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
- 324 –Battle of Adrianople Constantine I defeats Licinius, who flees to Byzantium.
- 1608 –Québec City is founded by Samuel de Champlain.
- 1754 –French and Indian War: George Washington surrenders Fort Necessity to French forces.
- 1767 –Norway’s oldest newspaper still in print, Adresseavisen, is founded and the first edition is published.
- 1767 –Pitcairn Island is discovered by Midshipman Robert Pitcairn on an expeditionary voyage commanded by Philip Carteret.
- 1775 –American Revolutionary War: George Washington takes command of the Continental Army at Cambridge, Massachusetts.
- 1839 –The first state normal school in the United States, the forerunner to today’s Framingham State College, opens in Lexington, Massachusetts with 3 students.
- 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.
- 1886 –Karl Benz officially unveils the Benz Patent Motorwagen – the first purpose-built automobile.
- 1890 –Idaho is admitted as the 43rd U.S. state.
- 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.
- 1970 –A British Dan-Air De Havilland Comet chartered jetliner crashes into mountains north of Barcelona, Spain killing 113 people.
- 1970 –The Troubles: the “Falls Curfew” begins in Belfast, Northern Ireland.
- 1988 –United States Navy warship USS Vincennes shoots down Iran Air Flight 655 over the Persian Gulf, killing all 290 people aboard.
- 2005 –Same-sex marriage in Spain becomes legal.
- 2006 –Valencia metro accident leaves 43 dead in Valencia, Spain.
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