July 3

July 3rd is the 184th day of the year (185th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 181 days remaining.

Events

1844 - The last pair of Great Auks is killed.
1866 - Austro-Prussian War decided at Battle of Königgratz, resulting in Prussia taking over as the prominent German nation from Austria.
1890 - Idaho is admitted as the 43rd U.S. state.
1964 - President Lyndon Johnson signs the Civil Rights Act of 1964, which prohibits segregation in public places.

1854 - Leos Janacek, Czech composer
1870 - Richard Bedford Bennett, eleventh Prime Minister of Canada
1875 - Ferdinand Sauerbruch, surgeon (+ 1951)
1883 - Franz Kafka, writer (+ 1924)
1893 - Mississippi John Hurt
1906 - George Sanders, actor (+ 1972)
1909 - Stavros Spiros Niarchos, ship owner (+ 1996)
1913 - Dorothy Kilgallen, newspaper columnist, early television personality (+ 1965)
1927 - Ken Russell, director: Altered States, Gothic, Tommy
1928 - Günter Bruno Fuchs, writer (+ 1977)
1934 - Manfred Bieler, writer
1935 - Harrison Schmitt, astronaut
1937 - Tom Stoppard, playwright: The Real Thing, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead,, screenwriter: Billy Bathgate, Shakespeare in Love
1947 - Betty Buckley, actress
1962 - Tom Cruise, actor: Mission Impossible, Jerry Maguire, Eyes Wide Shut, Magnolia
1964 - Joanne Harris, author

See Also:

July 2 - July 4 - June 3 - August 3 -- listing of all days