Wikipedia:Main Page history/2011 July 3

... that Madmen in the Yard, a drawing by the Croatian painter Ignjat Job (pictured), was influenced by his two-year stay in a mental hospital?

... that Little Marton Mill was built in England in 1838 and restored in 1937 to become a memorial?

... that the United States mediated the 1962 New York Agreement as part of a plan "to prevent Indonesia from falling under communist control and to win it over to the west"?

... that during World War II, the Germans built a bomb- and gas-proof bunker on Jerbourg Point, the southeastern point of Guernsey in the English Channel?

... that Shigeo Satomura pioneered non-invasive monitoring of blood flow in the human body using ultrasonic Doppler techniques in the 1950s?

... that the Philippine play Paglipas ng Dilim ("After the Darkness") tackles the conflicts of mixing cultures from the Philippines, Spain, and the United States?

... that although Norma Lyon studied animal science at Iowa State University, she ended up sculpting butter at state fairs?

Treasure worth at least Image:Indian Rupee symbol.svg 2,500 crore is found at Padmanabhaswamy Temple in Kerala, India.

The wedding of Albert II, Prince of Monaco (pictured), and Charlene Wittstock takes place at the Prince's Palace in Monaco.

Astronomers announce the discovery of ULAS J1120+0641, the most distant quasar yet found.

The Jiaozhou Bay Bridge, the world's longest cross-sea bridge, opens in Shandong, People's Republic of China.

The 1,318 km (819 mi) Beijing–Shanghai High-Speed Railway opens after 39 months of construction.

Amid heavy protests, the Greek parliament passes austerity measures to obtain the latest tranche of a €110 billion EFSF loan.

324 – Roman Emperor Constantine the Great defeated sometime colleague Licinius in the Battle of Adrianople.

1608 – French explorer Samuel de Champlain founded Quebec City (flag pictured), considered to be the first European-built city in non-Spanish North America.

1844 – The last known pair of Great Auks, the only modern species in the genus Pinguinus, were killed in Eldey, off the coast of Iceland.

1940 – World War II: The British Navy attacked the French fleet, fearing that the ships would fall into German hands after the armistice between those two nations.

1970 – The Troubles: The British Army imposed the Falls Curfew on Belfast, Northern Ireland, which only resulted in greater Irish republican resistance.

2005 – Same-sex marriage became legal in Spain.