Today In Military Histry July 03

July 03 324  Battle of Adrianople: Constantine I defeats Licinius, who flees to Byzantium.

July 03 1754  French and Indian War: George Washington surrenders Fort Necessity to French forces.

July 03 1767  Norway's oldest newspaper still in print, Adresseavisen, is founded and the first edition is published.

July 03 1775  American Revolutionary War: George Washington takes command of the Continental Army at Cambridge, Massachusetts.

July 03 1778  American Revolutionary War: Iroquois allied to Britain kill 360 people in the Wyoming Valley massacre.

July 03 1849  France invades the Roman Republic and restores the Papal States.

July 03 1863  American Civil War: The final day of the Battle of Gettysburg culminates with Pickett's Charge.

July 03 1866  Austro-Prussian War is decided at the Battle of Königgrätz, resulting in Prussia taking over as the prominent German nation from Austria.

July 03 1898  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.

July 03 1913  Confederate veterans at the Great Reunion of 1913 reenact Pickett's Charge; upon reaching the high-water mark of the Confederacy they are met by the outstretched hands of friendship from Union survivors.

July 03 1940  World War II: To stop ships from falling into German hands the French fleet of the Atlantic based at Mers El Kébir, is bombarded by the British fleet, coming from Gibraltar, causing the loss of three battleships: Dunkerque, Provence and French battleship Bretagne. One thousand two hundred sailors perish.

July 03 1944  World War II: Minsk is liberated from Nazi control by Soviet troops during Operation Bagration.
 
July 03 1967  The Aden Emergency: The Battle of the Crater in which the British Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders retake the Crater district following the Arab Police mutiny.

July 03 1988  United States Navy warship USS Vincennes shoots down Iran Air Flight 655 over the Persian Gulf, killing all 290 people aboard.

July 03 2013  Egyptian coup d'état: President of Egypt Mohamed Morsi is overthrown by the military after four days of protests all over the country calling for Morsi's resignation, to which he did not respond. President of the Supreme Constitutional Court of Egypt Adly Mansour is declared acting president.