On This Day - 3rd July

1608 - Quebec founded by French explorer Samuel Champlain
1844 – The last pair of Great Auks are killed
1878 - George M Kohan born.
1883 - Franz Kafka born.
1884 – Dow Jones and Company publishes its first stock average.
1927 - Ken Russell born.
1937 - Tom Stoppard born.

1951 - It is announced that talks to end the Korean war will begin later in July after terms were accepted by General Matthew Ridgway, supreme commander to the UN in the Far-East.
1952 - Alan Autry born.
1956 - Montel Williams born.
1962 – The Algerian War of Independence against the French ends. Also Tom Cruise born.
1966 - Demonstrators in London are arrested after their protest against the Vietnam War turns violent.
1970 - A Dan-Air charter flight from Manchester has goes missing over Spain with 105 holiday-makers and seven crew on board, they wreckage was found the folloing day.

1971 - Jim Morrison, lead singer of American rock group The Doors dies of heart failure in Paris, aged 27.
1987 - The former chief of Gestapo in Lyon, Klaus Barbie, is sentenced to life imprisonment in a Lyon court.
1988 - An American naval warship patrolling in the Persian Gulf shoots down an Iranian passenger jet after apparently mistaking it for a fighter plane, killing almost 300 passengers and crew.
1990 - The day Italy crashed out of their own World Cup in Naples as they went down to Argentina on penalties at the semi-final stage
1994 - A Gheorghe Hagi-inspired upset saw Romania down Argentina in front of 90,469 spectators at the Los Angeles Rose Bowl
2000 - In his first speech as Mayor of London Ken Livingstone announces that he will stand up to the government.