What are the important events that happened on July 3? Here are historical events, facts, and some myths about this day.

July 3: Facts & Myths About This Day

July 3 is the 184^th day of the year 2025 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 181 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Thursday.

Under the Julian calendar, this day is June 20, 2025 – a Thursday. Both day of the week are the same but did you notice the difference with the Gregorian calendar?

When this day started, 1,751,500,800 seconds has elapsed since midnight of January 1, 1970 – the Unix epoch.

Strange as it may, if we name this day after a polygon then it will be called ‘hectaoctacontatetragon’ day.

Cancer is the zodiac sign of a person born on this day. Ruby is the modern birthstone for this month. Ruby is the mystical birthstone from Tibetan origin that dates back over a thousand years.

According to the lunisolar Chinese calendar, there are 229 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.

The ancient Maya civilization believes that the end of the world will happen on December 21, 2012. There are now 4,577 days since this fabled cataclysmic event.

July 3 Historical Events

• 1767 –
  Norway’s oldest newspaper still in print, Adresseavisen, is founded and the first edition is published.
• 1778 –
  American Revolutionary War: British forces kill 360 people in the Wyoming Valley massacre.
• 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 in the culmination of a year-long plot by enslaved Africans.
• 1866 –
  Austro-Prussian War is decided at the 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.
• 1913 –
  Confederate veterans at the Great Reunion of 1913 reenact Pickett’s Charge; upon reaching the high-water mark of the Confederacy they are met by the outstretched hands of friendship from Union survivors.
• 1938 –
  President Franklin D. Roosevelt dedicates the Eternal Light Peace Memorial and lights the eternal flame at Gettysburg Battlefield.
• 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.
• 2001 –
  A Vladivostok Avia Tupolev Tu-154 jetliner crashes on approach to landing at Irkutsk, Russia killing 145 people.

Who were born on July 3?

• 1676 –
  Leopold I, Prince of Anhalt-Dessau, Prussian field marshal (d. 1747)
• 1943 –
  Judith Durham, Australian singer-songwriter
• 1947 –
  Dave Barry, American humorist and author
• 1951 –
  Richard Hadlee, New Zealand cricketer
• 1952 –
  Andy Fraser, English songwriter and bass guitarist
• 1962 –
  Hugh Page, former South African cricketer
• 1962 –
  Thomas Gibson, American actor
• 1966 –
  Moisés Alou, Dominican baseball player
• 1978 –
  Mizuki Noguchi, Japanese long-distance runner
• 1980 –
  Harbhajan Singh, Indian cricketer

Who died on July 3?

• 1795 –
  Antonio de Ulloa, Spanish general and governor of Louisiana (b. 1716)
• 1918 –
  Sultan Mehmed V of the Ottoman Empire (b. 1844)
• 1942 –
  Louis Franchet d'Espèrey, French general (b. 1856)
• 1965 –
  Trigger, Roy Rogers’ horse (b. 1932)
• 1979 –
  Louis Durey, French composer (b. 1888)
• 1997 –
  Amado Carrillo Fuentes, Mexican drug lord and leader of the Juárez Cartel (b. 1956)
• 2004 –
  Andrian Nikolayev, Soviet cosmonaut (b. 1929)
• 2005 –
  Alberto Lattuada, Italian film director (b. 1914)
• 2007 –
  Boots Randolph, American saxophonist (b. 1927)
• 2008 –
  Ernie Cooksey, English footballer (b. 1980)