Historical Events For July - 03

1801  Johann Nepomuk Went, composer, dies at 56 on this day in history.  

1802  On July - 03 joseph Labitzky, composer  

1806  Michael Keens exhibits first cultivated strawberry on this day in history.  

1806  Michael Keens exhibits 1st cultivated strawberry on July - 03.  

1809  Joseph Quesne, composer, dies at 62 on this day in history.  

1814  Americans capture Fort Erie, Canada on this day in history.  

1814  Americans capture Fort Erie Canada on July - 03.  

1814  Janis Cimze, composer on July - 03.  

1816  On this day in history french frigate "Medusa" runs aground off Cap Blanc. Gross incompetence kills 150 in calm seas  

1816  Dorothea Jordan, French actress/mistress (William IV), dies at 65 on this day in history.  

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1819  On July - 03 the first bank in the U.S. opened in New York City. Business was brisk with $2,807 deposited in the Bank for Savings.  

1819  On this day in history 1st savings bank in US (Bank of Savings in NYC) opens its doors  

1819  On this day in history louis Theodore Gouvy, composer  

1821  On this day in history f Kornberger, writer  

1828  On this day in history john Austin Wharton, Major General (Confederate Army), died in 1865  

1839  On July - 03 the first state normal school in US opens, Lexington, Mass, with 3 students  

1839  1st state normal school in US opens, Lexington, Mass, with 3 students on July - 03.  

1841  John Couch Adams decides to determine the position of an unknown planet by irregularities it causes in the motion of Uranus on July - 03.  

1841  On this day in history john Couch Adams decides to determine position of an unknown planet by irregularities it causes in the motion of Uranus  

1844  On July - 03 the last pair of Great Auks is killed.  

1846  Achilles Alferaki, composer on July - 03.  

1848  On July - 03 slaves freed in Danish West Indies (now US Virgin Islands)  

1849  On this day in history the French entered Rome in order to restore Pope Pius IX to power. This would prove a major obstacle to Italian unification.  

1850  On July - 03 alfredo Kiel, composer  

1852  Congress authorizes US's 2nd mint (San Francisco, Calif) on this day in history.  

1853  On July - 03 commodore Matthew Perry reach Japan  

1855  Piotr Maszynski, composer on July - 03.  

1860  On this day in history charlotte Perkins Gilman, economist/lecturer/author/feminist  

1861  Pony Express arrives in SF with overland letters from NY on this day in history.  

1861  Colonal Jackson receives his commission as brigadier general on this day in history.  

1861  Peter Jackson, heavyweight boxer (hall of famer) on this day in history.  

1862  Friedrich Ernst Koch, composer on July - 03.  

1862  William Barksdale, Confederate brig-general, dies in battle at 40 on July - 03.  

1863  On this day in history battle of Gettysbeurg, during the American Civil War, ends  

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1423  Louis XI, King of France (1461-83) was born on July - 03.  

1442  On this day in history birth of emperor Go-Tsuchimikado of Japan (d. 1500)  

1530  Claude Fauchet, French historian (d. 1601) was born on this day in history.  

1567  Samuel de Champlain, explorer (Lake Champlain) was born on July - 03.  

1676  Leopold I, Prince of Anhalt-Dessau, Prussian field marshal (d. 1747) was born on July - 03.  

1683  Edward Young, English poet (Revenge, Complaint) was born on this day in history.  

1685  Sir Robert Rich, 4th Baronet, British cavalry officer (d. 1768) was born on July - 03.  

1687  On this day in history birth of arnold Hoogvliet, Dutch poet (Abraham the Patriarch)  

0683  Leo II, Pope (681-83), dies on this day in history.  

1090  Egbert II van Brunswick, Fries count, dies in battle on this day in history.  

1570  On July - 03 death of antonio Paleario, Italian humanist, executed by inquisition at 67  

1642  Maria de' Medici, French queen-mother, dies at about 69 on this day in history.  

1672  On July - 03 death of francis Willughby, English biologist (b. 1635)  

1704  Death of Sophia Alekseyevna, regent of Russia (b. 1657) on July - 03.  

1749  On this day in history death of william Jones, Welsh mathematician (b. 1675)  

1778  Jean-Jacques Rousseau, French writer/composer (Pygmalion), dies on July - 03.