| July 3rd 1806 | | Michael Keens exhibits 1st cultivated strawberry
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| July 3rd 1814 | | Americans capture Fort Erie Canada
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| July 3rd 1816 | | French frigate "Medusa" runs aground off Cap Blanc. Gross incompetence kills 150 in calm seas
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| July 3rd 1819 | | 1st savings bank in US (Bank of Savings in NYC) opens its doors
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| July 3rd 1839 | | 1st state normal school in US opens, Lexington, Mass, with 3 students
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| July 3rd 1841 | | John Couch Adams decides to determine position of an unknown planet by irregularities it causes in the motion of Uranus
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| July 3rd 1848 | | Slaves freed in Danish West Indies (now US Virgin Islands)
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| July 3rd 1852 | | Congress authorizes US's 2nd mint (San Francisco, Calif)
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| July 3rd 1853 | | Commodore Matthew Perry reach Japan
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| July 3rd 1861 | | Colonal Jackson receives his commission as brigadier general
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| July 3rd 1861 | | Pony Express arrives in SF with overland letters from NY
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| July 3rd 1861 | | Martinsburg, VA - Confederate forces pull out before US advance
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| July 3rd 1863 | | Battle of Gettysburg Pa ends, major victory for North
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| July 3rd 1863 | | Battle of Donaldsonville, LA
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| July 3rd 1864 | | Battle of Chattahoochie River, GA [until Jul 9]
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