July 3 historical events
324 — Battle of Adrianople (324)
The Battle of Adrianople was fought in Thrace on July 3, 324, during a Roman civil war, the second to be waged between the two emperors Constantine I and Licinius. Licinius was soundly defeated and his army suffered heavy casualties. Constantine built up military momentum, winning further battles on land and sea, eventually leading to the final defeat of Licinius at Chrysopolis.
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1157 — Siege of Baghdad (1157)
The Siege of Baghdad (1157) (Arabic: حِصَارُ بَغْدَاد, romanized: Ḥiṣāru Baghdād) was the last Seljuq attempt to capture Baghdad from the Abbasids. Caliph al-Muqtafi successfully defended his capital against the coalition armies of Seljuq Sultan Muhammad of Hamadan and Qutb ad-Din of Mosul.
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1332 — Battle of Das
The Battle of Das was fought in 1332 between the Ethiopian Empire under the command of Emperor Amda Seyon and a large Muslim coalition led by Salih of Adal. The Ethiopian army was victorious, and Salih was slain.
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1504 — Battle of Cochin
The Battle of Cochin, sometimes referred as the second siege of Cochin, was a series of confrontations, between March and July 1504, fought on land and sea, principally between the Portuguese garrison at Cochin, allied to the Trimumpara Raja, and the armies of the Zamorin of Calicut and vassal Malabari states. The celebrated heroics of the tiny Portuguese garrison, led by Duarte Pacheco Pereira, fended off an invading army several hundred times bigger.
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1535 — Diego de Almagro leaves Cuzco on an expedition towards Chile
On July 3, 1535, Diego de Almagro left Cuzco to begin an expedition towards Chile. His party first stopped at Moina, remaining there until July 20 before continuing south. The expedition later crossed the Andes; the July departure should not be confused with its later arrival in Chile.
July 3 is the departure from Cuzco, in present-day Peru, not the arrival in Chile.
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1608 — Samuel de Champlain establishes Québec City
On July 3, 1608, French explorer Samuel de Champlain established Québec City at the site of the earlier Iroquoian settlement of Stadacona.
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1642 — Battle of Barcelona
The naval battle of Barcelona was a naval engagement of the Franco-Habsburg War fought off Barcelona from 29 June to 3 July 1642 between a Spanish fleet commanded by Juan Alonso Idiáquez, Duke of Ciudad Real, and a French fleet under Jean Armand de Maillé-Brézé, Duc de Fronsac.
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1674 — Siege of Lure
The Siege of Lure of 1674 was a military engagement during the Second Conquest of Franche-Comté, involving the town of Lure, a city associated with, but independent of, the County of Burgundy (Franche-Comté). The siege took place from 1 to 3 July 1674 and pitted French forces against the Comtois and Spanish defenders, to whom the town belonged.
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1754 — Battle of Fort Necessity
The Battle of Fort Necessity (also called the Battle of the Great Meadows) took place on July 3, 1754, in what is now the mountaintop hamlet of Farmington in Fayette County, Pennsylvania. The engagement was one of the first battles of the French and Indian War and George Washington's only military surrender. The battle, along with the May 28 Battle of Jumonville Glen, contributed to a series of military escalations that resulted in the global Seven Years' War. Washington built Fort Necessity on an alpine meadow west of the summit of a pass through the Allegheny Mountains.
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1767 — Adresseavisen publishes its first issue
On July 3, 1767, the newspaper now known as Adresseavisen published its first issue in Trondheim, Norway. It began as a classified advertising publication.
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1775 — George Washington takes command of the Continental Army at Cambridge
George Washington took command of the Continental Army at Cambridge, Massachusetts. Congress had appointed him in June, and he took over forces that were already besieging the British in Boston.
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1778 — Battle of Wyoming
The Battle of Wyoming was a military engagement during the American Revolutionary War between Patriot militia and a force of Loyalist soldiers and Iroquois warriors. The battle took place in the Wyoming Valley of Pennsylvania on July 3, 1778, in what is now Luzerne County. The result was an overwhelming defeat for the Patriots. The battle is often referred to as the Wyoming Massacre because of the roughly 300 Patriot casualties, many of whom were killed by the Iroquois as they fled the battlefield or after they had been taken prisoner.
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1778 — War of the Bavarian Succession
The War of the Bavarian Succession (German: Bayerischer Erbfolgekrieg; 3 July 1778 – 13 May 1779) was a dispute between the Austrian Habsburg monarchy and an alliance of Saxony and Prussia over succession to the Electorate of Bavaria after the extinction of the Bavarian branch of the House of Wittelsbach. The Habsburgs sought to acquire Bavaria, and the alliance opposed them, favoring another branch of the Wittelsbachs.
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1808 — Battle of Lintulaks
The Battle of Lintulaks was fought between Swedish and Russian forces at Lintulaks (Lintulahti, an inn at a crossroads in the village of Kyyjärvi) in Finland on 3 July 1808 during the Finnish War.
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1810 — Action of 3 July 1810
The Action of 3 July 1810 was a minor naval engagement of the Napoleonic Wars, in which a French frigate squadron under Guy-Victor Duperré attacked and defeated a convoy of Honourable East India Company East Indiamen near the Comoros Islands. During the engagement the British convoy resisted strongly and suffered heavy casualties but two ships were eventually forced to surrender. These were the British flagship, the Windham, which held off the French squadron to allow the surviving ship Astell to escape, and the Ceylon.
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1814 — Capture of Fort Erie
The Capture of Fort Erie by American forces in 1814 was a battle in the War of 1812 between the United Kingdom and the United States. The British garrison was outnumbered but surrendered prematurely, in the view of British commanders.
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1814 — Niagara campaign
The Niagara campaign occurred in 1814 and was the final campaign launched by the United States to invade Canada during the War of 1812. The campaign was launched to counter the British offensive in the Niagara region which had been initiated with the capture of Fort Niagara in December, 1813.
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1815 — Battle of Issy
The Battle of Issy was fought on 2 and 3 July 1815 in and around the village of Issy, a short distance south west of Paris. The result was a victory for Prussian Field Marshal Prince von Blücher over a French army commanded by Marshal Davout, Prince of Eckmühl.
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1816 — 1816 Louisiana gubernatorial election
The 1816 Louisiana gubernatorial election was the second gubernatorial election to take place after Louisiana achieved statehood. Under Article III Sec 2 of the 1812 Constitution of the State of Louisiana the Governor was elected in two steps. On the first Monday in July, eligible voters went to the polls and voted. The returns were sent to the President of the Louisiana State Senate.
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1819 — Battle of Shopian
The Battle of Shopian took place on 3 July 1819 between an expeditionary force from the Sikh Empire and Jabbar Khan, the governor of the Kashmir Valley province of the Durrani Empire. It was the decisive battle during the Sikh expedition into Kashmir in 1819.
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1819 — New York City's first savings bank opens
The Bank for Savings began taking deposits at the New York Institution. Eighty people deposited money on the first day.
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1820 — 1820–21 United States House of Representatives elections
The 1820–21 United States House of Representatives elections were held on various dates in various states between July 3, 1820, and August 10, 1821. Each state set its own date for its elections to the House of Representatives before the first session of the 17th United States Congress convened on December 3, 1821. They coincided with President James Monroe winning reelection unopposed.
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1826 — 1826–27 United States House of Representatives elections
The 1826–27 United States House of Representatives elections were held on various dates in various states between July 3, 1826, and August 30, 1827. Each state set its own date for its elections to the House of Representatives before the first session of the 20th United States Congress convened on December 3, 1827. They occurred during John Quincy Adams's presidency.
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1839 — The Lexington Normal School opens with three students
A state-supported school for training teachers began classes in Lexington, Massachusetts, with three students. The institution later moved and became Framingham State University.
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1843 — 1843 New South Wales colonial election
The 1843 New South Wales colonial election was held between 15 June and 3 July 1843 and was Australia's first colonial election. This election was for 24 seats in the New South Wales Legislative Council and it was conducted in 15 single-member constituencies, two 2-member constituencies and one 5-member constituency, all with a first past the post system.
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1862 — Battle of Locust Grove
The Battle of Locust Grove was a small-scale confrontation of the American Civil War in the Indian Territory on July 3, 1862. About 250 Union troops commanded by Colonel William Weer, surprised approximately 300 Confederate troops commanded by Colonel James J. Clarkson, who were encamped near Pipe Springs. The Confederates, unable to form a battle line, were quickly dispersed into a thicket of locust trees.
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1863 — Battle of Fairfield
The Battle of Fairfield was a cavalry engagement during the Gettysburg campaign of the American Civil War. It was fought July 3, 1863, near Fairfield, Pennsylvania, concurrently with the Battle of Gettysburg, although it was not a formal part of that battle. While a minor fight by the small number of troops deployed, strategically, the Confederate victory secured the important Hagerstown Road, which Robert E. Lee's Army of Northern Virginia would use on July 5 to return to Maryland and then on to safety in Virginia.
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1863 — Pickett's Charge
Pickett's Charge was an infantry assault on July 3, 1863, during the Battle of Gettysburg. It was ordered by Confederate General Robert E. Lee as part of his plan to break through Union lines and achieve a decisive victory in the North. The charge was named after Major General George Pickett, one of the Confederate Army's division commanders.
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1864 — Battle of Lundby
The Battle of Lundby happened south of Lundby in northeast Himmerland on 3 July 1864 in the Second War of Schleswig. A Danish company of the First Regiment tried a head-on bayonet charge down a long hillside, but stopped 20 meters in front of the earth dike that the Prussians lay in cover behind. This battle was the last in the Second War of Schleswig, and resulted in great Danish losses.
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1866 — Battle of Königgrätz
The Battle of Königgrätz (or Battle of Sadová; Czech: Bitva u Hradce Králové) was the decisive battle of the Austro-Prussian War in which the Kingdom of Prussia defeated the Austrian Empire. It took place on 3 July 1866, near the Bohemian city of Hradec Králové (German: Königgrätz) and village of Sadová, now in the Czech Republic.
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1869 — The Mount Washington Cog Railway officially opens
The Mount Washington Cog Railway opened in New Hampshire. Its toothed rail gave trains the grip they needed to climb the steep route to the summit.
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1871 — United States expedition to Korea
The United States expedition to Korea, known in Korea as the Shinmiyangyo (Korean: 신미양요; Hanja: 辛未洋擾; lit. '"Western Disturbance in the Shinmi Year"'), or simply the Korean Expedition, was an American military action in Korea that took place predominantly on and around Ganghwa Island in 1871.
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1881 — Hungarian parliamentary election, 1881
Parliamentary elections were held in Hungary between 24 June and 3 July 1881. The result was a victory for the Liberal Party, which won 235 of the 413 seats.
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1886 — New York Tribune prints an editorial page set on a Linotype
The New York Tribune used Ottmar Mergenthaler's Linotype machine to compose its editorial page. The machine cast a full line of type in metal and sped up newspaper typesetting.
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1886 — Carl Benz takes his motor car on a public trial run
Benz drove his three-wheeled motor car along a street in Mannheim. The short outing gave the public a look at the gasoline-powered vehicle he had already submitted for patent protection.
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1890 — Idaho becomes the 43rd U.S. state
Idaho entered the United States as its 43rd state.
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1898 — Battle of Santiago de Cuba
The Battle of Santiago de Cuba was a decisive naval engagement that occurred on July 3, 1898, between an American fleet, led by William T. Sampson and Winfield Scott Schley, against a Spanish fleet led by Pascual Cervera y Topete, which occurred during the Spanish–American War. The significantly more powerful US Navy squadron, consisting of four battleships and two armored cruisers, decisively defeated an outgunned squadron of the Spanish Navy, consisting of four armored cruisers and two destroyers. All of the Spanish ships were sunk for no American loss.
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1901 — 1901 New South Wales state election
The 1901 New South Wales state election was held on 3 July 1901 for all of the 125 seats in the 19th New South Wales Legislative Assembly and it was conducted in single-member constituencies with a first past the post voting system. The Parliamentary Electorates Act of 1893 had conferred the right to vote on every male British subject over 21 years of age who was resident in New South Wales for a year or more.
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1904 — Foundation of Kexue Buxisuo
Song Jiaoren and others founded Kexue Buxisuo in Wuchang. It was an early local revolutionary organization.
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1908 — Young Turk Revolution
The Young Turk Revolution (July 1908; Turkish: Jön Türk Devrimi) was a constitutionalist revolution in the Ottoman Empire. Revolutionaries belonging to the Internal Committee of Union and Progress (CUP), an organization of the Young Turks movement, forced Sultan Abdul Hamid II to restore the Constitution, recall the parliament, and schedule an election.
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1914 — Simla Convention
The Simla Convention (Traditional Chinese: 西姆拉條約; Simplified Chinese: 西姆拉条约), officially the Convention Between Great Britain, China, and Tibet, was an ambiguous treaty concerning the status of Tibet negotiated by representatives of the Republic of China, Tibet and Great Britain in Simla and Delhi during 1913–1914, with the eventual signing of the Convention taking place in Simla. The Simla Convention provided that Tibet would be divided into "Outer Tibet" and "Inner Tibet".
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1916 — Finnish parliamentary election, 1916
Parliamentary elections were held in the Grand Duchy of Finland on 1 and 3 July 1916.
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1916 — Battle of Guayacanas
The Battle of Guayacanas was fought on 3 July 1916 between Dominican rebels and the United States during the United States occupation of the Dominican Republic. The Dominicans dug trenches on two hills blocking passage to Santiago and kept up single-shot fire against the automatic weapons of the Americans before the Americans drove them off. Joseph A. Glowin, a corporal, was awarded the Medal of Honor for his bravery during the action.
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1918 — Battle of Namacurra
The Battle of Namacurra, part of the East African campaign of World War I (1914–1918), was fought from 1 to 3 July 1918 in central Portuguese Mozambique, a colony of the Portuguese Republic. Portugal and the British Empire, two Allied Powers, fought the German Empire, a Central Power, at the Namacurra River at the town of Namacurra.
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1922 — Finnish parliamentary election, 1922
Parliamentary elections were held in Finland between 1 and 3 July 1922. The Social Democratic Party remained the largest in Parliament with 53 of the 200 seats. The caretaker government of Professor Aimo Cajander (Progressive), that President Kaarlo Juho Ståhlberg had appointed in June 1922, following the resignation of Prime Minister Juho Vennola (Progressive), remained in office until Kyösti Kallio formed an Agrarian-Progressive minority government in November 1922.
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1924 — The Peasant Movement Training Institute opens its first course
The first course of the Peasant Movement Training Institute opened in Guangzhou on 3 July 1924. Peng Pai served as its director. This first course was based at the Huizhou Association building, before later courses moved to other sites.
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1933 — Finnish parliamentary election, 1933
Parliamentary elections were held in Finland between 1 and 3 July 1933. The Social Democratic Party remained the largest party in Parliament with 78 of the 200 seats. However, Prime Minister Toivo Mikael Kivimäki of the National Progressive Party continued in office after the elections, supported by Pehr Evind Svinhufvud and quietly by most Agrarians and Social Democrats. They considered Kivimäki's right-wing government a lesser evil than political instability (various short-lived governments) or an attempt by the radical right to gain power. Voter turnout was 62.2%.
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1938 — Mallard sets a steam locomotive speed record
The steam locomotive Mallard reached 126 miles per hour during a test run down Stoke Bank on England's East Coast Main Line.
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1938 — The Eternal Light Peace Memorial is dedicated at Gettysburg
President Franklin D. Roosevelt spoke at the dedication of the Eternal Light Peace Memorial in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania.
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1940 — Attack on Mers-el-Kébir
The Attack on Mers-el-Kébir, part of Operation Catapult and also known as the Battle of Mers-el-Kébir, was a British naval bombardment of the French Navy (Marine nationale) at its base at Mers El Kébir on the coast of French Algeria on 3 July 1940. The raid resulted in the deaths of 1,297 French servicemen, the sinking of a battleship and the damaging of five other ships. The combined air-and-sea attack was conducted by the Royal Navy in response to the Second Armistice at Compiègne between Germany and France on 22 June, which had seen Britain's sole continental ally replaced by a collaborationist government administrated from Vichy.
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1941 — Battle of Deir ez-Zor (1941)
The Battle of Deir ez-Zor was part of the Allied invasion of Syria during the Syria-Lebanon campaign in World War II. The Battle of Deir ez-Zor is noted for the bold outflanking tactics employed by Allied field commander William "Bill" Slim of Iraq Command. These tactics presaged Slim's employment of similar tactics in 1945 while commanding the British Fourteenth Army in Burma.
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1943 — Battle of Wickham Anchorage
The Battle of Wickham Anchorage took place during the New Georgia campaign in the Solomon Islands during the Pacific War from 30 June – 3 July 1943. During the operation US Marines and US Army troops landed by ship around Oleana Bay on Vangunu Island and advanced overland towards the anchorage where they attacked a garrison of Imperial Japanese Navy and Army troops.
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1944 — Minsk offensive
The Minsk offensive (Russian: Минская наступательная операция) was part of the second phase of the Belorussian strategic offensive of the Red Army in summer 1944, commonly known as Operation Bagration. The Red Army encircled the German Fourth Army in the city of Minsk. German dictator Adolf Hitler ordered the Fourth Army to hold fast, declaring the city to be a fortified place (fester Platz) to be defended even if encircled.
World War II: The Minsk Offensive clears German troops from the city.
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1944 — Battle of Imphal
The Battle of Imphal (Meitei: Japan Laan, lit. 'Japanese invasion'), also known as the "Stalingrad of the East" in combination with Kohima, took place in the region around the city of Imphal, the capital of the state of Manipur in Northeast India from March until July 1944. Japanese armies attempted to destroy the Allied forces at Imphal and invade India, but were driven back into Burma with heavy losses.
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1950 — Birth of Zhang Kangkang
On 3 July 1950, Zhang Kangkang, a writer, was born.
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1952 — Constitution of Puerto Rico
The Constitution of the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico (Spanish: Constitución del Estado Libre Asociado de Puerto Rico, lit. 'Constitution of the Free Associated State of Puerto Rico') is the primary organizing law for the unincorporated U.S. territory of Puerto Rico, describing the duties, powers, structures, and functions of the local government of Puerto Rico and its relation with the U.S. in nine articles.
The Constitution of Puerto Rico is approved by the United States Congress.
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1952 — SS United States leaves New York on its maiden voyage
The ocean liner SS United States left New York for Southampton on its first voyage. It went on to set a transatlantic speed record during the crossing.
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1956 — 6th Berlin International Film Festival
The 6th annual Berlin International Film Festival was held from 22 June to 3 July 1956. The FIAPF granted the festival the "A status" during this year, which was previously only reserved for Cannes and Venice. The awards for the first time, were given by an international jury. The Golden Bear was awarded to Invitation to the Dance directed by Gene Kelly.
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1957 — 1957 Egyptian parliamentary election
Parliamentary elections were held in Egypt on 3 July 1957, having originally been scheduled for November 1956, but postponed due to the Suez Crisis. They were the first elections since the 1952 revolution, which saw King Farouk overthrown, the Republic of Egypt established and the approval of a new constitution in a June 1956 referendum. The new system of government banned all existing political parties except the National Union.
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1960 — 1960 Taça de Portugal final
The 1960 Taça de Portugal final was the final match of the 1959–60 Taça de Portugal, the 20th season of the Taça de Portugal, the premier Portuguese football cup competition organized by the Portuguese Football Federation (FPF). The match was played on 3 July 1960 at the Estádio Nacional in Oeiras, and opposed two Primeira Liga sides: Belenenses and Sporting CP.
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1960 — 1960 Cupa României final
The 1960 Cupa României final was the 22nd final of Romania's most prestigious football cup competition. It was disputed between Progresul București and Dinamo Obor București, and was won by Progresul București after a game with two goals. It was the first cup for Progresul București. Dinamo Obor București was the sixth club representing Divizia B which reached the Romanian Cup final.
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1962 — 12th Berlin International Film Festival
The 12th annual Berlin International Film Festival was held from 22 June to 3 July 1962. The Golden Bear was awarded to A Kind of Loving directed by John Schlesinger.
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1963 — Ar-Rashid revolt
The ar-Rashid revolt was a failed coup d'etat and uprising against the Baathist government in Iraq in July 1963. The revolt was plotted by partisans of the Iraqi Communist Party (ICP) in junction with putschist military officers. The revolt failed to spread outside Baghdad and was crushed by the Baathist government forces.
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1967 — British troops begin Operation Stirling Castle in Aden
On July 3, 1967, Britain’s Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders, commanded by Lieutenant Colonel Colin Mitchell, launched a night operation in the Crater district of Aden, in present-day Yemen.
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1970 — Dan-Air Flight 1903
Dan-Air Flight 1903 was an unscheduled international passenger service from Manchester to Barcelona, operated by Dan Air Services Limited under contract with British tour operator Clarksons Holidays, which arranged for the flight to carry a group of holidaymakers who had booked an all-inclusive package holiday with the operator. On 3 July 1970, the de Havilland Comet 4 aircraft serving the flight crashed into the wooded slopes of the Serralada del Montseny near Arbúcies, in the Province of Girona of Catalonia, Spain.
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1970 — Falls Curfew
The Falls Curfew, also called the Battle of the Falls (or Lower Falls), was a British Army operation during 3–5 July 1970 in the Falls district of Belfast, Northern Ireland. The operation began as a search for weapons in the staunchly Irish nationalist district. As the search ended, local youths attacked the British soldiers with stones and petrol bombs and the soldiers responded with CS gas.
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1971 — 1971 Indonesian legislative election
Legislative elections were held in Indonesia on 3 July 1971, the first under the New Order regime. There were ten participants; nine political parties and the "functional group" Golkar, which came first with more than 60 percent of the vote, resulting in an absolute majority in the People's Representative Council.
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1973 — 23rd Berlin International Film Festival
The 23rd Berlin International Film Festival was held from 22 June to 3 July 1973. The Golden Bear was awarded to Distant Thunder, directed by Satyajit Ray.
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1973 — David Bowie retires Ziggy Stardust at Hammersmith
On July 3, 1973, David Bowie announced at London’s Hammersmith Odeon that it was the last show of his tour. The concert marked the end of his Ziggy Stardust stage persona.
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1973 — Shamrock Rovers XI v Brazil
The Shamrock Rovers XI v Brazil association football friendly match was played in Lansdowne Road in Dublin, Ireland, on 3 July 1973 between the Brazil national team and a team billed as "Shamrock Rovers XI", made up of Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland international players. Brazil won the match 4–3; it was the first time in eight years that any team scored three goals against them.
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1977 — 1977 Coppa Italia final
The 1977 Coppa Italia final was the final of the 1976–77 Coppa Italia. The match was played on 3 July 1977 between Milan and Internazionale. Milan won 2–0. It was Milan's eighth final and fourth victory.
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1977 — 1977 Cupa României final
The 1977 Cupa României final was the 39th final of Romania's most prestigious football cup competition. It was disputed between Universitatea Craiova and Steaua București, and was won by Universitatea Craiova after a game with 3 goals. It was the first cup for Universitatea Craiova.
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1979 — US president Jimmy Carter signed a presidential finding, authorizing covert operations to aid the mujahideen against the Soviet-backed Democratic Republic of Afghanistan
Operation Cyclone was the code name for the United States Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) program to arm and finance the Afghan mujahideen in Afghanistan from 1979 to 1992, prior to and during the military intervention by the Soviet Union in support of the Democratic Republic of Afghanistan. The mujahideen were also supported by Britain's MI6, who conducted their own separate covert actions.
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1985 — Death of Philip Cheung Wing-min
On 3 July 1985, Philip Cheung Wing-min, an educator, died.
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1988 — Iran Air Flight 655
Iran Air Flight 655 was an international scheduled passenger flight from Tehran to Dubai via Bandar Abbas that was shot down on 3 July 1988 by two surface-to-air missiles fired by USS Vincennes, a United States Navy warship. The missiles hit the Iran Air aircraft, an Airbus A300, while it was flying its usual route over Iran's territorial waters in the Persian Gulf, shortly after the flight departed its stopover location, Bandar Abbas International Airport.
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1988 — Istanbul opens its second bridge across the Bosphorus
The Fatih Sultan Mehmet Bridge opened across the Bosphorus, giving Istanbul a second road crossing between its European and Asian sides.
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1990 — Operation Eagle (Sri Lanka)
Operation Eagle was a Sri Lanka Air Force operation to resupply and rescue critically wounded service personal from the old Dutch Fort of Jaffna held by the Sri Lanka Army and besieged by the LTTE on July 3, 1990. The successful rescue operation gained headlines, leading to much rejoicing island-wide and helped increase morale.
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1991 — Kiribati presidential election, 1991
Presidential elections were held in Kiribati on 3 July 1991. The result was a victory for Teatao Teannaki, who won 46.3% of the vote. Voter turnout was 73.7%.
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1995 — Saint Kitts and Nevis general election, 1995
General elections were held in Saint Kitts and Nevis on 3 July 1995. The result was a victory for the Saint Kitts and Nevis Labour Party, which won seven of the eleven seats. Voter turnout was 68.4%.
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1996 — 1996 Chadian presidential election
Presidential elections were held in Chad on 2 June 1996, with a second round on 3 July. They were the first multiparty presidential elections in the history of Chad and occurred at the end of a long transitional process after repeated delays. The elections were won by the incumbent President Idriss Déby, who easily defeated a prominent southern politician, Wadel Abdelkader Kamougué, in the second round.
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1996 — 1996 Russian presidential election
Presidential elections were held in Russia on 16 June 1996, with a second round being held on 3 July 1996. It resulted in a victory for the incumbent Russian president Boris Yeltsin, who ran as an independent politician. Yeltsin defeated the Communist Party of the Russian Federation challenger Gennady Zyuganov in the second round, receiving 54.4% of the vote. Yeltsin's second inauguration ceremony took place on 9 August 1996.
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1996 — British government announces the return of the Stone of Destiny to Scotland
The British government announced in the House of Commons that the Stone of Destiny, also known as the Stone of Scone, would return to Scotland. The stone itself was moved later that year.
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1998 — Kijevo offensive
The Kijevo offensive, also known as the siege of Kijevo, was a military operation during the Kosovo War conducted by Yugoslav forces and Special Operations Units led by Milorad Ulemek. The goal was to secure a connection to the highway. Various clashes occurred, and Yugoslav Troops succeeded in driving Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA) out of Kijevo and the surrounding areas.
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2003 — UNESCO adds Beijing’s Ming Tombs to the World Heritage List
At a meeting in Paris, the World Heritage Committee extended the existing Imperial Tombs of the Ming and Qing Dynasties listing to include Beijing’s thirteen Ming tombs and the Xiaoling Tomb in Nanjing.
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2005 — State of Mexico election, 2005
A gubernatorial election was held in the State of México on Sunday, 3 July 2005.Voters in Mexico's most populous state went to the polls to elect a governor to replace former incumbent Arturo Montiel Rojas of the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI). The favorite candidate was PAN's Rubén Mendoza. It was thought the first runner-up would be PRD Yeidckol Polevnsky Gurwitz (born as Citlali Ibáñez Camacho) and last place by PRI's Enrique Peña. However, Rubén Mendoza made several mistakes in his campaign, appearing apparently drunk at events, boasting he led a group of supporters to steal campaign gifts from Peña's team and gave them with his own signature (he was taped while doing this).
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2005 — Tokyo prefectural election, 2005
Prefectural elections were held in Tokyo for the city's Metropolitan Assembly on 3 July 2005. The election was a great success for the Democratic Party of Japan which won 16 additional seats, closing in on the Liberal Democratic Party.
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2005 — 2005 Mauritian general election
General elections were held in Mauritius on 3 July 2005, with votes counted on 4 July. The Alliance Sociale, a coalition led by the Mauritian Labour Party (PTr) and including the Mauritian Party of Xavier-Luc Duval (PMXD), the Mauritian Social Democrat Party (MSN), Les Verts (Greens), the Republican Movement, and the Mauritian Militant Socialist Movement (MMSM), won the election with 42 of the 70 seats (38 elected directly, and another 4 nominated under the country's "best loser" system).
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2006 — Valencia Metro derailment
The Valencia Metro derailment occurred in Valencia, Spain's third largest city, on 3 July 2006 at 1 p.m. CEST (1100 UTC) between Jesús and Plaça d'Espanya stations on the Line 1 of the Metrovalencia mass transit system. At least 43 people were killed and more than ten were seriously injured. Valencian forensic scientists identified all but one of the victims — a woman whose family has not claimed her, according to El País.
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2010 — UFC 116
UFC 116: Lesnar vs. Carwin was a mixed martial arts event held by the Ultimate Fighting Championship on July 3, 2010 at the MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas, Nevada. The show was voted as the Best Major Show in the 2010 Wrestling Observer Newsletter Awards, the first time a UFC show won the award. This was the third-best selling pay-per-view in UFC history behind UFC 194.
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2010 — 2010 Christy Ring Cup final
The 2010 Christy Ring Cup final was a hurling match played at Croke Park on 3 July 2010 to determine the winners of the 2010 Christy Ring Cup, the 6th season of the Christy Ring Cup, a tournament organised by the Gaelic Athletic Association for the second tier hurling teams. The final was contested by Westmeath of Leinster and Kerry of Munster, with Westmeath winning by 2-16 to 1-18.
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2013 — 2013 Egyptian coup d'état
On July 3, 2013, then-President of Egypt Mohamed Morsi was overthrown by a coup d'etat led by Egyptian army chief General Abdel Fattah el-Sisi, who led a coalition to remove Morsi from power and suspend the Egyptian constitution of 2012. The move came after an ultimatum that the government "resolve its differences" with protesters during widespread national protests.
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2015 — 2015 New Zealand First deputy leadership election
An election for the parliamentary deputy leadership of the New Zealand First Party took place in the NZ First Party parliamentary caucus on July 3, 2015. Incumbent deputy leader and sitting List MP, Tracey Martin was challenged for the position by fellow list MP Ron Mark. In the election Mark won the required number of votes and replaced Martin as deputy leader of the party.
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2015 — Shyrokyne standoff
The Shyrokyne standoff was a battle for the control of the strategic village of Shyrokyne, located approximately 11 km (6.8 mi) east of Mariupol city limits, between Ukrainian forces led by the Azov Regiment, and Russian-backed separatists, between February and July 2015. It was part of the larger war in Donbas.
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2015 — Solar Impulse 2 lands in Hawaii after a solo flight from Japan
Swiss pilot André Borschberg landed Solar Impulse 2 in Hawaii after nearly 118 hours alone in the air. He had flown from Nagoya across the Pacific on solar power.
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2016 — 2016 Leinster Senior Hurling Championship final
The 2016 Leinster Senior Hurling Championship final, the deciding game of the 2016 Leinster Senior Hurling Championship, was a hurling match played on 3 July 2016 at Croke Park, Dublin. It was contested by Galway and Kilkenny, a repeat of the previous final. In 2015, Kilkenny claimed their 70th Leinster crown by defeating The Tribesmen on a scoreline of 1-25 to 2-15.
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2017 — 2017 Liberty Korea Party leadership election
The Liberty Korea Party held a leadership election on 3 July 2017. It was the first election since the Liberty Korea Party became an opposition party.
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2019 — 2019 Bulgarian Supercup
The 2019 Bulgarian Supercup was the 16th Bulgarian Supercup, an annual Bulgarian football match played between the winners of the previous season's First Professional Football League and Bulgarian Cup. The game was played between the champions of the 2018–19 First League, Ludogorets Razgrad, and the 2019 Bulgarian Cup winners, Lokomotiv Plovdiv. This was Ludogorets's seventh Bulgarian Supercup appearance and Lokomotiv Plovdiv's third.
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2021 — Verano de Escándalo (2021)
Verano de Escándalo (Spanish for "Summer of Scandal") was a major professional wrestling event produced by the Mexican Lucha Libre AAA Worldwide (AAA) promotion, which took place on July 3, 2021 at an unknown location in Tequisquiapan, Querétaro, Mexico. The Verano de Escándalo event has been a regular summer event for AAA since 1997, only skipping the event in 2012, 2013, 2016, and 2020. 2021 marked the 21st time AAA has used that name for an event and the first Verano de Escándalo event since 2019.
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2022 — Death of Ni Kuang
On 3 July 2022, Ni Kuang, a Hong Kong writer and screenwriter, died.
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2022 — Death of Miu Chu
On 3 July 2022, Miu Chu, a singer, died.
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2025 — Bucheon International Fantastic Film Festival
The Bucheon International Fantastic Film Festival (Korean: 부천국제판타스틱영화제; Hanja: 富川國際판타스틱映畵祭), or BiFan, formerly known as Puchon International Fantastic Film Festival or PiFan, is an international film festival held annually in July in Bucheon, South Korea. Inaugurated in 1997, the festival focuses on South Korean and international horror, thriller, mystery and fantasy films, with particular attention to Asian cinema from East Asia and Southeast Asia.
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