Page 2: Historical Events In July - 03

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

1802  Joseph Labitzky, composer on July - 03.   

1806  On this day in history michael Keens exhibits first cultivated strawberry   

1806  Michael Keens exhibits 1st cultivated strawberry on this day in history.   

1809  Joseph Quesne, composer, dies at 62 on July - 03.   

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

1814  Americans capture Fort Erie Canada on July - 03.   

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 this day in history.   

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 this day in history.   

1819  On this day in history louis Theodore Gouvy, composer   

1821  F Kornberger, writer on this day in history.   

1828  On July - 03 john Austin Wharton, Major General (Confederate Army), died in 1865   

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

1839  1st state normal school in US opens, Lexington, Mass, with 3 students on this day in history.   

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 July - 03 the last pair of Great Auks is killed.   

1846  On this day in history achilles Alferaki, composer   

1848  Slaves freed in Danish West Indies (now US Virgin Islands) on July - 03.   

1849  The French entered Rome in order to restore Pope Pius IX to power. This would prove a major obstacle to Italian unification on this day in history.   

1850  Alfredo Kiel, composer on July - 03.   

1852  Congress authorizes US's 2nd mint (San Francisco, Calif) on July - 03.   

1853  On July - 03 commodore Matthew Perry reach Japan   

1855  On this day in history piotr Maszynski, composer   

1860  Charlotte Perkins Gilman, economist/lecturer/author/feminist on this day in history.   

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  Friedrich Ernst Koch, composer on this day in history.   

1862  William Barksdale, Confederate brig-general, dies in battle at 40 on July - 03.   

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 July - 03 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 July - 03 birth of samuel de Champlain, explorer (Lake Champlain)   

1676  On July - 03 birth of leopold I, Prince of Anhalt-Dessau, Prussian field marshal (d. 1747)   

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

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

1570  Death of Antonio Paleario, Italian humanist, executed by inquisition at 67 on July - 03.   

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 this day in history.   

1749  On this day in history death of william Jones, Welsh mathematician (b. 1675)   

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