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 –
    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.
  • 1778 –
    American Revolutionary War: British forces kill 360 people in the Wyoming Valley massacre.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 1884 –
    Dow Jones and Company publishes its first stock average.
  • 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.
  • 1890 –
    Idaho is admitted as the 43rd U.S. state.
  • 1898 –
    Spanish-American War: The Spanish fleet, led by Pascual Cervera y Topete, is destroyed by the U.S. Navy in Santiago, Cuba.
  • 1938 –
    World speed record for a steam railway locomotive is set in England, by the Mallard, which reaches a speed of 126 mph.
  • 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.
  • 1970 –
    A British Dan-Air De Havilland Comet chartered jetliner crashes into mountains north of Barcelona, Spain killing 113 people.
  • 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.
  • 1996 –
    Stone of Scone is returned to Scotland.

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