Page 2: Historical Events In July - 03

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

1802  On this day in history joseph Labitzky, composer   

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

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

1809  On this day in history joseph Quesne, composer, dies at 62   

1814  On July - 03 americans capture Fort Erie, Canada   

1814  On this day in history americans capture Fort Erie Canada   

1814  Janis Cimze, composer on July - 03.   

1816  On this day in history french frigate "Medusa" runs aground off Cap Blanc. Gross incompetence kills 150 in calm seas   

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 this day in history.   

1819  1st savings bank in US (Bank of Savings in NYC) opens its doors on this day in history.   

1819  Louis Theodore Gouvy, composer on July - 03.   

1821  F Kornberger, writer on this day in history.   

1828  John Austin Wharton, Major General (Confederate Army), died in 1865 on July - 03.   

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

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

1841  On this day in history 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  The last pair of Great Auks is killed on this day in history.   

1846  On this day in history achilles Alferaki, composer   

1848  On this day in history slaves freed in Danish West Indies (now US Virgin Islands)   

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  On July - 03 alfredo Kiel, composer   

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

1853  Commodore Matthew Perry reach Japan on this day in history.   

1855  Piotr Maszynski, composer on July - 03.   

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 July - 03.   

1861  On this day in history colonal Jackson receives his commission as brigadier general   

1861  Peter Jackson, heavyweight boxer (hall of famer) on July - 03.   

1862  Friedrich Ernst Koch, composer on July - 03.   

1862  On July - 03 william Barksdale, Confederate brig-general, dies in battle at 40   

1863  Battle of Gettysbeurg, during the American Civil War, ends on July - 03.   

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1423  On July - 03 birth of louis XI, King of France (1461-83)   

1442  On this day in history birth of emperor Go-Tsuchimikado of Japan (d. 1500)   

1530  Claude Fauchet, French historian (d. 1601) was born on this day in history.   

1567  On this day in history birth of samuel de Champlain, explorer (Lake Champlain)   

1676  On this day in history birth of leopold I, Prince of Anhalt-Dessau, Prussian field marshal (d. 1747)   

1683  On July - 03 birth of edward Young, English poet (Revenge, Complaint)   

1685  On July - 03 birth of sir Robert Rich, 4th Baronet, British cavalry officer (d. 1768)   

1687  On July - 03 birth of arnold Hoogvliet, Dutch poet (Abraham the Patriarch)   

0683  Leo II, Pope (681-83), dies on this day in history.   

1090  On this day in history 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 this day in history.   

1704  Death of Sophia Alekseyevna, regent of Russia (b. 1657) on this day in history.   

1749  Death of William Jones, Welsh mathematician (b. 1675) on July - 03.   

1778  On July - 03 jean-Jacques Rousseau, French writer/composer (Pygmalion), dies