On this day: July 3rd

On this day: July 3rd

There are many and several events on this day in history. Read and discover what happened on this day: On this day: July 3rd

On this day: July 3rd

Events  On this day: July 3rd

• 1775: George Washington becomes commander of the Continental Army.
• 1819: The Bank of Savings becomes the first savings bank in the US.
• 1844: The Great Auks go extinct. The last known pair of Great Auks, members of a species of flightless birds, were killed off the coast of Iceland at the request of a collector. It is believed that the extinction of these birds was caused by human activities and hunting due to the high demand for their feathers.
• 1863: The Battle of Gettysburg ends.
• 1884: The first stock average is posted by Dow Jones.
• 1890: Idaho becomes the 43rd US State.
• 1962: Algeria gains its independence fromThere are many and several events on this day in history. Read and discover what happened on this day: On this day: July 1st France. Algeria’s independence from France, after 132 years of French rule, was finalized after the signing of the Évian Accords in the spa town of Évian-les-Bains. The accords ended a 7-year-long valiant war of independence. Independence was finally achieved after the July 1, 1962, referendum favored complete Algerian independence. Ahmed Ben Bella became the first president of the country.
• 1976: The raid on Entebbe airport in Uganda occurred as an Israeli commando unit rescued 103 hostages on a hijacked Air France airliner. The jet had been en route from Tel Aviv to Paris when it was hijacked by pro-Palestinian guerrillas. Three hostages, seven hijackers, and twenty Ugandan soldiers were killed during the rescue.
• 1988: Iran Air Flight 655 was destroyed while flying over the Persian Gulf after the U.S. Navy Warship Vincennes fired two surface-to-air missiles, killing all 290 passengers aboard. A subsequent U.S. military inquiry cited stress-related human failure for the mistaken identification of the civilian aircraft as an enemy F-14 fighter jet.
• 2013: Coup in Egypt. Egyptian defense minister Abdul Fatah al-Sisi staged a coup and forced out President Mohamed Morsi, just over a year after he was elected.

Birthdays On this day: July 3rd

• 1423: Louis XI (King of France)
• 1883: Franz Kafka  (Czech/German writer)
• 1947: Dave Barry (Writer)
• 1949: Bo Xilai (Chinese politician)
• 1956: Montel Williams (TV talk show host)
• 1962: Tom Cruise (Actor)
• 1971: Julian Assange (Australian journalist, publisher, activist, founder of WikiLeaks)
• 1980: Harbhajan Singh (Indian cricketer)

Deaths On this day: July 3rd

• 1904: Theodor Herzl (Austrian journalist, author)
• 1935: André Citroën (French engineer, businessman, founded Citroën)
• 1971: Jim Morrison (American singer-songwriter, poet)
• 1995: Pancho Gonzales (American tennis player)
• 2012: Andy Griffith (American actor, singer, producer, screenwriter)

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