium. | Stan Lee Quotes |
