July 3<\/p>\n
1035 \u2013 William the Conqueror becomes the Duke of Normandy.<\/p>\n
1754 \u2013 Colonel George Washington surrenders Fort Necessity to French forces during the French and Indian War.<\/p>\n
1767 \u2013 Pitcairn Island is discovered by Midshipman Robert Pitcairn aboard HMS Swallow<\/em><\/p>\n 1775 \u2013 General George Washington takes command of the Continental Army, during the Revolutionary War<\/p>\n 1778 \u2013 During the Revolutionary War, Iroquois allied to Britain, engage troops of the 24th Regiment and\u00a0 Wyoming Riflemen of the Connecticut Militia supported by Regular Continental troops, wiping out the force and killing more than 360 soldiers and people, which included men, women and children in Exeter and Wyoming, Pennsylvania<\/p>\n 1819 \u2013 The Bank for Savings in the City of New-York, the first savings bank in the U.S., opens for business.<\/p>\n 1839 \u2013 The first state normal school in the U.S., the forerunner to today’s Framingham State University, opens in Lexington, Massachusetts with three students.<\/p>\n 1852 \u2013 Congress establishes the United States mint in San Francisco<\/p>\n 1863 \u2013 The final day of the Battle of Gettysburg culminates with Pickett’s Charge against the center of the Union Army’s line.<\/p>\n 1884 \u2013 Dow Jones & Company publishes its first stock average.<\/p>\n 1886 \u2013 The New-York Tribune becomes the first newspaper to use a linotype machine, eliminating typesetting by hand. Later, the alloy is found to be excellent for making bullets for high powered custom handguns.<\/p>\n 1890 \u2013 Idaho is admitted as the 43rd state.<\/p>\n 1898 \u2013 A Spanish squadron, led by Pascual Cervera y Topete, is defeated by an American squadron under William T. Sampson in the Battle of Santiago de Cuba during the Spanish-American War.<\/p>\n 1913 \u2013 Confederate veterans at the Great Reunion of 1913 reenact Pickett’s Charge; upon reaching the high water mark of the Confederacy on the battlefield, they are met by the outstretched hands of friendship from Union veterans of the battle.<\/p>\n 1938 \u2013 President Roosevelt dedicates the Eternal Light Peace Memorial and lights the eternal flame at Gettysburg Battlefield.<\/p>\n 1952 \u2013 The United States Lines’, passenger liner, SS United States<\/em> sets sail from New York Harbor on her maiden voyage to Southampton. During the voyage, the ship breaks the standing speed record for an Atlantic crossing and takes the Blue Riband award from the RMS Queen Mary,<\/em> retaining it and the Hales Trophy for the feat without ever being surpassed.<\/p>\n 1979 \u2013 President Carter signs the first directive for clandestine aid to the opponents of the pro Soviet regime in Kabul Afghanistan.<\/p>\n 1988 \u2013Fleet Air Defense officers aboard the guided missile cruiser USS Vincennes<\/em> mistakenly shoot down Iran Air Flight 655 over the Persian Gulf, killing all 290 passengers and crew aboard<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" July 3 1035 \u2013 William the Conqueror becomes the Duke of Normandy. 1754 \u2013 Colonel George Washington surrenders Fort Necessity to French forces during the French and Indian War. 1767 \u2013 Pitcairn Island is discovered by Midshipman Robert Pitcairn aboard HMS Swallow 1775 \u2013 General George Washington takes command of the Continental Army, during the … Continue reading “”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[90],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-56588","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-today"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56588","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=56588"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56588\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":94024,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56588\/revisions\/94024"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=56588"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=56588"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=56588"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}