About July 3
July 3, 2025 is the 184th 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.
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Cancer is the sun 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.
What Happened On July 3
- 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.
- 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.
- 1849 –The French enter Rome in order to restore Pope Pius IX to power. This would prove a major obstacle to Italian unification.
- 1863 –American Civil War: The final day of the Battle of Gettysburg culminates with Pickett’s Charge.
- 1866 –Austro-Prussian War is decided at the Battle of Königgratz, resulting in Prussia taking over as the prominent German nation from Austria.
- 1886 –Karl Benz officially unveils the Benz Patent Motorwagen – the first purpose-built automobile.
- 1886 –The New York Tribune becomes the first newspaper to use a linotype machine, eliminating typesetting by hand.
- 1898 –Spanish-American War: The Spanish fleet, led by Pascual Cervera y Topete, is destroyed by the U.S. Navy in Santiago, Cuba.
- 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.
- 1952 –The SS United States sets sail on her maiden voyage to Southampton. During the voyage, the ship takes the Blue Riband away from the RMS Queen Mary.
- 1962 –The Algerian War of Independence against the French ends.
- 1969 –The biggest explosion in the history of rocketry occurs when the Soviet N-1 rocket explodes and subsequently destroys its launchpad.
- 1970 –A British Dan-Air De Havilland Comet chartered jetliner crashes into mountains north of Barcelona, Spain killing 113 people.
- 1979 –U.S. President Jimmy Carter signs the first directive for secret aid to the opponents of the pro-Soviet regime in Kabul.
- 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.
- 1994 –The deadliest day in Texas traffic history, according to the Texas Department of Public Safety. Forty-six people are killed in crashes.
- 2005 –Same-sex marriage in Spain becomes legal.
- 2006 –Valencia metro accident leaves 43 dead in Valencia, Spain.
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