What are the important events that happened on July 3? Here are historical events, facts, and some myths about this day.
July 3: Facts & Myths About This Day
July 3 is the 185th day of the year 2024 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 181 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Wednesday.
Under the Julian calendar, this day is June 20, 2024 – a Wednesday. Both day of the week are the same but did you notice the difference with the Gregorian calendar?
When this day started, 28,666,080 minutes has elapsed since midnight of January 1, 1970 – the Unix epoch.
Strange as it may, if we name this day after a polygon then it will be called ‘hectaoctacontapentagon’ day.
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Cancer is the zodiac 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 210 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.
The ancient Maya civilization believes that the end of the world will happen on December 21, 2012. There are now 4,212 days since this fabled cataclysmic event.
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July 3 Historical Events
- 987 –Hugh Capet is crowned King of France, the first of the Capetian dynasty that would rule France till the French Revolution in 1792.
- 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.
- 1852 –Congress establishes the United States’ 2nd mint in San Francisco, California.
- 1886 –The New York Tribune becomes the first newspaper to use a linotype machine, eliminating typesetting by hand.
- 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.
- 1996 –Stone of Scone is returned to Scotland.
- 2005 –Same-sex marriage in Spain becomes legal.
Who were born on July 3?
- 1530 –Claude Fauchet, French historian (d. 1601)
- 1886 –Raymond A. Spruance, American Navy admiral (d. 1969)
- 1906 –Jack Earle, American actor and sideshow performer (d. 1952)
- 1958 –Charlie Higson, English author and actor
- 1962 –Thomas Gibson, American actor
- 1962 –Tom Cruise, American actor
- 1965 –Connie Nielsen, Danish actress
- 1983 –Edinson Volquez, Dominican baseball player
- 1987 –Sebastian Vettel, German racing driver
- 1989 –Godfrey Walusimbi, Ugandan footbller
Who died on July 3?
- 1908 –Joel Chandler Harris, American writer (b. 1845)
- 1969 –Brian Jones, English musician (The Rolling Stones) (b. 1942)
- 1971 –Jim Morrison, American singer (The Doors) (b. 1943)
- 1977 –Alexander M. Volkov, Russian novelist and mathematician (b. 1891)
- 1978 –James Daly, American actor (b. 1918)
- 1979 –Louis Durey, French composer (b. 1888)
- 1986 –Rudy Vallee, American singer (b. 1901)
- 1997 –Amado Carrillo Fuentes, Mexican drug lord and leader of the Juárez Cartel (b. 1956)
- 2001 –Johnny Russell, American country singer and songwriter (b. 1940)
- 2006 –Joseph Goguen, American computer scientist (b. 1941)
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