Historical Events In July - 03

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

1802  On July - 03 joseph Labitzky, composer  

1806  Michael Keens exhibits first cultivated strawberry on July - 03.  

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

1809  On July - 03 joseph Quesne, composer, dies at 62  

1814  On this day in history americans capture Fort Erie, Canada  

1814  On this day in history americans capture Fort Erie Canada  

1814  On this day in history janis Cimze, composer  

1816  French frigate "Medusa" runs aground off Cap Blanc. Gross incompetence kills 150 in calm seas on July - 03.  

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 this day in history.  

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

1819  On July - 03 louis Theodore Gouvy, composer  

1821  On July - 03 f Kornberger, writer  

1828  On July - 03 john Austin Wharton, Major General (Confederate Army), died in 1865  

1839  The first state normal school in US opens, Lexington, Mass, with 3 students on this day in history.  

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

1844  On this day in history the last pair of Great Auks is killed.  

1846  Achilles Alferaki, composer on July - 03.  

1848  Slaves freed in Danish West Indies (now US Virgin Islands) on July - 03.  

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

1850  On this day in history alfredo Kiel, composer  

1852  Congress authorizes US's 2nd mint (San Francisco, Calif) on July - 03.  

1853  Commodore Matthew Perry reach Japan on July - 03.  

1855  On July - 03 piotr Maszynski, composer  

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

1861  On July - 03 pony Express arrives in SF with overland letters from NY  

1861  On July - 03 colonal Jackson receives his commission as brigadier general  

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

1862  Friedrich Ernst Koch, composer on July - 03.  

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

1863  On July - 03 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  Emperor Go-Tsuchimikado of Japan (d. 1500) was born on this day in history.  

1530  On July - 03 birth of claude Fauchet, French historian (d. 1601)  

1567  Samuel de Champlain, explorer (Lake Champlain) was born on this day in history.  

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 July - 03.  

1685  On this day in history 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  On this day in history leo II, Pope (681-83), dies  

1090  On July - 03 egbert II van Brunswick, Fries count, dies in battle  

1570  Death of Antonio Paleario, Italian humanist, executed by inquisition at 67 on July - 03.  

1642  Maria de' Medici, French queen-mother, dies at about 69 on July - 03.  

1672  Death of Francis Willughby, English biologist (b. 1635) on July - 03.  

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

1749  On July - 03 death of william Jones, Welsh mathematician (b. 1675)  

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