What day of the week was July 3, 1940?

The day of the week July 3rd, 1940 fell on was a Wednesday.

Lamar Alexander the American lawyer and politician, 5th United States Secretary of Education was born on 03 July in 1940. As was Fontella Bass the American singer-songwriter (d. 2012) , Jerzy Buzek the Polish engineer and politician, 9th Prime Minister of Poland , César Tovar the Venezuelan baseball player (d. 1994) .

Nicolae Bivol the Moldovan politician, Mayor of Chișinău (b. 1882) died on this day in 1940.

World War II: In order to stop the ships from falling into German hands the French fleet of the Atlantic based at Mers El Kébir the is bombarded by the British fleet, coming from Gibraltar, causing the loss of three battleships: Dunkerque, Provence and Bretagne. One thousand two hundred sailors perish.