Today in History: July 3, Union wins Battle of Gettysburg
Currently is Thursday July the th day of There are days left in the year In contemporary times in history On July the pivotal three-day Civil War Battle of Gettysburg in Pennsylvania ended in a major win for the North as Confederate troops failed to breach Union positions during an assault known as Pickett s Charge Also on this date In Gen George Washington took command of the Continental Army at Cambridge Massachusetts Related Articles Diego Luna scores twice as US tops Guatemala - heads to final Judge denies bid by the suspect in Tupac Shakur s killing for a new trial in a jailhouse fight In a big bill that hurts clean ability residential solar likely to get hit fast Bay Area residents charged in massive nationwide robustness fraud crackdown The likely sentence faced by Sean Diddy Combs for his prostitution-related crime In during World War II Soviet forces recaptured Minsk from the Germans In the first carrier strikes of the Korean War took place as the USS Valley Forge and the HMS Triumph sent fighter planes against North Korean targets In singer Jim Morrison of The Doors died in Paris at age In Dan White convicted of voluntary manslaughter in the shooting deaths of San Francisco Mayor George Moscone mahs-KOH -nee and Supervisor Harvey Milk was sentenced to seven years and eight months in prison In President Ronald Reagan presided over a gala ceremony in New York Harbor that saw the relighting of the renovated Statue of Liberty In the USS Vincennes shot down an Iran Air jetliner over the Persian Gulf killing all people aboard In Novak Djokovic NOH -vak JOH -kuh-vich won his first Wimbledon beating defending champion Rafael Nadal In Andy Griffith who made homespun American Southern wisdom his trademark as the wise sheriff in The Andy Griffith Show died at his North Carolina home at age Nowadays s Birthdays Playwright Tom Stoppard is Attorney Gloria Allred is Actor Kurtwood Smith is Country singer Johnny Lee is Humorist Dave Barry is Actor Betty Buckley is Talk show host Montel Williams is Country singer Aaron Tippin is Rock musician Vince Clarke Depeche Mode Yaz Erasure is Actor Tom Cruise is Actor Thomas Gibson is Actor Connie Nielsen is Actor Yeardley Smith is Actor-singer Audra McDonald is Hockey Hall of Famer Teemu Selanne is WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange is Actor Patrick Wilson is Former mixed martial artist Wanderlei Silva is Actor Olivia Munn is Formula One driver Sebastian Vettel is Rock singer-songwriter Elle King is
