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 185th 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, 477,768 hours 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.
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July 3 Historical Events
- 324 –Battle of Adrianople Constantine I defeats Licinius, who flees to Byzantium.
- 1767 –Norway’s oldest newspaper still in print, Adresseavisen, is founded and the first edition is published.
- 1844 –The last pair of Great Auks is killed.
- 1863 –American Civil War: The final day of the Battle of Gettysburg culminates with Pickett’s Charge.
- 1886 –The New York Tribune becomes the first newspaper to use a linotype machine, eliminating typesetting by hand.
- 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.
- 1952 –The Constitution of Puerto Rico is approved by the Congress of the United States.
- 1969 –The biggest explosion in the history of rocketry occurs when the Soviet N-1 rocket explodes and subsequently destroys its launchpad.
- 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.
Who were born on July 3?
- 1738 –John Singleton Copley, American painter (d. 1815)
- 1875 –Ferdinand Sauerbruch, German surgeon (d. 1951)
- 1888 –Ramón Gómez de la Serna, Spanish writer (d. 1963)
- 1941 –Gloria Allred, American Attorney
- 1942 –Eddy Mitchell, French singer and actor
- 1956 –Don Vito, American Viva La Bam castmember
- 1984 –Syed Rasel, Bangladeshi cricketer
- 1986 –Greg Paulus, American basketball and football player
- 1989 –Godfrey Walusimbi, Ugandan footbller
- 1990 –Bobby Hopkinson, English footballer
Who died on July 3?
- 1570 –Aonio Paleario, Italian humanist
- 1749 –William Jones, Welsh mathematician (b. 1675)
- 1795 –Antonio de Ulloa, Spanish general and governor of Louisiana (b. 1716)
- 1933 –Hipólito Yrigoyen, President of Argentina (b. 1852)
- 1935 –André Citroën, French automobile pioneer (b. 1878)
- 1969 –Brian Jones, English musician (The Rolling Stones) (b. 1942)
- 1977 –Alexander M. Volkov, Russian novelist and mathematician (b. 1891)
- 1994 –Lew Hoad, Australian tennis player (b. 1934)
- 2001 –Mordecai Richler, Canadian author (b. 1931)
- 2007 –Alice Timander, Swedish dentist (b. 1915)
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