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July 3 is the 184th day of the year (185th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar; 181 days remain until the end of the year. Events. Pre-1600. 324 – ...
Farnsworth's Charge, Battles and Leaders. On the third day of the Battle of Gettysburg (July 3, 1863) during the disastrous infantry assault nicknamed Pickett's Charge, there were two cavalry battles: one approximately three miles (5 km) to the east, in the area known today as East Cavalry Field, the other southwest of the [Big] Round Top mountain (sometimes called South Cavalry Field).
The July 3 bombardment was likely the largest of the war, [note 2] with hundreds of cannons from both sides firing along the lines for one to two hours, [note 3] starting around 1 p.m. Confederate guns numbered between 150 and 170 [note 4] and fired from a line over two miles (3 km) long, starting in the south at the Peach Orchard and running ...
The immediate reaction of the Southern military and public sectors was that Gettysburg was a setback, not a disaster. The sentiment was that Lee had been successful on July 1 and had fought a valiant battle on July 2–3, but could not dislodge the Union Army from the strong defensive position to which it fled.
Iran Air Flight 655 [a] was a scheduled passenger flight from Tehran to Dubai via Bandar Abbas that was shot down on 3 July 1988 by two surface-to-air missiles fired by USS Vincennes, a United States Navy warship.
1839 – The first state normal school in the United States, the forerunner to today's Framingham State College, opens in Lexington, Massachusetts with 3 students. 1848 – Slaves are freed in the Danish West Indies (now U.S. Virgin Islands) by Peter von Scholten. 1852 – Congress establishes the United States's 2nd mint in San Francisco ...
But whether they like it or not, the company will now be “transitioning away from remote work” Baszucki said, with a hard start to in-person working for most of the week on July 15, 2024.
Clemens August Graf von Galen, Catholic Bishop of Münster in Germany, preached the first of 3 sermons against Nazi brutality. The D.C. Armory opened in Washington, D.C. Hollywood couple William Holden and Brenda Marshall were married at a resort near Las Vegas. [27] Died: Eduard Norden, 72, German classical philologist and historian of religion