Today In History. What Happened This Day In History
A Timeline Of Events That Occurred On This Day In History
A chronological timetable of historical events that occurred on this day in history. Historical facts of the day in the areas of military, politics, science, music, sports, arts, entertainment and more. Discover what happened today in history.
Today in History
July 3
| 1775 | George Washington takes command of the Continental Army. | |
| 1790 | In Paris, the Marquis of Condorcet proposes granting civil rights to women. | |
| 1844 | American ambassador Caleb Cushing successfully negotiates a commercial treaty with China. | |
| 1863 | Confederate forces attack the center of the Union line at Gettysburg, but fail to break it. | |
| 1878 | John Wise flies the first dirigible in Lancaster, Pennsylvania. | |
| 1901 | The Wild Bunch, led by Butch Cassidy, commits its last American robbery near Wagner, Montana, taking $65,000 from a Great Northern train. | |
| 1903 | The first cable across the Pacific Ocean is spliced between Honolulu, Midway, Guam and Manila. | |
| 1916 | The Battle of the Somme begins. More than 100,000 men are killed in the first day. | |
| 1944 | The U.S. First Army opens a general offensive to break out of the hedgerow area of Normandy, France. | |
| 1945 | U.S. troops land at Balikpapan and take Sepinggan airfield on Borneo in the Pacific. | |
| 1950 | U.S. carrier-based planes attack airfields in the Pyongyang-Chinnampo area of North Korea in the first air-strike of the Korean War. | |
| 1954 | Food rationing ends in Great Britain almost nine years after the end of World War II. | |
| 1962 | Jackie Robinson becomes the first African American to be inducted into the National Baseball Hall of Fame. | |
| 1967 | North Vietnamese soldiers attack South Vietnam's only producing coal mine at Nong Son. | |
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Born on July 3 |
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| 1683 | Edward Young, English poet, dramatist and literary critic (Night Thoughts). | |
| 1844 | Dankmar Adler, architect and engineer. | |
| 1871 | William Henry Davies, Welsh poet. | |
| 1878 | George M. Cohan, American entertainer and songwriter. | |
| 1883 | Franz Kafka, Prague-born German novelist (The Metamorphosis, The Trail). | |
| 1908 | M.F.K. Fisher, food witer. | |
| 1912 | Elizabeth Taylor, novelist and short story writer. | |
| 1921 | Francois-Arnold Reichenbach, documentary filmmaker. | |
| 1937 | Tom Stoppard, British playwright (Rosencrantz and Gilderstern are Dead). | |
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Battle of the Somme began July 1 not July 3 as stated above.