Historical Events For July - 03

1801  Johann Nepomuk Went, composer, dies at 56 on July - 03.  

1802  On July - 03 joseph Labitzky, composer  

1806  On July - 03 michael Keens exhibits first cultivated strawberry  

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

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

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

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

1814  Janis Cimze, composer on July - 03.  

1816  On July - 03 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  1st savings bank in US (Bank of Savings in NYC) opens its doors on July - 03.  

1819  On July - 03 louis Theodore Gouvy, composer  

1821  On July - 03 f Kornberger, writer  

1828  John Austin Wharton, Major General (Confederate Army), died in 1865 on July - 03.  

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  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 July - 03.  

1844  On this day in history 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  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 July - 03 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  On this day in history piotr Maszynski, composer  

1860  On July - 03 charlotte Perkins Gilman, economist/lecturer/author/feminist  

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

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

1861  On this day in history peter Jackson, heavyweight boxer (hall of famer)  

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  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 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 July - 03.  

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 July - 03.  

1685  On this day in history birth of sir Robert Rich, 4th Baronet, British cavalry officer (d. 1768)  

1687  Arnold Hoogvliet, Dutch poet (Abraham the Patriarch) was born on July - 03.  

0683  On this day in history leo II, Pope (681-83), dies  

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

1570  On this day in history 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  On July - 03 death of francis Willughby, English biologist (b. 1635)  

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

1749  Death of William Jones, Welsh mathematician (b. 1675) on July - 03.  

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