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
- 987 –Hugh Capet is crowned King of France, the first of the Capetian dynasty that would rule France till the French Revolution in 1792.
- 1608 –Québec City is founded by Samuel de Champlain.
- 1754 –French and Indian War: George Washington surrenders Fort Necessity to French forces.
- 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.
- 1819 –The Bank of Savings in New York City, the first savings bank in the United States, opens.
- 1844 –The last pair of Great Auks is killed.
- 1866 –Austro-Prussian War is decided at the Battle of Königgratz, resulting in Prussia taking over as the prominent German nation from Austria.
- 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 –President Franklin D. Roosevelt dedicates the Eternal Light Peace Memorial and lights the eternal flame at Gettysburg Battlefield.
- 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 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.
- 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.
- 1988 –United States Navy warship USS Vincennes shoots down Iran Air Flight 655 over the Persian Gulf, killing all 290 people aboard.
- 1996 –Stone of Scone is returned to Scotland.
- 2005 –Same-sex marriage in Spain becomes legal.
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