About July 3
July 3, 2021 is the 184th day of the year 2021 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 181 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Saturday.
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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 213 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.
- 1767 –Norway’s oldest newspaper still in print, Adresseavisen, is founded and the first edition is published.
- 1775 –American Revolutionary War: George Washington takes command of the Continental Army at Cambridge, Massachusetts.
- 1844 –The last pair of Great Auks is killed.
- 1852 –Congress establishes the United States’ 2nd mint in San Francisco, California.
- 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.
- 1884 –Dow Jones and Company publishes its first stock average.
- 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.
- 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 –World speed record for a steam railway locomotive is set in England, by the Mallard, which reaches a speed of 126 mph.
- 1952 –The Constitution of Puerto Rico is approved by the Congress of the United States.
- 1962 –The Algerian War of Independence against the French ends.
- 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.
- 1979 –U.S. President Jimmy Carter signs the first directive for secret aid to the opponents of the pro-Soviet regime in Kabul.
- 1996 –Stone of Scone is returned to Scotland.
- 2005 –Same-sex marriage in Spain becomes legal.
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