Historical Events For July - 03

1801  On this day in history johann Nepomuk Went, composer, dies at 56  

1802  On this day in history joseph Labitzky, composer  

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

1806  On this day in history michael Keens exhibits 1st cultivated strawberry  

1809  On this day in history joseph Quesne, composer, dies at 62  

1814  Americans capture Fort Erie, Canada on July - 03.  

1814  On this day in history americans capture Fort Erie Canada  

1814  Janis Cimze, composer on July - 03.  

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

1816  On this day in history dorothea Jordan, French actress/mistress (William IV), dies at 65  

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

1819  On July - 03 louis Theodore Gouvy, composer  

1821  F Kornberger, writer on July - 03.  

1828  John Austin Wharton, Major General (Confederate Army), died in 1865 on this day in history.  

1839  On this day in history the first state normal school in US opens, Lexington, Mass, with 3 students  

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

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

1844  The last pair of Great Auks is killed on July - 03.  

1846  On July - 03 achilles Alferaki, composer  

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  On July - 03 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 July - 03.  

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

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 July - 03.  

1862  On this day in history friedrich Ernst Koch, composer  

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  On this day in history birth of louis XI, King of France (1461-83)  

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

1530  On this day in history birth of claude Fauchet, French historian (d. 1601)  

1567  On this day in history birth of samuel de Champlain, explorer (Lake Champlain)  

1676  On this day in history 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  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  On July - 03 leo II, Pope (681-83), dies  

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  On July - 03 maria de' Medici, French queen-mother, dies at about 69  

1672  Death of Francis Willughby, English biologist (b. 1635) on this day in history.  

1704  On July - 03 death of sophia Alekseyevna, regent of Russia (b. 1657)  

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

1778  Jean-Jacques Rousseau, French writer/composer (Pygmalion), dies on this day in history.