Historical Events In July - 03

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

1802  Joseph Labitzky, composer on this day in history.  

1806  Michael Keens exhibits first cultivated strawberry on this day in history.  

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

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

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

1814  On July - 03 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  Dorothea Jordan, French actress/mistress (William IV), dies at 65 on July - 03.  

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

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  Alfredo Kiel, composer on July - 03.  

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  On July - 03 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  Colonal Jackson receives his commission as brigadier general on this day in history.  

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

1862  Friedrich Ernst Koch, composer on this day in history.  

1862  William Barksdale, Confederate brig-general, dies in battle at 40 on this day in history.  

1863  On this day in history battle of Gettysbeurg, during the American Civil War, ends  

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1423  On July - 03 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 July - 03 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  Edward Young, English poet (Revenge, Complaint) was born on this day in history.  

1685  Sir Robert Rich, 4th Baronet, British cavalry officer (d. 1768) was born on this day in history.  

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

0683  On July - 03 leo II, Pope (681-83), dies  

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

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

1778  On July - 03 jean-Jacques Rousseau, French writer/composer (Pygmalion), dies