Vero - Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/July 3
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LNER 4468 Mallard
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Flag of Quebec City
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Constantine the Great
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Battle of Gettysburg
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Eternal Light Peace Memorial
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Satellite image of Pitcairn Island
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Jimmy Carter
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Wreckage of Iran Air Flight 655
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David Bowie as Ziggy Stardust in 1972
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SS United States
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French destroyer Mogador burning after British shellfire
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| 987 – Hugh Capet was crowned King of France, becoming the first monarch of the Capetian dynasty, which ruled France continuously until overthrown during the French Revolution in 1792. | refimprove |
| 1608 – French explorer Samuel de Champlain founded Quebec City. | refimprove sections |
| 1767 – Adresseavisen, Norway's oldest newspaper still in print, was first published. | refimprove |
| 1767 – Midshipman Robert Pitcairn sighted Pitcairn Island, subsequently named after him, during an expeditionary voyage led by Philip Carteret. | Pitcairn Islands: date not cited; Robert Pitcairn article says it was on 2 July |
| 1866 – Prussian forces defeated the Austrian army at the Battle of Königgrätz, the decisive battle in the Austro-Prussian War. | needs more footnotes |
| 1886 – German automobile engineer Karl Benz unveiled his Patent-Motorwagen, widely regarded as the first automobile, in Mannheim, Germany. | needs more footnotes |
| 1898 – In one of the key naval engagements of the Spanish–American War, the United States Navy destroyed the Spanish Navy's Caribbean Squadron. | refimprove section |
| 1938 – The LNER Mallard broke the world speed record for a steam locomotive, reaching a speed of Template:Nowrap (Template:Nowrap) per hour. | unreferenced section |
| 1944 – World War II: During their second phase of Operation Bagration, Soviet troops liberated Minsk, present-day Belarus, from Nazi Germany. | Operation: refimprove section; Offensive: needs more footnotes |
| Jacobus Gallus |b|1550| | Date not listed as July 3 |
| Sir Robert Rich, 4th Baronet |b|1685| | Birthday not cited |
| Charlotte Perkins Gilman |b|1860| | Too much uncited |
| Āpirana Ngata |b|1874 | refimprove section |
| S. V. Ranga Rao |b|1918 | unreferenced filmography section |
| Yvonne B. Miller |d|2012 | Uncited sections |
| : Independence Day in Belarus (1944) | Too much uncited |
| Pickett's Charge | Tagged for deficient lead |
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- 324 – Civil wars of the Tetrarchy: Roman emperor Constantine the Great defeated his former colleague Licinius at the Battle of Adrianople.
- 1754 – French and Indian War: George Washington surrendered Fort Necessity in Pennsylvania, the only military surrender in his career.
- 1778 – American Revolutionary War: Loyalists and Iroquois killed over 300 Patriots at the Battle of Wyoming in Pennsylvania.
- 1863 – Confederate forces were defeated by the Union Army on the last day of the Battle of Gettysburg (pictured), a turning point in the American Civil War.
- 1938 – On the 75th anniversary of the end of the Battle of Gettysburg, U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt dedicated the Eternal Light Peace Memorial.
- 1952 – Template:SS (pictured) departed New York Harbor on her maiden voyage, on which completion she became the fastest ocean liner to cross the Atlantic.
- 1940 – Second World War: The Royal Navy attacked the French fleet at Mers El Kébir (pictured), fearing that the ships would fall into Axis hands after the French–German armistice.
- 1970 – Dan-Air Flight 1903 crashed into the slopes of the Montseny Massif in Catalonia, Spain, killing all 112 people aboard.
- 1973 – British singer David Bowie retired his stage persona Ziggy Stardust in a surprise announcement on the last day of a 17-month tour.
- 1979 – US president Jimmy Carter signed a presidential finding, authorizing covert operations to aid the mujahideen against the Soviet-backed Democratic Republic of Afghanistan.
- 2013 – General Abdel Fattah el-Sisi led a coalition to depose President Mohamed Morsi in a coup d'état in Cairo, suspending the Egyptian Constitution of 2012.
- Born/died: | Dong Chang |d|896| Robert Adam |b|1728| Hasan Tahsini |d|1881| Einar Mäkinen |b|1895|Susan Peters|b|1921| Peter van Geersdaele |b|1933| Tom Cruise |b|1962|Teemu Selänne |b|1970|Lew Hoad |d|1994
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- 1810 – Mauritius campaign of 1809–1811: A French frigate squadron under Guy-Victor Duperré defeated a convoy of three British East Indiamen near the Comoro Islands.
- 1970 – The Troubles: The British Army began the Falls Curfew in Belfast, Northern Ireland, which resulted in greater Irish republican resistance.
- 1988 – The US Navy warship Vincennes shot down Iran Air Flight 655 over the Persian Gulf, killing all 290 people aboard.
- 2005 – Same-sex marriage became legal in Spain with the coming into effect of a law passed by the Cortes Generales.
- 2017 – In Arizona, the Boundary Fire (pictured) burned out after 32 days, burning Template:Cvt of the Coconino and Kaibab National Forests.