Historical Events In July - 03

1801  On July - 03 johann Nepomuk Went, composer, dies at 56  

1802  On July - 03 joseph Labitzky, composer  

1806  On this day in history michael Keens exhibits first cultivated strawberry  

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

1809  Joseph Quesne, composer, dies at 62 on July - 03.  

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  French frigate "Medusa" runs aground off Cap Blanc. Gross incompetence kills 150 in calm seas on this day in history.  

1816  Dorothea Jordan, French actress/mistress (William IV), dies at 65 on July - 03.  

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

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

1819  Louis Theodore Gouvy, composer on July - 03.  

1821  F Kornberger, writer on July - 03.  

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  On July - 03 john Couch Adams decides to determine the position of an unknown planet by irregularities it causes in the motion of Uranus  

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

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

1846  Achilles Alferaki, composer on this day in history.  

1848  On this day in history slaves freed in Danish West Indies (now US Virgin Islands)  

1849  The French entered Rome in order to restore Pope Pius IX to power. This would prove a major obstacle to Italian unification on July - 03.  

1850  On July - 03 alfredo Kiel, composer  

1852  On this day in history congress authorizes US's 2nd mint (San Francisco, Calif)  

1853  Commodore Matthew Perry reach Japan on this day in history.  

1855  Piotr Maszynski, composer on this day in history.  

1860  Charlotte Perkins Gilman, economist/lecturer/author/feminist on July - 03.  

1861  On this day in history pony Express arrives in SF with overland letters from NY  

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 this day in history.  

1862  On this day in history william Barksdale, Confederate brig-general, dies in battle at 40  

1863  Battle of Gettysbeurg, during the American Civil War, ends on July - 03.  

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1423  Louis XI, King of France (1461-83) was born on this day in history.  

1442  Emperor Go-Tsuchimikado of Japan (d. 1500) was born on July - 03.  

1530  Claude Fauchet, French historian (d. 1601) was born on July - 03.  

1567  On July - 03 birth of samuel de Champlain, explorer (Lake Champlain)  

1676  On July - 03 birth of leopold I, Prince of Anhalt-Dessau, Prussian field marshal (d. 1747)  

1683  On July - 03 birth of edward Young, English poet (Revenge, Complaint)  

1685  On July - 03 birth of sir Robert Rich, 4th Baronet, British cavalry officer (d. 1768)  

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 July - 03.  

1672  On this day in history death of francis Willughby, English biologist (b. 1635)  

1704  On this day in history death of sophia Alekseyevna, regent of Russia (b. 1657)  

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

1778  On this day in history jean-Jacques Rousseau, French writer/composer (Pygmalion), dies