Today in History
3 July
George Washington
Samuel
De Schamplain
(Explorer)
Karl Benz and his 1st automobile
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| Battle at Adrianopolis: Flavius Julius Crispus' beats emperor Licinius | ||
| Hugo Capet crowned king of France | ||
| St Leo II ends his reign as Catholic Pope | ||
| 1090 Battle at Hagenoorde: German emperor beats earl Egbert II | ||
| 1187 Crusaders enter Tiberias |
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| 1423 Louis XI, King of France (1461-83) was born | ||
| 1428 Treaty of Delft-between Jacoba of Bayern & Philip the Good | ||
| 1468 Duke Charles the Stout marries Princess Margaretha of York | ||
| 1567 Samuel de Champlain, explorer (Lake Champlain) was born | ||
| 1608 Quebec was founded by French explorer Samuel de Champlain. | ||
| 1630 Emperor Ferdinand II opens German Parliament | ||
| 1661 Portugal gives Tanger & Bombay to English King Charles II | ||
| 1720 Sweden & Denmark sign peace treaty | ||
| 1754 George Washington surrenders to French, Ft Necessity (7 Years' War) | ||
| 1775 Gen. George Washington took formal command of the Continental Army at Cambridge, Massachusetts, in the American Revolution. | ||
| 1778 British forces massacre 360 men, women & children in Wyoming, Pa | ||
| 1778 Prussia declares war on Austria | ||
| 1793 John Claire, England, poet was born | ||
| 1806 Michael Keens exhibits 1st cultivated strawberry | ||
| 1814 Americans capture Fort Erie Canada | ||
| 1819 The first savings bank in America, the Bank for Savings in the City of New York, opened for business. | ||
| 1848 Slaves freed in Danish West Indies (now US Virgin Islands) | ||
| 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 | ||
| 1883 Franz Kafka, Czech, author (Metamorphosis, Trial, Amerika) was born |
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| 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 | ||
| 1888 NY Giant pitcher Rube Marquard ties record of 19 game win-streak | ||
| 1890 King Leopold II gives Congo to Belgium | ||
| 1898 American troops captured deserted Wake Island | ||
| 1898 The U.S. Navy defeated the Spanish fleet in the harbor of Santiago, Cuba, in the Spanish-American War. | ||
| 1898 Captain Joshua Slocum arrived at Newport, Rhode Island, after completing the first solo circumnavigation of the world | Samuel
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| 1905 Kuyper govt forms in Holland | ||
| 1907 Pope decree forbids modernization of theology | ||
| 1915 US military forces occupy Haiti, remain until 1934 | ||
| 1920 Royal Air Force holds an air display at Hendon, England | ||
| 1928 John Logie Baird transmitted the world's first color television transmission in London. | ||
| 1940 British ships destroyed the French fleet at Oran and Mers-el-Kebir in Algeria to prevent them falling into enemy hands. Over 1,000 French sailors died. | ||
| 1940 German occupiers forbids using Dutch royal names | ||
| 1942 Germany troop march into Sebastopol | ||
| 1942 Hitler visits fieldmarshal Von Bocks headquarter/d into/d Ukraine | ||
| 1948 Kidnapper Caryl Chessman sentenced to death | ||
| 1950 1st time US & North Korean forces clash in Korean War | |
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| 1952 Puerto Rico's constitution approved by US Congress | ||
| 1954 Food rationing ends in Britain | ||
| 1962 President Charles de Gaulle of France declared Algeria independent. | ||
| 1965 USSR & Persia sign dam building & economic aid pact | ||
| 1969 Brian Jones, a founding member of the British rock group Rolling Stones, drowned in his swimming pool from a drug overdose. | ||
| 1970 British aircraft crashes at Barcelona, 112 killed | ||
| 1976 Adolfo Suarez becomes premier of Spain | ||
| 1976 Israel launches rescue of 103 Air France crew & passengers being held at Entebbe Airport in Uganda by pro-Palestinian hijackers | ||
| 1985 CBS announces a 21% stock buy-back to thwart Ted Turner's takeover | ||
| 1986 Pres Reagan presided over relighting of renovated Statue of Liberty | Karl Benz and his 1st automobile |
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| 1987 2 men became 1st hot-air balloon travelers to cross Atlantic | ||
| 1987 In France, Klaus Barbie, the Nazi "butcher of Lyon," was jailed for life for wartime crimes against humanity. | ||
| 1988 The American warship Vincennes shot down an Iran Airbus A300 over the Gulf in the last weeks of the Iran-Iraq war, killing all 290 aboard | ||
| 1993 Military leader General Raoul Cedras signed a U.N. plan to restore democracy to Haiti. | ||
| 1996 Russian President Boris Yeltsin won the runoff vote against Communist leader Gennady Zyuganov to retain the presidency. | ||
| 1996 British Prime Minister John Major announced that the historic Stone of Scone, the ancient symbol of Scottish kings, was to be removed from London's Westminster Abbey after 700 years and returned to Scotland. | ||
| 1997 Haiti was admitted as the 15th member of the Caribbean Community, CARICOM. | ||