On This Day
3rd July
1844 – The last nesting pair of Great Auks was killed. They were found incubating an egg off Iceland. Jón Brandsson and Sigurður Ísleifsson strangled the adults and Ketill Ketilsson smashed the egg with his boot.
1884 – The Dow Jones published its 1st stock average.
1928 - The first colour television transmission took place in London.
1969 - Former Rolling Stones guitarist, Brian Jones (born Lewis Brian Hopkin-Jones) drowned.
1971 - Jim Morrison, the lead singer of American rock group The Doors, was found dead in a bathtub in Paris of heart failure. He was only 27.
1976 - Israeli commandos rescued 103 hostages held by Arab militants at Entebbe airport, Uganda.
1987 - Nazi war criminal Klaus Barbie was sentenced to life imprisonment at a court in Lyon.
1988 - Missiles fired from an American naval warship, the USS Vincennes, brought down an Iranian passenger jet in the Persian Gulf, killing all 290 people aboard.
1996 – The Stone of Scone was returned to Scotland.
2005 – A national law legalizing same-sex marriage took effect in Spain.
1844 – The last nesting pair of Great Auks was killed. They were found incubating an egg off Iceland. Jón Brandsson and Sigurður Ísleifsson strangled the adults and Ketill Ketilsson smashed the egg with his boot.
1884 – The Dow Jones published its 1st stock average.
1928 - The first colour television transmission took place in London.
1969 - Former Rolling Stones guitarist, Brian Jones (born Lewis Brian Hopkin-Jones) drowned.
1971 - Jim Morrison, the lead singer of American rock group The Doors, was found dead in a bathtub in Paris of heart failure. He was only 27.
1976 - Israeli commandos rescued 103 hostages held by Arab militants at Entebbe airport, Uganda.
1987 - Nazi war criminal Klaus Barbie was sentenced to life imprisonment at a court in Lyon.
1988 - Missiles fired from an American naval warship, the USS Vincennes, brought down an Iranian passenger jet in the Persian Gulf, killing all 290 people aboard.
1996 – The Stone of Scone was returned to Scotland.
2005 – A national law legalizing same-sex marriage took effect in Spain.
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