On this day in History - Jul 3

• 0323 - Battle of Adrianople Constantine the Great defeats Licinius, who flees to Byzantium Byzantium
• 0533 - Battle of the Tenth Milestone: Byzantine general Belisarius defeats the Vandals near Carthage.
• 0683 - St. Leo II dies. Pope
• 0987 - Hugh Capet was crowned King of France, the first of the Capetian dynasty which ruled France till the French Revolution in 1792.
• 1187 - Saladino, Sultão do Egipto e da Síria, comandando 60.000 soldados turcos derrota os cruzados perto do Mar da Galileia. É o começo do fim dos reinos francos na Síria
• 1250 - Louis IX of France is captured by Baibars' Mamluk army at the Battle of Fariskur while he is in Egypt conducting the Seventh Crusade; he later has to ransom himself.
• 1423 - King Louis XI of France was born (d. 1483) .
• 1573 - Fundação da cidade de Córdoba (Argentina) pelo governador Jerónimo Luis de Cabrera.
• 1608 - Quebec City founded by Samuel de Champlain.
• 1683 - Edward Young was born. English poet.
• 1702 - A Áustria declarou guerra à França
• 1721 - A Dinamarca iniciou a colonização da Groenlândia
• 1728 - Robert Adam was born (d. 1792). Scottish architect.
• 1738 - John Singleton Copley was born (d. 1815). American painter.
• 1754 - George Washington surrenders Fort Necessity to French forces during the French and Indian War. He is allowed to retain his colors and march out of the fort with full honors the following day.
• 1775 - American Revolutionary War: George Washington takes command of the Continental Army at Cambridge, Massachusetts.
• 1778 - Prussia declares war on Austria.
• 1801 - Johann Went dies (b. 1745). Musician, oboe player
• 1819 - The first bank in the United States opened (The Bank of Savings in New York City)
• 1821 - Regressou a Portugal, o rei D. João VI.
• 1832 - O general Juan Antonio Lavalleja lidera uma revolução no Uruguai contra o governo de Fructuoso Rivera. A revolta fracassou.
• 1844 - The last pair of Great Auks is killed.
• 1854 - Leos Janacek was born (d. 1928). Czech composer.
• 1863 - The final and bloodiest day of the battle of Gettysburg, and the fall of the besieged Vicksburg to U.S. Grant.
• 1866 - Austro-Prussian War decided at Battle of Königgratz, resulting in Prussia taking over as the prominent German nation from Austria.
• 1870 - Richard Bedford Bennett was born (d. 1947). Eleventh Prime Minister of Canada (d. 1947)
• 1870 - Morte de José Joaquim Leite Guimarães (n. 18 Jul 1808). Barão de Nova Cintra - Portugal.
• 1875 - Ferdinand Sauerbruch was born (d. 1951). German surgeon.
• 1878 - George Cohan was born. American actor and singer.
• 1879 - Alfred Korzybski was born. Polish linguist
• 1883 - Franz Kafka was born (d. 1924). Austrian writer.
• 1888 - Ramón Gómez de la Serna was born (d. 13 Jan 1963). Spanish writer.
• 1890 - Idaho is admitted as the 43rd U.S. state.
• 1893 - Mississippi John Hurt was born (d. 1966). American musician.
• 1898 - Vitória naval da frota dos Estados Unidos sobre a frota espanhola na Baía de Santiago, em Cuba, no começo da Guerra Hispano-Americana.
• 1901 - José Lins do Rego was born. Brazilian writer.
• 1904 - Theodor Herzl dies (b. 1860). Austrian Zionist.
• 1906 - George Sanders was born (d. 25 Apr 1972). Russian-born Academy Award-winning actor: All About Eve [1950]; The Quiller Memorandum, Picture of Dorian Gray, Village of the Damned, A Shot in the Dark, Samson and Delilah
• 1908 - M. F. K. Fisher was born (d. 1992). American writer.
• 1909 - Stavros Spiros Niarchos was born (d. 1996). Ship owner.
• 1913 - Dorothy Kilgallen was born (d. 1965). American newspaper columnist, and television personality.
• 1914 - Joseph Chamberlain dies. British politician.
• 1916 - Foi assinado um Tratado de Aliança entre a Rússia e o Japão
• 1918 - Sultan Mehmed V of the Ottoman Empire dies.
• 1921 - Susan Peters was born. American actress
• 1921 - João Guedes was born. Portuguese actor.
• 1923 - Art Fowler was born. Former MLB player
• 1927 - Ken Russell was born. English director: Women in Love, The Music Lovers, Altered States, Tommy, The Boy Friend, Prisoner of Honor
• 1928 - Günter Bruno Fuchs was born (d. 1977). Writer.
• 1929 - Luis Norton Barreto Murat dies in Rio de Janeiro (b. 4 May 1861). Brazilian poet, revolutionary and abolicionist.
• 1933 - Hipólito Yrigoyen dies. President of Argentina
• 1934 - Manfred Bieler was born. Writer.
• 1935 - Harrison Schmitt was born. Astronaut
• 1935 - André Citroën dies. French automobile pioneer
• 1937 - Tom Stoppard was born. Czech-born playwright.
• 1938 - World record for a steam railway locomotive is set in England, by the "Mallard", which reaches a speed of 203 km/h (126 mph).
• 1939 - Nascimento de Helena Vaz da Silva (1939-2002). Jornalista, directora da revista O Tempo e o Modo», presidente do Centro Nacional de Cultura desde 1979, foi presidente da comissão nacional da UNESCO, de 1989 a 1995 e deputada ao Parlamento Europeu, nas listas do PSD, de 1994 a 1999.
• 1940 - A aviação britânica ataca a frota francesa ancorada na base argelina de Mers-el-Kébir. A Grã-Bretanha receava que a frota francesa fosse posta à disposição da Alemanha.
• 1940 - César Tovar was born (d. 1994). Venezuelan baseball player.
• 1940 - The legendary comedy team of Bud Abbott and Lou Costello debuted this day in 1940 with their network radio show on NBC (Who’s on First).
• 1944 - Michel Polnareff was born. French pop songwriter and singer
• 1946 - Leszek Miller was born. Prime Minister of Poland
• 1947 - Dave Barry was born. American writer
• 1947 - Betty Buckley was born. American actress.
• 1949 - Jan Smithers was born. American actress
• 1951 - Richard Hadlee was born. New Zealand cricketer
• 1952 - Alan Autry was born. Former NFL player,actor,politician
• 1953 - Linda Greenlese was born. American nurse
• 1957 - Laura Branigan was born (d. 26 Aug 2004). American singer: Gloria, Solitaire, How am I Supposed to Live Without You, Self Control, Theme Song from Octopussy, Hot Night.
• 1962 - Tom Cruise was born. American actor: Mission Impossible, A Few Good Men, The Firm, Days of Thunder, Born on the Fourth of July, Cocktail, Top Gun, Rain Man, The Color of Money, Taps, Interview with a Vampire, Jerry Maguire, Eyes Wide Shut, Mission: Impossible II, Collateral, War of the Worlds
• 1962 - Independencia de Argelia.
• 1964 - Joanne Harris was born. English author.
• 1964 - Yeardley Smith was born. American actress.
• 1966 - Moises Alou was born. Major League Baseball player.
• 1969 - Kevin Hearn was born. keyboardist (Barenaked Ladies)
• 1969 - Brian Jones dies. Musician (the Rolling Stones)
• 1970 - Teemu Selänne was born. Finnish hockey player
• 1970 - A British chartered jetliner crashes near Barcelona, Spain killing 112
• 1971 - Jim Morrison dies. Singer (The Doors)
• 1976 - Andrea Barber was born. American actress .
• 1976 - Espanha: Adolfo Suárez é nomeado Presidente do Governo.
• 1976 - Israeli commandos rescue 105 hostages at Entebbe Airport, Uganda.
• 1977 - Ludmila Richetevova was born. Tennis player.
• 1979 - Louis Durey dies. French composer
• 1986 - Rudy Vallee dies. Singer.
• 1986 - Mikhail Baryshnikov, considered by many to be the world’s greatest ballet dancer, became a U.S. citizen in ceremonies at Ellis Island, New York Harbor.
• 1988 - United States Navy warship USS Vincennes shoots down Iran Air Flight 655 over the Persian Gulf, killing all 290 people aboard.
• 1989 - Jim Backus dies. Actor
• 1993 - Joe DeRita dies. American actor and comedian
• 1995 - Pancho Gonzales dies. Tennis player
• 1998 - Danielle Bunten Berry dies. Software developer
• 1999 - Mark Sandman dies. Musician (Morphine (band)) (heart attack).
• 2000 - Kemal Sunal dies. Turkish actor
• 2001 - Mordecai Richler dies. Author
• 2001 - A Vladivostokavia Tupolev TU-154 jetliner crashes on approach to landing at Irkutsk, Russia killing 145
• 2003 - Gaetano Alibrandi dies. Papal diplomat
• 2004 - Official opening of Bangkok's subway system.
• 2004 - Andrian Nikolayev dies. Cosmonaut.
• 2004 - Exposição do fotógrafo português Fernando Lemos na Pinacoteca do Estado - São Paulo
• 2004 - A tenista russa Maria Sharapova vence Serena Williams e conquista o Torneio de Wimbledon
• 2005 - Alberto Lattuada dies (b. 1914). Italian film director.
• 2005 - Gaylord Nelson dies (b. 1916). U.S. Senator from Wisconsin.
• Start of the Dog Days
• Feast day of Saint Thomas
• Portugal: Feriado Municipal de Seia.