100th Post!!
Here is a list of things which happened on the 3rd of July over the years:
American Revolutionary War: George Washington takes command of the Continental Army at Cambridge, Massachusetts. (1775)
American Revolutionary War: British forces massacre 360 people in the Wyoming Valley massacre. (1778)
The first savings bank in the United States (The Bank of Savings in New York City) opens. (1819)
Congress establishes the United States’s 2nd mint in San Francisco, California. (1852)
Dow Jones published its 1st stock average. (1884)
The New York Tribune becomes the first newspaper to use a linotype machine, eliminating typesetting by hand. (1886)
Idaho is admitted as the 43rd U.S. state. (1890)
World War II: Minsk is liberated from Nazi control by Soviet troops during Operation Bagration. (1944)
The biggest explosion in the history of rocketry occurs when the Soviet N1 rocket explodes and subsequently destroys its launchpad. (1969)
US President Jimmy Carter signs the first directive for secret aid to the opponents of the pro-Soviet regime in Kabul. (1979)
US President Ronald Reagan presides over the relighting of the renovated Statue of Liberty. (1986)
United States Navy warship USS Vincennes shoots down Iran Air Flight 655 over the Persian Gulf, killing all 290 people aboard. (1988)
Former Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic refused to enter a plea on war crimes charges in his first appearance before a U.N. tribunal at The Hague. (2001)
A NASA space probe, Deep Impact, hit its comet target as planned in a mission to learn how the solar system formed. (2005)