On this day in history: 3rd July: 324 - Battle of Adrianople Roman Emperor Constantine I defeats Co-Emperor Licinius, who flees to Byzantium. 683 - St Leo II ends his reign as Catholic Pope 987 - Hugh Capet (Hugh the Great) crowned King of the Franks 1090 - Battle at Hagenoorde: German emperor beats earl Egbert II 1187 - Crusaders enter Tiberias 1187 - Battle of Horns of Hattin; Saladin, Sultan of Egypt and Syria, destroys Jerusalems crusader army. 1250 - Louis IX of France is captured by Baibars Mamluk army at the Battle of Fariskur while he is in Egypt conducting the Seventh Crusade; he later has to ransom himself. 1428 - Treaty of Delft between Jacoba of Bavaria & Philip the Good of Burgundy 1608 - Samuel de Champlain founds city of Quebec 1630 - Emperor Ferdinand II opens German Parliament 1661 - Portugal gives Tangier & Bombay to English King Charles II 1720 - Sweden & Denmark sign peace treaty 1767 - Pitcairn Island is discovered by Midshipman Robert Pitcairn on an expeditionary voyage commanded by Philip Carteret. 1767 - Norways oldest newspaper still in print, Adresseavisen, is founded (first edition published this date). 1778 - Prussia declares war on Austria 1816 - French frigate Medusa runs aground off Cap Blanc. Gross incompetence kills 150 in calm seas 1841 - John Couch Adams decides to determine position of an unknown planet by irregularities it causes in the motion of Uranus 1844 - The last pair of Great Auks is killed. 1848 - Slaves freed in Danish West Indies (now US Virgin Islands) 1849 - The French entered Rome in order to restore Pope Pius IX to power. This would prove a major obstacle to Italian unification. 1876 - Montenegro declares war on Turkey 1883 - SS Daphne sinks on Clyde River Scotland; 195 die 1884 - Dow Jones published its 1st stock avg 1886 - In Germany, Karl Benz drives 1st automobile 1890 - King Leopold II gives Congo, previously a private possession, to Belgium 1898 - Dutch Automobile Club forms (KNAC) 1898 - Joshua Slocum completes 1st solo circumnavigation of the globe 1898 - US Navy defeats Spanish fleet in Santiago harbor, Cuba 1900 - Trying in stem the growing popular resentment, Czar Nicholas of Russia issues a decree that abolishes the banishment of dissidents and troublemakers to Siberia 1905 - Kuyper government forms in Holland 1907 - Pope decree forbids modernization of theology 1917 - Spontaneous demonstration at Tauride-palace Petrograd 1918 - SDAPer Suze Groenweg elected 1st woman in Dutch parliament 1920 - Java Technical School Bandung opens 1920 - Royal Air Force holds an air display at Hendon, England 1923 - Dockers strike in Hull/Grimsby/Cardiff/Bristol over to London 1928 - 1st colour TV broadcast in London (John Logie Baird) 1929 - Dunlop Latex Development Laboratories made foam rubber 1939 - Ernst Heinkel demonstrates 800 kph (500 mph) rocket plane to Hitler 1940 - ARP-leader/ex-premier Colijn argues cooperation with Germany 1940 - British Royal Navy sinks French fleet in Mers-el-Kebir, Algeria, to prevent Germany seizing it. 1940 - German occupiers forbid using Dutch royal names 1942 - German troops march into Sebastopol, Crimea 1942 - Hitler visits Field Marshal Von Bocks headquarters in Ukraine 1943 - Liberator bombers sinks U-628 1946 - 1st Dutch government of Beel forms 1947 - Soviet Union doesnt participate in Marshall Plan 1950 - 1st time US & North Korean forces clash in Korean War
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