3rd July anniversaries

• Birth
  • 1728
  • Great Britain
  • "Birth of Robert Adam, architect"
  • 1854
  • Czech Republic
  • "Birth of Leo Janacex, composer" more
  • 1883
  • Czech Republic
  • "Birth of Franz Kafka, writer" more
  • 1883
  • Czech Republic
  • "Birth of Franz Kafka, Czech-born German writer ."
  • 1908
  • United States
  • "Birth of M.F.K. (Mary Frances Kennedy) Fisher, American food writer ."
  • 1909
  • Greece
  • "Birth of Stavros Spyros Niarchos, Greek shipping magnate and art collector who built the first supertankers for transporting oil"
  • 1937
  • Czech Republic
  • "Birth of Sir Tom Stoppard, dramatist" more
• event
  • 1608
  • Canada
  • Quebec was founded by French explorer Samuel Champlain . more
  • 1884
  • United States
  • "American journalist Charles Dow published the first Dow Jones Industrial Average, a stock market performance index"
  • 1928
  • Great Britain
  • "John Logie Baird gave the first demonstration of a colour television broadcast, London."
  • 1938
  • Great Britain
  • "The speed record for a steam railway locomotive was broken by the ’Mallard’ in England, with a speed of 126 mph (203 km/h)."
  • 1988
  • "Iran, Islamic Republic of"
  • "During the Iran-Iraq conflict the USS Vincennes, on patrol in the Gulf, mistook an Iranian civil airliner for a bomber and shot it down, killing all."
• Death
  • 1908
  • United States
  • "Death of Joel Chandler Harris, American writer (‘Uncle Remus’) ."
  • 1933
  • Argentina
  • "Death of Hipólito Yrigoyen (also spelt Irigoyen), President of Argentina ."
  • 1969
  • Great Britain
  • "Death of Brian Jones, guitarist with the Rolling Stones"
  • 1969
  • Great Britain
  • "Death of Brian Jones, British rock guitarist (Rolling Stones), found dead in his swimming pool in London"
  • 1971
  • United States
  • "Death of Jim Morrison, singer with The Doors"