3 Julie

The **3rd o Julie** is the 184t day o the year (185t in lowp years) in the Gregorian Calendar, wi 181 days ti come.

## Events

*1035 &ndash; William the Conqueror becomes Duke o Normandy.
*1162 &ndash; Thomas Becket becomes Airchbeeshop o Canterbury.
*1608 &ndash; Quebec Ceety is foondit bi Samuel de Champlain.
*1778 &ndash; American Revolutionary War: Breetish forces kill 360 fowk in Wyoming Valley massacre.
*1848 &ndash; Fraunce invades the Roman Republic an restores the Papal States.
*1863 &ndash; American Ceevil War: The Battle o Gettysburg ends wi a northren victory.
*1886 &ndash; Karl Benz unveils the Benz Patent Motorwagen.
*1890 &ndash; Idaho became the 43rd state o the Unitit States.
*1944 &ndash; Warld War II: Minsk is liberatit frae Nazi control bi Soviet troops durin Operation Bagration. 
*1952 &ndash; The Constitution o Puerto Rico is acceptit bi Unitit States Congress.
*1953 &ndash; The Himalayan peak o Nanga Parbat is climbed for the first time.
*1962 &ndash; The Algerian War o Unthirldom against the French ends.
*1969 &ndash; The biggest-ever racket splosion occurs when  a Soviet N-1 racket splodes an destroys its launchpad.
*1970 &ndash; A Breetish-chairtert jetliner crashes near Barcelona, killin 112 fowk.
*1976 &ndash; Adolfo Suarez is appyntit bi King Juan Carlos tae lead a transeetional govrenment in Spain.
*1988 &ndash; Iran Air Flicht 655 is shot doon bi a US cruiser ower the Persian Gulf, killin aw 290 fowk on baird.
*1991 &ndash; Belaroushie declared unthirldom frae the Soviet Union.
*1996 &ndash; The Stane o Scuin is returned tae Scotland.
*2001 &ndash; A Vladivostokavia Tupolev TU-154 jetliner crashes on a approach tae laundin at the Siberie ceety o Irkutsk, killin 145 fowk.
*2004 &ndash; Bangkok's subway seestem opens.
*2004 &ndash; Tennis: Maria Sharapova, then agit 17, defeats Serena Williams tae win the weemen's singles at the Wimbledon Championships.
*2011 &ndash; Tennis: Novak Djokovic defeats Rafael Nadal tae win his first Wimbledon Championships singles title.
*2013 &ndash; King Albert II o Belgium propales his abdication.
*2013 &ndash; Mohamed Morsi is removed as Preses o Egyp in a coup.
*2016 &ndash; Bomb attacks in Baghdad kill 213 fowk.
*2017 &ndash; A bus crashes intae a lorry an bursts intae flames in Northren Bavarie, Germany, killin 18 fowk.
*2020 &ndash; Emmanuel Macron appynts Jean Castex as Prime meenister o Fraunce.
*2020 &ndash; COVID-19 pandemic: Pubs, bars an restaurants in Northren Ireland reopen; In Ingland, they reopen the follaein day.
*2020 &ndash; COVID-19 pandemic: The nummer o recordit cases o COVID-19 warldwide reaches 11 million.

## Births

*1423 &ndash; Louis XI o Fraunce (d. 1483)
*1728 &ndash; Robert Adam, Scots airchitect (d. 1792)
*1769 &ndash; Gilbert Laing Meason, Scots merchand (d. 1832)
*1825 &ndash; Erskine Nicol, Scots penter (d. 1904)
*1870 &ndash; R. B. Bennett, 11t Prime meenister o Canadae (d. 1947)
*1883 &ndash; Franz Kafka, Bohemie writer (d. 1924)
*1927 &ndash; Ken Russell, Inglis film director (d. 2011)
*1937 &ndash; Tom Stoppard, Czech-born Inglis playwricht
*1940 &ndash; Jerzy Buzek, Pols politeecian
*1951 &ndash; Jean-Claude Duvalier, Preses o Haiti (d. 2014)
*1952 &ndash; Laura Branigan, American sangster (d. 2004)
*1962 &ndash; Tom Cruise, American actor
*1964 &ndash; Yeardley Smith, American actress
*1970 &ndash; Arlene Foster, DUP leader an First Meenister o Northren Ireland
*1971 &ndash; Julian Assange, Australie editor, activist, publisher an jurnalist
*1980 &ndash; Harbhajan Singh, Indian cricketer
*1987 &ndash; Sebastian Vettel, German racin driver
*1989 &ndash; Elle King, American sangster
*1991 &ndash; Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova, Roushie tennis player
*1991 &ndash; Will Grigg, Northren Ireland internaitional fitbawer
*1992 &ndash; Nathalia Ramos, Spaingie-born actress

## Daiths
*1582 &ndash; James Crichton, Scots polymath (b. 1560)
*1642 &ndash; Marie de' Medici, Queen o Fraunce (b. 1575)
*1849 &ndash; Anthony Todd Thomson, Scots medicinar (b. 1778)
*1900 &ndash; Robert Murdoch Smith, Scots ingineer, airchaeologist an diplomat (b. 1835)
*1904 &ndash; Theodor Herzl, Austrick jurnalist (b. 1860)
*1919 &ndash; Thomas Millie Dow, Scots airtist (b. 1848)
*1971 &ndash; Jim Morrison, American muisicker (b. 1943)
*1996 &ndash; Herb Baumeister, American serial killer (b. 1947)
*2001 &ndash; Billy Liddell, Scots fitbawer (b. 1922)
*2012 &ndash; Andy Griffith, American actor (b. 1926)

## Halidays
* Independence Day (Belaroushie)