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2015 (Friday) July 3 is the 184th day of the year (185th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar; 181 days remain until the end of the year.
1986 – US President Ronald Reagan presides over the relighting of the renovated Statue of Liberty. 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.
8 wounded. 302 killed. 5 captured. The Battle of Wyoming, also known as the Wyoming Massacre, was a military engagement during the American Revolutionary War between Patriot militia and a force of Loyalist soldiers and Indigenous warriors. The battle took place in the Wyoming Valley of Pennsylvania on July 3, 1778 in what is now Luzerne County.
The Battle of Gettysburg ( locally / ˈɡɛtɪsbɜːrɡ / ⓘ) [ 14] was a three-day battle in the American Civil War fought between Union and Confederate forces between July 1 and July 3, 1863, in and around Gettysburg, Pennsylvania.
Independence Day, known colloquially as the Fourth of July, is a federal holiday in the United States which commemorates the ratification of the Declaration of Independence by the Second Continental Congress on July 4, 1776, establishing the United States of America . The Founding Father delegates of the Second Continental Congress declared ...
July 30 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics) Feast of the Throne ( Morocco) Independence Day, celebrates the independence of Vanuatu from the United Kingdom and France in 1980. International Day of Friendship ( international ), [ 49] and its related observances:
July 1, 1943 (Thursday) The death sentence, for treason, of German-born American Max Stephan was commuted by U.S. President Roosevelt to life imprisonment, seven hours before Stephan was to be hanged. Stephan had been convicted of harboring a German prisoner of war who had escaped from a POW camp in Ontario. [1]
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