ON THIS DAY: July 3, 2016

Posted on July 3, 2016 by wordcloud9

July 3rd is:

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Disobedience Day

Stay Out of the Sun Day

Plastic Bag Free Day

National Chocolate Wafer Day

National Holidays Around the Worldinternational Flags

Armenia – Vardavar

Belarus – Independence Day

Myanmar – Women’s Day

U.S. Virgin Islands – Emancipation Day

On This Day in HISTORY

1608 – The city of Quebec was founded by Samuel de Champlain

1790 – The marquis of Condorcet proposes granting civil rights to French women

1863 – Third and final day of battle at Gettysburg. Total Union losses: 23,000 killed, wounded, or missing in action. Confederate losses: 3,903 dead, 18,735 injured, and 5,425 missing – more than a third of Lee’s army

1883 –  German-language writer Franz Kafka is born in Prague

1880 – Science begins publication, principally funded by Thomas Edison

1967 – The Doors release “Light My Fire” – Jim Morrison dies on this day in 1971

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1984 – U.S. Supreme Court rules Jaycees may be forced to admit women members

1996 – The Stone of Scone is returned to Scotland

 

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