Wednesday July 3, 2024
A date scroll with Latin text from “The Extremes of Good and Evil” by Cicero, written in 45 BC.

July 3: Day of the Week

July 3, 2024 is the 185th day of the year 2024 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 181 days remaining until the end of the year. The day of the week is Wednesday.

If you are trying to learn French then this day of the week in French is mercredi.

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Here’s the July calendar. You can also browse the full year monthly calendar.

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Zodiac & Birthstone

Cancer is the zodiac sign of a person born on this day. Ruby is the modern birthstone for this month. Ruby is the mystical birthstone from Tibetan origin that dates back over a thousand years.

July 3 Historical Event(s)

1775
American Revolutionary War: George Washington takes command of the Continental Army at Cambridge, Massachusetts.
1778
American Revolutionary War: British forces kill 360 people in the Wyoming Valley massacre.
1848
Slaves are freed in the Danish West Indies (now U.S. Virgin Islands) by Peter von Scholten in the culmination of a year-long plot by enslaved Africans.
1852
Congress establishes the United States’ 2nd mint in San Francisco, California.
1886
The New York Tribune becomes the first newspaper to use a linotype machine, eliminating typesetting by hand.
1890
Idaho is admitted as the 43rd U.S. state.
1988
United States Navy warship USS Vincennes shoots down Iran Air Flight 655 over the Persian Gulf, killing all 290 people aboard.
1994
The deadliest day in Texas traffic history, according to the Texas Department of Public Safety. Forty-six people are killed in crashes.
1996
Stone of Scone is returned to Scotland.
2001
A Vladivostok Avia Tupolev Tu-154 jetliner crashes on approach to landing at Irkutsk, Russia killing 145 people.

Who were born on July 3?

1685
Sir Robert Rich, 4th Baronet, British cavalry officer (d. 1768)
1924
S. R. Nathan, 6th president of Singapore
1936
Baard Owe, Norwegian-born Danish actor
1939
Brigitte Fassbaender, German mezzo-soprano
1942
Paco Stanley, Mexican TV personality (d. 1999)
1955
Sanma Akashiya, Japanese television performer
1958
Siân Lloyd, Welsh weather presenter
1976
Henry Olonga, Zimbabwean cricketer
1983
Edinson Volquez, Dominican baseball player
1990
Bobby Hopkinson, English footballer

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