This Day in History July 3

July 3

1608 City of Quebec founded by Samuel de Champlain
1754 George Washington surrenders to French, Ft Necessity (7 Years' War)
1775 Washington takes command of Continental Army at Cambridge, Mass
1778 British forces massacre 360 men, women & children in Wyoming, Pa
1806 Michael Keens exhibits 1st cultivated strawberry
1814 Americans capture Fort Erie, Canada
1819 1st savings bank in US (Bank of Savings in NYC) opens its doors
1839 1st state normal school in US opens, Lexington, Mass, with 3 students
1852 Congress authorizes US's 2nd mint (San Francisco, Calif)
1861 Pony Express arrives in SF with overland letters from NY
1863 Battle of Gettysburg Pa ends, major victory for North
1890 Idaho admitted as 43rd US state
1898 Joshua Slocum completes 1st solo circumnavigation of the globe
1898 US Navy defeats Spanish fleet in Santiago harbor, Cuba
1913 Common tern banded in Maine; found dead in 1919 in Africa (1st bird known to
have crossed the Atlantic
1915 US military forces occupy Haiti, remain until 1934
1916 1st of 3 fatal shark attacks occurred near NJ shore
1920 Royal Air Force holds an air display at Hendon, England
1930 Veterans Administration created
1934 FDIC pays off 1st insured depositors, Fon du Lac Bank, East Peoria IL
1939 Ernst Heinkel demonstrates 800-kph rocket plane to Hitler
1940 British Royal Navy sinks French fleet in North Africa
1950 1st time US & North Korean forces clash in the Korean War
1962 Algerian Revolution against French ends (Algeria gains ind on 7/5)
1974 Soyuz 14 carries 2 cosmonauts to space station Salyut 3
1984 Dolphin rocket launched off San Clemente Island
1986 Pres Reagan presided over relighting of renovated Statue of Liberty
1987 2 men became 1st hot-air balloon travelers to cross Atlantic
1988 US Navy shoots down Iranian civilian jetliner over Gulf
1989 Supreme Court rules states do not have to provide funds for abortions

You forgot one date. July 3 1942. I was born. Stan

Happy Birthday, Stan!
And many happy returns of the day.

Hendrik, The Netherlands.

I was born in 51 on this date, going to put a picture down in T Tales.

Your entry of 1852 is incorrect. First, San Francisco was NOT the second US mint. There were previous mints in Dahlonega, Georgia, Charlotte, North Carolina, and New Orleans, Louisiana. These mints were authorized by the coinage act of January 18, 1838 to handle the country's needs for coinage. As such, the authorization of the San Francisco mint would make it the FIFTH US mint, and NOT the second.

Happy birthday Stan. Wishing you many more to come.

check out these three sites
btw non of them are any of the 10 I use for my research

http://www.historyorb.com/events/date/1852
http://mistupid.com/cgi-bin/today.pl
http://history.nickeysurf.com/

anything I post on history must be confirmed by at least 5 of my research sites before I post
but as you know popular beliefes in history are proven wrong all the time

I have been a coin collector since I was about 8 or 9 years old. Coins minted at branch mints have always been more desirable to most collectors. Odd issues usually got more attention from me than the more common standard issues. Three-cent, two-cent, 20-cent coins are among the oddest. so, I am most familiar with the "fine points" of those issues.
So, as I was reading through this date in history, I see something that conflicts with what I know to be fact. I have in my possession a coin dated 1851 with a mint mark from New Orleans. Does that make this an unauthorized issue??? So, I got out my Red Book and looked it up. Branch mints were authorized near where gold or silver was mined or sourced to reduce the cost and the risk in shipping across the country. As such, mints were authorized in Georgia, North Carolina, Louisiana, Nevada, and California.

My source is "The Official Red Book of United States Coins" by R. S. Yeoman and published by Whitman Publishing LLC.

FYI - the number of sources you use becomes irrelevant if they all get their information from the same place. In this case, your source(s) are simply wrong.