Historical Events Happened In July - 03

1801  On this day in history 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  On this day in history michael Keens exhibits 1st cultivated strawberry  

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 this day in history.  

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 this day in history.  

1816  On July - 03 dorothea Jordan, French actress/mistress (William IV), dies at 65  

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

1819  Louis Theodore Gouvy, composer on July - 03.  

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

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  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 this day in history.  

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  Alfredo Kiel, composer on this day in history.  

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

1853  On this day in history commodore Matthew Perry reach Japan  

1855  On this day in history piotr Maszynski, composer  

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

1861  Pony Express arrives in SF with overland letters from NY on July - 03.  

1861  Colonal Jackson receives his commission as brigadier general on July - 03.  

1861  On July - 03 peter Jackson, heavyweight boxer (hall of famer)  

1862  Friedrich Ernst Koch, composer on July - 03.  

1862  On July - 03 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 this day in history.  

1442  On July - 03 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 July - 03.  

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 July - 03.  

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

1570  Death of Antonio Paleario, Italian humanist, executed by inquisition at 67 on this day in history.  

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  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 July - 03 jean-Jacques Rousseau, French writer/composer (Pygmalion), dies