July 3

July 3rd is the 184th day of the year (185th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 181 days remaining.

Events

• 1608 - Quebec City founded by Samuel de Champlain.
• 1844 - The last pair of Great Auks is killed.
• 1866 - Austro-Prussian War decided at Battle of Königgratz, resulting in Prussia taking over as the prominent German nation from Austria.
• 1890 - Idaho is admitted as the 43rd U.S. state.
• 1898 - First solo circumnavigation of the globe completed by Joshua Slocum from Briar Island[?] Nova Scotia
• 1962 - Algeria becomes independent after 132 years of French rule.
• 1964 - President Lyndon Johnson signs the Civil Rights Act of 1964, which prohibits segregation in public places.
• 1988 - USS Vincennes shoots down an Iran Air jetliner over the Persian Gulf, killing all 290 people aboard.

Births

• 1854 - Leos Janacek, Czech composer (+ 1928)
• 1870 - Richard Bedford Bennett, eleventh Prime Minister of Canada (+ 1947)
• 1875 - Ferdinand Sauerbruch[?], surgeon (+ 1951)
• 1883 - Franz Kafka, writer (+ 1924)
• 1893 - Mississippi John Hurt (+ 1966)
• 1906 - George Sanders[?], actor (+ 1972)
• 1909 - Stavros Spiros Niarchos[?], ship owner (+ 1996)
• 1913 - Dorothy Kilgallen[?], newspaper columnist, early television personality (+ 1965)
• 1927 - Ken Russell, director: Altered States, Gothic, Tommy
• 1928 - Günter Bruno Fuchs[?], writer (+ 1977)
• 1934 - Manfred Bieler[?], writer
• 1935 - Harrison Schmitt, astronaut
• 1937 - Tom Stoppard, playwright: The Real Thing, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead,, screenwriter: Billy Bathgate, Shakespeare in Love
• 1947 - Betty Buckley[?], actress
• 1962 - Tom Cruise, actor: Mission Impossible, Jerry Maguire, Eyes Wide Shut, Magnolia
• 1964 - Joanne Harris, author

Deaths

• 1914 - Joseph Chamberlain, British politician
• 1918 - Sultan Mehmed V of the Ottoman Empire
• 1935 - André Citroën[?], automobile pioneer
• 1969 - Brian Jones, rock and roll musician, member of the Rolling Stones found dead in his swimming pool. He had probably died the previous night.
• 1971 - Jim Morrison, singer - The Doors
• 1979 - Louis Durey, composer, member of Les Six
• 1986 - Rudy Vallee, singer
• 1989 - Jim Backus, actor
• 1995 - Pancho Gonzales[?], tennis professional
• 2001 - Mordecai Richler, author

Holidays and observances

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