Major Events
- 324 Battle of Adrianople: Roman Emperor Constantine I defeats his co-emperor Licinius, who flees to Byzantium
- 1863 Battle of Gettysburg, the largest battle ever fought on the American continent, ends in a major victory for the Union during the US Civil War
- 1884 Dow Jones publishes its first stock index, the Dow Jones Transportation Average
- 1996 UK House of Commons announces that the Stone of Scone, aka the Stone of Destiny, used in the coronation of Scottish (and subsequently English and British monarchs), will be returned to Scotland after 700 years in Westminster Abbey
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Jul 3 in Film & TV
- 1928 John Logie Baird demonstrates the first colour television transmission in London
Jul 3 in Music
- 2018 Cardi B becomes first female rapper to get two number one US Billboard hits, with "I Like It" with Bad Bunny and J Balvin
Jul 3 in Sport
- 1976 Wimbledon Men's Tennis: Sweden's Björn Borg beats Ilie Năstase of Romania 6-4, 6-2, 9-7 for the first of 5 straight Wimbledon titles
Did You Know?
Intergovernmental Conference on Identity Certificates for Russian Refugees, convened by Fridtjof Nansen in Geneva, creates the Nansen passports (for stateless persons)
Louis XI
Samuel de Champlain
Richard Bedford Bennett
Franz Kafka
Jean-Claude Duvalier
Julian Assange
George M. Cohan
Tom Stoppard
Tom Cruise
Audra McDonald
Olivia Munn
Leoš Janáček
Richard Hadlee
Moises Alou
Sebastian Vettel
Fun Fact About July 3
Common tern banded in Maine; found dead in 1919 in Africa (1st bird known to have crossed the Atlantic)
Famous Weddings
- 1468 Duke of Burgundy Charles the Bold marries third wife English Princess Margaret of York
- 1920 Film director John Ford (26) weds Mary Smith (25)
- 1951 Author Maya Angelou (23) weds Thomas J. Angelos
Famous Divorces
- 1929 American Playwright Eugene O'Neill divorces second wife novelist Agnes Boulton after 11 years of marriage
More July 3 Weddings
Theodor Herzl
Hetty Green
Hipólito Yrigoyen
Brian Jones
Jim Morrison
Lew Hoad
