July 03

Sunday 03, 2005:

Part of Australia's Twelve Apostles rock formation collapses. The national law legalizing same-sex marriage takes effect in Spain.

Saturday 03, 2004:

Official opening of Bangkok's subway system.

Tuesday 03, 2001:

A Vladivostokavia Tupolev TU-154 jetliner crashes on approach to landing at Irkutsk, Russia killing 145 people.

Sunday 03, 1994:

Romania eliminates Argentina 3-2 in the World Cup.

Saturday 03, 1993:

Steffi Graf wins Wimbledon.

Sunday 03, 1988:

United States Navy warship USS Vincennes shoots down Iran Air Flight 655 over the Persian Gulf, killing all 290 people aboard.

Tuesday 03, 1979:

US President Jimmy Carter signs the first directive for secret aid to the opponents of the pro-Soviet regime in Kabul.

Sunday 03, 1977:

The Senegalese Republican Movement (MRS) is founded.

Saturday 03, 1976:

Israeli commandos rescue 105 hostages at Entebbe Airport, Uganda during Operation Yonatan.

Saturday 03, 1971:

Singer Jim Morrison of The Doors is found dead of a heart attack in his bathtub.

Friday 03, 1970:

A British Dan-Air De Havilland Comet chartered jetliner crashes into mountains north of Barcelona, Spain killing 112 people.

Thursday 03, 1969:

Rolling Stones guitarist Brian Jones drowns in his swimming pool. The band plays a concert at Hyde Park, London two days later in his honor.

Friday 03, 1964:

President Lyndon B. Johnson signs the Civil Rights Act of 1964, which prohibits segregation in public places.

Tuesday 03, 1962:

The Algerian War of Independence against the French ends

Thursday 03, 1952:

Puerto Rico's Constitution is approved by the Congress of the United States.

Sunday 03, 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).

Sunday 03, 1932:

First Sunday game at Fenway Park, the New York Yankees beat the Boston Red Sox 13-2, and John McGraw retires from baseball.

Tuesday 03, 1928:

First color television broadcast in London.

Thursday 03, 1890:

Idaho is admitted as the 43rd U.S. state.

Saturday 03, 1886:

The New York Tribune becomes the first newspaper to use a linotype machine, eliminating typesetting by hand.

Thursday 03, 1884:

Dow Jones published its 1st stock average.

Tuesday 03, 1866:

Austro-Prussian War decided at Battle of Königgratz, resulting in Prussia taking over as the prominent German nation from Austria.

Friday 03, 1863:

U.S. Civil War: The final and bloodiest day of the Battle of Gettysburg.

Saturday 03, 1852:

Congress establishes the United States's 2nd mint in San Francisco, California.

Monday 03, 1848:

Slaves are freed in the Danish West Indies (now U.S. Virgin Islands).

Wednesday 03, 1844:

The last pair of Great Auks is killed.

Wednesday 03, 1839:

The first state normal school in the United States opens in Lexington, Massachusetts with 3 students.

Saturday 03, 1819:

The first savings bank in the United States (The Bank of Savings in New York City) opens.

Friday 03, 1778:

British forces massacre 360 men, women & children in Wyoming, Pa, and Prussia declares war on Austria.

Monday 03, 1775:

George Washington takes command of the Continental Army at Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Wednesday 03, 1754:

George Washington surrenders Fort Necessity to French forces during the French and Indian War.

Thursday 03, 1608:

Quebec City founded by Samuel de Champlain.

Sunday 03, 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.

Tuesday 03, 987:

Hugh Capet was crowned King of France, the first of the Capetian dynasty which ruled France till the French Revolution in 1792.

Friday 03, 533:

Battle of Ad Decimum: Byzantine general Belisarius defeats the Vandals near Carthage.

Tuesday 03, 323:

Battle of Adrianople Constantine I defeats Licinius, who flees to Byzantium

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