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 185^th day of the year 2024 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 181 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Wednesday.

Under the Julian calendar, this day is June 20, 2024 – a Wednesday. Both day of the week are the same but did you notice the difference with the Gregorian calendar?

When this day started, 1,719,964,800 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 ‘hectaoctacontapentagon’ 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 210 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 4,212 days since this fabled cataclysmic event.

July 3 Historical Events

• 324 –
  Battle of Adrianople Constantine I defeats Licinius, who flees to Byzantium.
• 1608 –
  Québec City is founded by Samuel de Champlain.
• 1866 –
  Austro-Prussian War is decided at the Battle of Königgratz, resulting in Prussia taking over as the prominent German nation from Austria.
• 1886 –
  The New York Tribune becomes the first newspaper to use a linotype machine, eliminating typesetting by hand.
• 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.
• 1940 –
  World War II: the French fleet of the Atlantic based at Mers el Kébir, is bombarded by the British fleet, coming from Gibraltar, causing the loss of three battleships: Dunkerque, Provence and Bretagne. One thousand two hundred sailors perish.
• 1944 –
  World War II: Minsk is liberated from Nazi control by Soviet troops during Operation Bagration.
• 1969 –
  The biggest explosion in the history of rocketry occurs when the Soviet N-1 rocket explodes and subsequently destroys its launchpad.
• 1979 –
  U.S. President Jimmy Carter signs the first directive for secret aid to the opponents of the pro-Soviet regime in Kabul.

Who were born on July 3?

• 1518 –
  Li Shizhen, Chinese physician (d. 1593)
• 1879 –
  Alfred Korzybski, Polish linguist (d. 1950)
• 1903 –
  Ace Bailey, Canadian ice hockey player (d. 1992)
• 1906 –
  Jack Earle, American actor and sideshow performer (d. 1952)
• 1937 –
  Tom Stoppard, Czech-born, British playwright
• 1944 –
  Michel Polnareff, French singer and songwriter
• 1961 –
  Pedro Romeiras, Portuguese dancer
• 1968 –
  Aku Louhimies, Finnish film director and screenwriter
• 1970 –
  Teemu Selänne, Finnish ice hockey player
• 1973 –
  Ólafur Stefánsson, Icelandic handball player

Who died on July 3?

• 1795 –
  Antonio de Ulloa, Spanish general and governor of Louisiana (b. 1716)
• 1863 –
  George Hull Ward, American general (b. 1826)
• 1933 –
  Hipólito Yrigoyen, President of Argentina (b. 1852)
• 1937 –
  Jacob Schick, American-Canadian electric razor inventor (b. 1877)
• 1942 –
  Louis Franchet d'Espèrey, French general (b. 1856)
• 1957 –
  Dolf Luque, baseball player (b. 1890)
• 2000 –
  Kemal Sunal, Turkish actor (b. 1944)
• 2001 –
  Mordecai Richler, Canadian author (b. 1931)
• 2008 –
  Clive Hornby, English soap actor (“Emmerdale”) (b. 1944)
• 2008 –
  Oliver Schroer, Canadian fiddler and composer (b. 1956)