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On This Day: July 3

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On July 3, 1863, the Civil War Battle of Gettysburg in Pennsylvania ended after three days in a major victory for the North as Confederate troops retreated.

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On July 3, 1878, George M. Cohan, the great song and dance man of Broadway, was born. Following his death on Nov. 5, 1942, his obituary appeared in The Times.

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On This Date

1608	The city of Quebec was founded by Samuel de Champlain.
1775	Gen. George Washington took command of the Continental Army at Cambridge, Mass.
1878	Broadway song-and-dance man George M. Cohan was born in Providence, R.I. (Cohan claimed to have been - as he wrote in one of his patriotic songs - "born on the Fourth of July.")
1890	Idaho became the 43rd state.
1898	The U.S. Navy defeated a Spanish fleet in the harbor at Santiago, Cuba, during the Spanish-American War.
1930	Congress created the Veterans Administration.
1962	Algeria became independent after 132 years of French rule.
1971	Rock singer Jim Morrison of The Doors died in Paris at age 27.
1985	The time-travel comedy "Back to the Future," starring Michael J. Fox and Christopher Lloyd, was released in movie theaters.
1986	President Ronald Reagan presided over a ceremony in New York Harbor that saw the relighting of the renovated Statue of Liberty.
1988	The USS Vincennes shot down an Iran Air jetliner over the Persian Gulf, killing all 290 people aboard.
2001	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.
2005	A NASA space probe, Deep Impact, hit its comet target as planned in a mission to learn how the solar system formed.
2009	Sarah Palin announced she would resign as Alaska governor with 16 months left in her term.

Current Birthdays

Actor Tom Cruise turns 49 years old today.

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Actor Patrick Wilson turns 38 years old today.

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1916	John Kundla, Basketball Hall of Famer, turns 95
1930	Pete Fountain, Jazz clarinetist, turns 81
1937	Tom Stoppard, Playwright, turns 74
1939	Jay Tarses, Writer, producer, turns 72
1940	Lamar Alexander, U.S. senator, R-Tenn., turns 71
1940	Jerzy Buzek, President of the European Parliament, turns 71
1943	Kurtwood Smith, Actor ("That 70s Show"), turns 68
1945	Michael Cole, Actor ("The Mod Squad"), turns 66
1947	Dave Barry, Humor writer, turns 64
1947	Betty Buckley, Actress ("Eight is Enough," "Cats"), turns 64
1949	Jan Smithers, Actress ("WKRP In Cincinnati"), turns 62
1956	Montel Williams, Talk show host, turns 55
1962	Thomas Gibson, Actor ("Dharma and Greg"), turns 49
1962	Hunter Tylo, Actress ("The Bold and the Beautiful"), turns 49
1964	Yeardley Smith, Actress ("The Simpsons"), turns 47
1966	Moises Alou, Baseball player, turns 45
1970	Audra McDonald, Singer, actress, turns 41
1980	Shoshannah Stern, Actress, turns 31

Historic Birthdays

George M. Cohan7/3/1878 - 11/5/1942American songwriter, actor, producer and director.Go to obituary »

63	Robert Adam 7/3/1728 - 3/3/1792 Scottish architect and designer
64	Samuel Huntington 7/3/1731 - 1/5/1796 American colonial leader; signed the Declaration of Independence
77	John Singleton Copley 7/3/1738 - 9/9/1815 American painter
55	Dankmar Adler 7/3/1844 - 4/16/1900 German-born American architect and engineer
75	Charlotte Gilman 7/3/1860 - 8/17/1935 American writer and women's rights advocate
40	Franz Kafka 7/3/1883 - 6/3/1924 Czech-born German author
83	M. F. K. Fisher 7/3/1908 - 6/22/1992 American food essayist and novelist
86	Stavros Spyros Niarchos 7/3/1909 - 4/15/1996 Greek shipping magnate and art collector
52	Dorothy Kilgallen 7/3/1913 - 11/8/1965 American columnist, journalist and panelist