July 3 is:
Compliment Your Mirror Day
Disobedience Day
Stay out of the Sun Day
National Chocolate Wafer Day
Eat Beans Day
July 3, 1608, Québec City was founded by Samuel de Champlain.
1775 – American Revolutionary War: George Washington took command of the Continental Army at Cambridge, Massachusetts.
In 1806, Michael Keens, a market gardener of Isleworth near London, exhibited the first cultivated strawberry that combined size, flavor, and color at the Royal Horticultural Society. The 600 strawberry varieties found today stem from five or six original wild species, and are a member of the rose family. The wild, small, fragrant forest strawberry of Europe was available to the Romans in the Middle Ages. Europeans discovered wild strawberries in Virginia when their ships landed there in 1588, grown by local American Indians. When Virginia sent a better flavored strawberry to England in 1642, and a large white strawberry from Chile was introduced in 1806, the big fruit we know today, emerged. Strawberries are unique, because they are the only fruit with seeds on the outside.
July 3 – 1844: The Great Auk becomes extinct, after the last group was killed in Iceland.
Idaho Admission Day in 1890 as the forty-third state
- Capital: Boise
- Nickname: Gem state
- Bird: Mountain bluebird
- Flower: Syringa (mock orange)
- Tree: Western white pine
- Motto: It is forever
See our page Idaho for more interesting facts and trivia about Idaho.
In 1929, foam rubber was developed at the Dunlop Latex Development Laboratories in Birmingham. British scientist E.A. Murphy whipped up the first batch in 1929, using an ordinary kitchen mixer to froth natural latex rubber. His colleagues were unimpressed – until they sat on it. Within five years it was everywhere, on motorcycle seats, on London bus seats, Shakespeare Memorial Theatre seats, and eventually in mattresses.