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Today in History ~ July 3
Events0987 - Hugo Capet crowned king of France
1608 - City of Quebec founded by Samuel de Champlain
1754 - George Washington surrenders to French, Ft Necessity (7 Years' War)
1775 - Gen. George Washington took command of the Continental Army at Cambridge, Mass. [H]
1778 - British forces massacre 360 men, women & children in Wyoming, Pa
1806 - Michael Keens exhibits 1st cultivated strawberry
1819 - 1st savings bank in US (Bank of Savings in NYC) opens its doors
1841 - John Couch Adams decides to determine the position of an unknown planet by the irregularities it causes in the motion of Uranus.
1848 - Slaves freed in Danish West Indies (now US Virgin Islands)
1853 - Commodore Matthew Perry reach Japan
1861 - Pony Express arrives in SF with overland letters from New York.
1861 - US Colonel Jackson receives his CSA commission as brigadier general
1863 - The three-day Civil War Battle of Gettysburg, Penn., ended in a major victory for the North as Confederate troops retreated. [H]
1863 - Vicksburg, Miss., surrendered to Union troops led by Gen. Ulysses S. Grant.
1863 - Battle of Donaldsonville, LA
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
1886 - In Germany, Karl Benz drives 1st automobile
1890 - Idaho became the 43rd state of the Union.
1898 - The U.S. Navy defeated a Spanish fleet in the harbor at Santiago, Cuba, during the Spanish-American War.
1907 - Pope decree forbids modernization of theology
1915 - US military forces occupy Haiti remain until 1934.
1916 - 1st of 3 fatal shark attacks occurred near NJ shore
1928 - The first color television transmission was accomplished by John Logie Baird in London.
1929 - Dunlop Latex Development Laboratories made foam rubber
1930 - Congress created the U.S. Veterans Administration.
1939 - Ernst Heinkel demonstrates 800-kph rocket plane to Hitler
1939 - Lou Gehrig day; Gehrig makes "luckiest man" speech
1940 - British Attack French Fleet Ten days after France signed an armistice with Nazi Germany, the British confiscated or destroyed some twenty French warships to prevent their use by Germany
1942 - Germany troop march into Sebastopol
1943 - Liberator bombers sinks U-628
1944 - During World War II, Soviet forces recaptured Minsk.
1947 - Soviet Union doesn't partake in Marshall Plan
1948 - Kidnapper Caryl Chessman sentenced to death
1950 - 1st time American & North Korean forces clash in the Korean War
1950 - Casey Stengel asks Joe DiMaggio to play 1st base (handles 13 chances)
1954 - Food rationing ends in Britain
1962 - Algerian Revolution against French ends (Algeria gains independence on 7/5) after 132 years of French rule
1970 - British aircraft crashes at Barcelona, 112 killed
1971 - Gamma surgery, a revolutionary bloodless method of destroying tumors and cancers, was performed in Sweden.
1974 - Soyuz 14 carries 2 cosmonauts to space station Salyut 3.
1976 - Israel launches rescue of 103 Air France crew & passengers being held at Entebbe Airport in Uganda by pro-Palestinian hijackers
1978 - Establishment Amazon Pact
1982 - Martina Navratilova deats Chris Evert Lloyd at Wimbeldon
1983 - Calvin Smith of US becomes fastest man alive (36.25 kph for 100 m).
1984 - Dolphin rocket launched off San Clemente Island.
1984 - Supreme Court rules Jaycees may be forced to admit women as member
1985 - CBS announced it would buy back 21 percent of its own stock
1986 - President Ronald Reagan presided over a ceremony in New York Harbor for the relighting of the Statue of Liberty after a $66 million restoration of the statue was completed during the 100th anniversary year of its dedication.
1988 - Persian Gulf, the U.S.S. Vincennes shot down an Iranian passenger jet that it had mistaken for a hostile Iranian fighter aircraft, 290 people killed
1989 - 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 - In Moscow, Kremlin hard-liner Yegor Ligachev received an enthusiastic reception at a Communist Party congress as he criticized reforms by President Mikhail Gorbachev.
1991 - A Fort Worth, Texas, police officer was videotaped beating a handcuffed prisoner in his patrol car (the officer was suspended, but later reinstated after a grand jury refused to indict him).
1993 - Exiled Haitian President Aristide and Lt. Gen. Raoul Cedras, who led the coup in 1991 that ousted him, announced an agreement that would put Aristide back in power by October. Cedras later broke the agreement.
1995 - Irish Republican Army sympathizers rioted in Northern Ireland's two largest cities in outrage over the early parole of a British soldier convicted of killing a Roman Catholic woman.
1996 - Russians went to the polls to re-elect Boris Yeltsin president over his Communist challenger, Gennady Zyuganov, in a runoff.
1996 - A blaze destroyed a fireworks store in Scottown, Ohio, filled with Fourth of July shoppers, killing nine people and injuring 11.
1997 - Germany abolishes Internet anonymity The German parliament approved a measure to regulate the Internet and track the identity of people sending material through the Web
1997 - Mississippi becomes 1st state to settle tobacco suit
1998 - A U.S. district court ruled that encryption software did not qualify for protection under the First Amendment.
1999 - President Bill Clinton, acting to head off potential problems with the safety of imported food, said he was ordering inspectors at American ports to brand all unsafe and rejected food products as refused by the U.S.
2000 - A 1970's steel observation tower that preservationists said had desecrated the battlefield of Gettysburg in Pennsylvania was demolished.
2000 - Blasts caused by suicide bombers in Chechnya killed at least 37 Russian soldiers.
2001 - Flashing the defiance that marked his 13 years in power, former Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic refused to enter a plea on war crimes charges in his first appearance before a U.N. tribunal at The Hague.
Birthdays Today
1423 - Louis XI, king of France (1461-83).
1567 - Samuel de Champlain, explorer (Lake Champlain)
1731 - Samuel Huntington, governor of Conn. pres. of Continental Congress.
1738 - John Singleton Copley, Mass, finest colonial American artist
1846 - Achilles Alferaki, composer
1854 - Leos Janacek, Hukvaldy Moravia Czech, composer (Foster Suite)
1870 - Richard B. Bennett, (C) 11th Canadian prime minister (1930-35).
1875 - Ernst F Sauerbruch, German Nazi surgeon
1878 - George M. Cohan (actor, singer. composer: Over There, The Yankee Doodle Boy, Give My Regards to Broadway, Mary's a Grand Old Name, You're a Grand Old Flag, Harrigan; subject of movie: Yankee Doodle Dandy, and Broadway show: George M!)
1883 - Franz Kafka, Czech author (Metamorphosis The Trial Amerika)
1906 - Francis Steegmuller, biographer.
1906 - George Sanders (Academy Award-winning actor: All About Eve [1950]; The Quiller Memorandum, Picture of Dorian Gray, Village of the Damned, A Shot in the Dark, Samson and Delilah)
1909 - Earl Butz, former US secretary of agriculture.
1909 - Stavros Niachos, Greece, shipping magnate
1913 - Dorothy Kilgallen,
1915 - Jerry Gray (arranger, bandleader: The Glenn Miller Orchestra)
1921 - Susan Peters (Carnahan) (actress: Andy Hardy's Double Life, Random Harvest)
1927 - Ken Russell (director: Women in Love, The Music Lovers, Altered States, Tommy, The Boy Friend, Prisoner of Honor)
1930 - Carlos Kleiber, Berlin Germany, conductor (Bavarian State Orch)
1930 - Pete Fountain (clarinetist: New Orleans jazz great; Lawrence Welk Show, For the First Time)
1935 - Harrison H. (Jack) Schmitt, US astronaut (Apollo 17).
1937 - Tom Stoppard (Straussler) (Czech, playwright (Rosencrantz & Guildenstern-1968 Tony, The Real Thing, On the Razzle, Travesties, Empire of the Sun)
1940 - Cesar Tovar (baseball)
1940 - Fontella Bass (singer: Rescue Me)
1943 - Geraldo Rivera, [Gerry Rivers], NYC, news personality (20/20, Geraldo)
1944 - Jethro Pugh (football: Dallas Cowboys defensive tackle: Super Bowl V, VI, X, XII, XIII)
1944 - Walt Garrison (football: Dallas Cowboys running back: Super Bowl V, VI)
1945 - Johnny Lee (country singer: Lookin' for Love, One in a Million, Bet Your Heart on Me)
1945 - Michael Cole (actor: Mod Squad, Chuka, Nickel Mountain)
1945 - Paul Naumoff (football)
1947 - Betty Buckley (actress: Cats, Eight is Enough, Carrie, Wyatt Earp; singer: Memories)
1949 - Jan Smithers (actress: WKRP in Cincinnati, Mr. Nice Guy, Where the Lilies Bloom)
1951 - Jean-Claude Duvalier, [Papa Doc], deposed Haitian president-for-life
1953 - Dave Lewis (hockey)
1953 - Frank Tanana (baseball: Detroit Tigers: pitcher)
1953 - John Verhoeven (baseball)
1955 - Matt Keough (baseball)
1957 - Laura Branigan (singer: How am I Supposed to Live Without You, Gloria, Theme Song from Octopussy, Hot Night)
1957 - Laura Branigan (singer:)
1962 - Tom Cruise (Mapother) (actor: Mission: Impossible, A Few Good Men, The Firm, Days of Thunder, Born on the Fourth of July, Cocktail, Top Gun, Rain Man, Color of Money, Taps, Interview with a Vampire)
1976 - Shane Lynch, Dublin Ireland, Irish singer (Boyzone)
1986 - ?, 1st Dutch test tube baby born
Famous deaths
1570 - Antonio Paleario, Italian humanist, executed by inquisition at 67
1642 - Maria de' Medici, French queen-mother, dies at about 69
1778 - Jean-Jacques Rousseau, French writer/composer (Pygmalion), dies
1801 - Johann Nepomuk Went, composer, dies at 56
1809 - Joseph Quesne, composer, dies at 62
1816 - Dorothea Jordan, French actress/mistress (William IV), dies at 65
1863 - Alonzo Hersford Cushing, US Union lt, dies in battle at about 22
1863 - Lewis Addison Armistead, Conf brig-gen Gettysburg/dies in battle at 46
1863 - Little Crow, [Ta-oya-te-duta], Santee Sioux indian chief, dies
1863 - Richard Brooke Garnett, US Confederate brig-gen, dies in battle at 45
1863 - William Barksdale, Confederate brig-general, dies in battle at 40
1908 - Joel Chandler Harris, created Uncle Remus, dies at 59
1965 - Trigger, horse (Roy Rogers), dies at 25
1971 - Singer Jim Morrison of the Doors died of heart failure in Paris at age 27.
1978 - Ernest R. Breech, chairman of the Ford Motor Company from 1955-1960, died in Royal Oak, Michigan at the age of 81.
1984 - Raoul Salan, French general/OAS leader (Algeria), dies at 85
1986 - Rudy Vallee, one of the nation's most popular singers in the 1920s and '30 dies at 84
1989 - Andrei Gromyko, Soviet diplomat, dies just short of his 80th birthday
1989 - Jim Backus, actor (Magoo, Gilligan's Island), dies at 76 of pneumonia
1990 - Maurice Girodias, French publisher, dies at 71
1992 - Marc Tannenbaum, rabbi (only Jew to attend Vatican II)
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