Today in History

07/03/1986 - Pres Reagan presided over relighting of renovated Statue of Liberty

07/03/1985 - CBS announced it would buy back 21 percent of its own stock

07/03/1984 - Dolphin rocket launched off San Clemente Island.

07/03/1984 - Supreme Court rules Jaycees may be forced to admit women as members

07/03/1983 - Calvin Smith of US becomes fastest man alive (36.25 kph for 100 m).

07/03/1982 - Martina Navratilova deats Chris Evert Lloyd at Wimbeldon

07/03/1980 - 73 096 in Cleveland watch Indians beat Yankees 7-0

07/03/1976 - Israel launches rescue of passengers & Air France crew members being held at Entebbe Airport in Uganda by pro-Palestinian hijackers

07/03/1974 - Soyuz 14 carries 2 cosmonauts to space station Salyut 3.

07/03/1962 - Algeria became independent after 132 years of French rule

07/03/1950 - 1st time American & North Korean forces clash in the Korean War

07/03/1939 - Lou Gehrig day Gehrig makes 'luckiest man' speech

07/03/1915 - US military forces occupy Haiti remain until 1934.

07/03/1898 - US Navy defeats Spanish fleet in the harbor at Santiago Cuba

07/03/1890 - Idaho becomes 43rd state.

07/03/1863 - Battle of Gettysburg Pa ends in a major victory for the North

07/03/1861 - Pony Express arrives in SF with overland letters from NY

07/03/1848 - slaves freed in Danish West Indies (now US Virgin Islands).

07/03/1841 - John Couch Adams decides to determine the position of an unknown planet by the irregularities it causes in the motion of Uranus.

07/03/1819 - 1st savings bank in US (Bank of Savings in NYC) opens its doors

07/03/1775 - Washington takes command of Continental Army at Cambridge Mass.

07/03/1608 - City of Quebec founded by Samuel de Champlain