Today is Friday, July 3, the 184th day of 2015. There are 181 days left in the year.

July 3, 2015 at 12:00a.m.

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On this date in:

1608: The city of Quebec is founded by Samuel de Champlain.

1775: Gen. George Washington takes command of the Continental Army at Cambridge, Mass.

1863: The three-day Civil War Battle of Gettysburg in Pennsylvania ends in a major victory for the North as Confederate troops fail to breach Union positions during an assault known as Pickett’s Charge.

1890: Idaho becomes the 43rd state of the Union.

1913: During a 50th anniversary reunion at Gettysburg, Pa., Civil War veterans re-enact Pickett’s Charge, which ended with embraces and handshakes between the former enemies.

1938: President Franklin D. Roosevelt marks the 75th anniversary of the Battle of Gettysburg by dedicating the Eternal Light Peace Memorial.

1944: During World War II, Soviet forces recapture Minsk from the Germans.

1950: The first carrier strikes of the Korean War take place as the USS Valley Forge, and the HMS Triumph send fighter planes against North Korean targets.

1962: French President Charles de Gaulle signs an agreement recognizing Algeria as an independent state after 132 years of French rule.

1971: Singer Jim Morrison of The Doors dies in Paris at age 27.

1985: The time-travel comedy “Back to the Future,” starring Michael J. Fox and Christopher Lloyd, is released by Universal Pictures.

1988: The USS Vincennes shoots down an Iran Air jetliner over the Persian Gulf, killing all 290 people aboard.

1996: Russians go to the polls to re-elect Boris Yeltsin president over his Communist challenger, Gennady Zyuganov, in a runoff.

2010: President Barack Obama announces the awarding of nearly $2 billion for new solar plants that he said would create thousands of jobs.

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1990: The battle between the gubernatorial campaign of Anthony Celebrezze and Mahoning County Democratic Party Chairman Don L. Hanni Jr. intensifies when lieutenant governor candidate Eugene Branstool declines to respond to Hanni’s criticism, saying, “When a jackass brays, you don’t bray back.”

Warren City Council is seeking a $100,000 state grant to renovate and repair the swimming pool at Packard Park.

For the sixth year in a row, Zambelli Internationale Fireworks of New Castle will provide the July Fourth fireworks for President George Bush’s family at Kennebunkport, Maine, setting off a pyrotechnic display from barges in the Atlantic Ocean.

1975: The Western Reserve Transit Authority receives operating assistance grants of $778,000 from the federal Urban Mass Transit Administration.

Warren Fire Chief Bruce LaBaugh says his department will crack down on Little League and adult teams using gasoline to dry the infield of some city baseball fields. LaBaugh says he was astounded when he heard of the practice of pouring large amounts of gasoline on wet dirt and igniting it.

Damage to Tod Hall at Youngstown State University from flooding during a rainstorm is estimated at $100,000. Some 7,000 books in the lower level of the building were damaged.

1965: The Youngstown Hospital Association reverses its decision to abide by a request by the Mayor’s Human Relations Commission that it not ask patients their religious affiliation. Patients will not be asked for race and national origin information.

Terry Schaefer, New Middletown, is the first Springfield High School student to participate in a foreign-exchange program, leaving to spend the summer with a Spanish-speaking family in Colombia, South America.

Common Pleas Judge Erskine Maiden Jr. orders the Penn-Ohio Dump Truck Association to halt its weeklong work stoppage against seven Youngstown area trucking companies.

1940: Dorothy Sipe, 14, receives treatment as the city’s first Fourth of July fireworks casualty of the year. Also treated at area hospitals are Harold Finney, 17, and Lorine Robinson, 5.

Lt. Col. Ludson D. Worsham is appointed district army engineer at Pittsburgh, putting him in charge of a survey to determine the feasibility of a Lake Erie-Ohio River canal.

Six local men and a woman are interning in Youngstown or out-of-town hospitals. They are Dr. William D. Collier, Dr. David D. Colucci, Dr. William T. Krichbaum, Dr. Louis G. Ralston, Dr. Raymond G. Sheetz, Dr. Charles E. Cassaday and R. Aurelia M. Potor.