July 3rd is:
Disobedience Day
Stay Out of the Sun Day
Plastic Bag Free Day
National Chocolate Wafer Day
National Holidays Around the World
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
1984 – U.S. Supreme Court rules Jaycees may be forced to admit women members
1996 – The Stone of Scone is returned to Scotland