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Births, Deaths and Events in History - 2009-01-6
Births
1423-07-03 - King Louis XI of France (d. 1483)
1442-07-03 - Emperor Go-Tsuchimikado of Japan (d. 1500)
1530-07-03 - Claude Fauchet, French historian (d. 1601)
1567-07-03 - Samuel de Champlain, French explorer (d. 1635)
1676-07-03 - Leopold I, Prince of Anhalt-Dessau, Prussian field marshal (d. 1747)
1683-07-03 - Edward Young, English poet (d. 1765)
1685-07-03 - Sir Robert Rich, 4th Baronet, British cavalry officer (d. 1768)
1728-07-03 - Robert Adam, Scottish architect (d. 1792)
1738-07-03 - John Singleton Copley, American painter (d. 1815)
1793-07-03 - John Clare, British poet (d. 1864)
1851-07-03 - Charles Bannerman, Australian cricketer (d. 1930)
1854-07-03 - Leoš Janáček, Czech composer (d. 1928)
1870-07-03 - Richard Bedford Bennett, eleventh Prime Minister of Canada (d. 1947)
1875-07-03 - Ferdinand Sauerbruch, German surgeon (d. 1951)
1879-07-03 - Alfred Korzybski, Polish linguist (d. 1950)
1883-07-03 - Franz Kafka, Czech writer (d. 1924)
1893-07-03 - Mississippi John Hurt, American musician (d. 1966)
1903-07-03 - Ace Bailey, Canadian hockey player (d. 1992)
1906-07-03 - George Sanders, Russian-born actor (d. 1972)
1908-07-03 - M. F. K. Fisher, American writer (d. 1992)
1913-07-03 - Dorothy Kilgallen, American columnist and television personality (d. 1965)
1921-07-03 - Susan Peters, American actress (d. 1952)
1927-07-03 - Ken Russell, British director
1930-07-03 - Carlos Kleiber, Austrian conductor (d. 2004)
1930-07-03 - Tommy Tedesco, American guitarist and studio musician (d. 1997)
1935-07-03 - Harrison Schmitt, astronaut
1937-07-03 - Tom Stoppard, Czech-born playwright
1938-07-03 - Bolo Yeung, Hong Kong actor
1939-07-03 - László Kovács, Hungarian politician and diplomat
1940-07-03 - César Tovar, Venezuelan Major League Baseball player (d. 1994)
1940-07-03 - Lamar Alexander, U.S. Senator from Tennessee
1943-07-03 - Kurtwood Smith, American actor
1944-07-03 - Michel Polnareff, French singer and songwriter
1946-07-03 - Leszek Miller, Prime Minister of Poland
1947-07-03 - Dave Barry, American writer
1947-07-03 - Betty Buckley, American actress
1949-07-03 - Jan Smithers, American actress
1949-07-03 - Johnnie Wilder, Jr., American singer (Heatwave) (d. 2006)
1950-07-03 - James Hahn, American politician
1951-07-03 - Richard Hadlee, New Zealand cricketer
1952-07-03 - Alan Autry, American football player, actor, and politician
1955-07-03 - Sanma Akashiya, Japanese television performer and actor
1956-07-03 - Don Vito, of MTV's Viva La Bam
1957-07-03 - Laura Branigan, American singer (d. 2004)
1958-07-03 - Aaron Tippin, American singer
1959-07-03 - Julie Burchill, British journalist and author
1959-07-03 - Stephen Pearcy, American singer (Ratt)
1960-07-03 - Vince Clarke, British songwriter (Depeche Mode, Yazoo, and Erasure)
1961-07-03 - Pedro Romeiras, Portuguese dancer
1961-07-03 - Tim Smith, English musician (Cardiacs)
1962-07-03 - Tom Cruise, American actor
1964-07-03 - Joanne Harris, British author
1964-07-03 - Yeardley Smith, American actress
1965-07-03 - Shinya Hashimoto, Japanese wrestler (d. 2005)
1966-07-03 - Moises Alou, baseball player
1969-07-03 - Kevin Hearn, Canadian keyboardist (Barenaked Ladies)
1970-07-03 - Teemu Selänne, Finnish hockey player
1970-07-03 - Shawnee Smith, American actress
1970-07-03 - Serhiy Honchar, Ukrainian cyclist
1973-07-03 - Johnny Terris, Canadian-born actor and director
1976-07-03 - Andrea Barber, American actress
1979-07-03 - Ludivine Sagnier, French actress
1980-07-03 - Roland Mark Schoeman, South African swimmer
1982-07-03 - [[Sameer Datta], Website Developer.
1986-07-03 - Oscar Ustari, Argentine footballer
1987-07-03 - Sebastian Vettel, German racing driver
Bizarre
2006-07-03 - Compliment Your Mirror Day
2006-07-03 - Disobedience Day
2006-07-03 - Stay out of the Sun Day
2007-07-03 - Compliment Your Mirror Day
2007-07-03 - Disobedience Day
2007-07-03 - Stay out of the Sun Day
Deaths
1570-07-03 - Aonio Paleario, Italian humanist
1642-07-03 - Maria de' Medici, wife of Henry IV of France (b. 1573)
1672-07-03 - Francis Willughby, English biologist (b. 1635)
1704-07-03 - Sophia Alekseyevna, regent of Russia (b. 1657)
1749-07-03 - William Jones, Welsh mathematician (b. 1675)
1778-07-03 - Anna Maria Walburga Mozart née Pertl, mother of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (b. 1720)
1790-07-03 - Jean-Baptiste L. Romé de l'Isle, French chemist (b. 1736)
1795-07-03 - Louis-Georges de Bréquigny, French historian (b. 1714)
1795-07-03 - Antonio de Ulloa, Spanish general and governor of Louisiana (b. 1716)
1858-07-03 - Alexander Andreyevich Ivanov, Russian painter (b. 1806)
1863-07-03 - George Hull Ward, American general (b. 1826)
1904-07-03 - Theodor Herzl, Austrian Zionist (b. 1860)
1914-07-03 - Joseph Chamberlain, British politician (b. 1836)
1918-07-03 - Sultan Mehmed V of the Ottoman Empire (b. 1844)
1933-07-03 - Hipólito Yrigoyen, President of Argentina (b. 1852)
1935-07-03 - André Citroën, French automobile pioneer (b. 1878)
1942-07-03 - Louis Franchet d'Espèrey, French general (b. 1856)
1957-07-03 - Dolf Luque, baseball player (b. 1890)
1969-07-03 - Brian Jones, English musician (The Rolling Stones) (drowned) (b. 1942)
1971-07-03 - Jim Morrison, American singer (The Doors) (b. 1943)
1977-07-03 - Alexander M. Volkov, Russian novelist and mathematician (b. 1891)
1979-07-03 - Louis Durey, French composer (b. 1888)
1986-07-03 - Rudy Vallee, American singer (b. 1901)
1989-07-03 - Jim Backus, American actor (b. 1913)
1993-07-03 - Joe DeRita, American actor and comedian (b. 1909)
1993-07-03 - Don Drysdale, baseball player (b. 1936)
1994-07-03 - Lew Hoad, Australian tennis player (b. 1934)
1995-07-03 - Pancho Gonzales, American tennis player (b. 1928)
1998-07-03 - Danielle Bunten Berry, American software developer (b. 1949)
1999-07-03 - Mark Sandman, American musician (b. 1952)
2000-07-03 - Kemal Sunal, Turkish actor (b. 1944)
2001-07-03 - Mordecai Richler, Canadian author (b. 1931)
2003-07-03 - Gaetano Alibrandi, Papal diplomat (b. 1914)
2004-07-03 - Andrian Nikolayev, cosmonaut (b. 1929)
2005-07-03 - Alberto Lattuada, Italian film director (b. 1914)
2005-07-03 - Gaylord Nelson, U.S. Senator from Wisconsin (b. 1916)
2006-07-03 - Benjamin Hendrickson, American actor (b. 1950)
Declared
2007-07-03 - Start of the Dog Days
2007-07-03 - National holiday in Belarus
2007-07-03 - 4.1 Liturgical Feast days
Events
2031-07-03 - Crispus and Constantine II, sons of Roman Emperor Constantine I, and Licinius iunior, son of Emperor Licinius, are made Caesares
1971-07-03 - Battle of Vincy between Charles Martel and Ragenfrid.
2005-07-03 - The national law legalizing same-sex marriage takes effect in Spain.
2006-07-03 - Asteroid labeled as 2004 XP14 flies by Earth's atmosphere.
1250-07-03 - Louis IX of France is captured by Baibars' Mamluk army at the Battle of Fariskur while he is in Egypt conducting the Seventh Crusade; he later has to ransom himself.
1608-07-03 - Quebec City founded by Samuel de Champlain.
1754-07-03 - French and Indian War: George Washington surrenders Fort Necessity to French forces.
1775-07-03 - American Revolutionary War: George Washington takes command of the Continental Army at Cambridge, Massachusetts.
1778-07-03 - American Revolutionary War: British forces massacre 360 men, women & children in the Wyoming Valley massacre.
1778-07-03 - Prussia declares war on Austria.
1819-07-03 - The first savings bank in the United States (The Bank of Savings in New York City) opens.
1839-07-03 - The first state normal school in the United States, the forerunner to today's Framingham State College, opens in Lexington, Massachusetts with 3 students.
1844-07-03 - The last pair of Great Auks is killed.
1848-07-03 - Slaves are freed in the Danish West Indies (now U.S. Virgin Islands).
1849-07-03 - The French entered Rome in order to restore Pope Pius IX to power. This would prove a major obstacle to Italian unification.
1852-07-03 - Congress establishes the United States's 2nd mint in San Francisco, California.
1863-07-03 - U.S. Civil War: The final day of the Battle of Gettysburg.
1866-07-03 - Austro-Prussian War is decided at the Battle of Königgratz, resulting in Prussia taking over as the prominent German nation from Austria.
1884-07-03 - Dow Jones published its 1st stock average.
1886-07-03 - The New York Tribune becomes the first newspaper to use a linotype machine, eliminating typesetting by hand.
1890-07-03 - Idaho is admitted as the 43rd U.S. state.
1898-07-03 - Spanish fleet, led by Pascual Cervera y Topete, destroyed by the U.S. Army in Santiago, Cuba during the Spanish-American War.
1928-07-03 - First color television broadcast in London.
1938-07-03 - World speed record for a steam railway locomotive is set in England, by the Mallard, which reaches a speed of 203 km/h (126 mph).
1944-07-03 - World War II: Minsk was liberated from Nazi control by Soviet troops during Operation Bagration.
1952-07-03 - Puerto Rico's Constitution is approved by the Congress of the United States.
1962-07-03 - The Algerian War of Independence against the French ends.
1970-07-03 - A British Dan-Air De Havilland Comet chartered jetliner crashes into mountains north of Barcelona, Spain killing 113 people.
1976-07-03 - Israeli commandos rescue 105 hostages at Entebbe Airport, Uganda during Operation Yonatan.
1977-07-03 - The Senegalese Republican Movement (MRS) is founded.
1979-07-03 - US President Jimmy Carter signs the first directive for secret aid to the opponents of the pro-Soviet regime in Kabul.
1985-07-03 - Back to the Future debuts in theaters all over the U.S.
1986-07-03 - US President Ronald Reagan presides over the relighting of the renovated Statue of Liberty.
1988-07-03 - United States Navy warship USS Vincennes shoots down Iran Air Flight 655 over the Persian Gulf, killing all 290 people aboard.
2001-07-03 - A Vladivostok Avia Tupolev TU-154 jetliner crashes on approach to landing at Irkutsk, Russia killing 145 people.
2004-07-03 - Official opening of Bangkok's subway system.
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