Historical Events In July - 03

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

1802  Joseph Labitzky, composer on July - 03.   

1806  On July - 03 michael Keens exhibits first cultivated strawberry   

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

1809  Joseph Quesne, composer, dies at 62 on this day in history.   

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 this day in history french frigate "Medusa" runs aground off Cap Blanc. Gross incompetence kills 150 in calm seas   

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 this day in history.   

1821  On this day in history f Kornberger, writer   

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

1839  On July - 03 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 this day in history.   

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  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 this day in history piotr Maszynski, composer   

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

1861  On this day in history pony Express arrives in SF with overland letters from NY   

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 this day in history.   

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 July - 03.   

1442  Emperor Go-Tsuchimikado of Japan (d. 1500) was born on July - 03.   

1530  Claude Fauchet, French historian (d. 1601) was born on this day in history.   

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

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 this day in history.   

1687  Arnold Hoogvliet, Dutch poet (Abraham the Patriarch) was born on this day in history.   

0683  Leo II, Pope (681-83), dies on July - 03.   

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 this day in history.   

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 this day in history.   

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