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Events

• 1754 (272 years ago) French and Indian War: George Washington surrenders Fort Necessity to French forces.
• 1767 (259 years ago) Norway's oldest newspaper still in print, Adresseavisen, is founded and the first edition is published.
• 1775 (251 years ago) American Revolutionary War: George Washington takes command of the Continental Army at Cambridge, Massachusetts.
• 1852 (174 years ago) Congress establishes the United States' 2nd mint in San Francisco.
• 1890 (136 years ago) Idaho is admitted as the 43rd U.S. state.
• 1938 (88 years ago) United States President Franklin D. Roosevelt dedicates the Eternal Light Peace Memorial and lights the eternal flame at Gettysburg Battlefield.
• 1940 (86 years ago) World War II: The Royal Navy attacks the French naval squadron in Algeria, to ensure that it will not fall under German control. Of the four French battleships present, one is sunk, two are damaged, and one escapes back to France.
• 1970 (56 years ago) Dan-Air Flight 1903 crashes into the Les Agudes mountain in the Montseny Massif near the village of Arbúcies in Catalonia, Spain, killing all 112 people aboard.

Births

• 321 (1705 years ago) Valentinian I, Roman emperor (died 375)
• 1423 (603 years ago) Louis XI, King of France (died 1483)
• 1854 (172 years ago) Leoš Janáček, Czech composer and theorist (died 1928)
• 1883 (143 years ago) Franz Kafka, Czech-Austrian author (died 1924)
• 1937 (89 years ago) Tom Stoppard, Czech-English playwright and screenwriter (died 2025)
• 1962 (64 years ago) Tom Cruise, American actor and producer
• 1971 (55 years ago) Julian Assange, Australian journalist, publisher, and activist, founded WikiLeaks
• 1987 (39 years ago) Sebastian Vettel, German race car driver

Deaths

• 1642 (384 years ago) Marie de' Medici, French queen consort and regent (born 1573)
• 1904 (122 years ago) Theodor Herzl, Austrian journalist, playwright, and father of modern political Zionism (born 1860)
• 1918 (108 years ago) Mehmed V, Ottoman sultan (born 1844)
• 1933 (93 years ago) Hipólito Yrigoyen, Argentinian educator and politician, 19th President of Argentina (born 1852)
• 1969 (57 years ago) Brian Jones, English guitarist, songwriter, and producer (born 1942)
• 1971 (55 years ago) Jim Morrison, American singer-songwriter (born 1943)
• 2025 (a year ago) Diogo Jota, Portuguese footballer (born 1996)
• 2025 (a year ago) Michael Madsen, American actor (born 1957)

All 348 events, births and deaths of July 3