Portal:Speculative fiction/Anniversaries/July/July 3
Film releases
- 1985 - Back to the Future, an American science fiction adventure comedy film directed by Robert Zemeckis
- 1991 - Terminator 2: Judgment Day, an American science fiction action film directed, co-written and co-produced by James Cameron
- 2002 - Men in Black II, an American science fiction film starring Tommy Lee Jones and Will Smith
- Transformers toy line
Television series
- 1965 - The Time Meddler, a serial in the British science fiction television series Doctor Who, begins airing on BBC
Births
- 1898 - E. Hoffmann Price (d. 1988), an American writer of popular fiction for the pulp magazine marketplace
- 1926 - William Rotsler (d. 1997), an American author of science fiction novels and short stories, as well as television and film novelizations
- 1928 - Georges-Jean Arnaud, a French author of espionage thrillers, detective fiction, science fiction, horror, erotic fiction, and mainstream literature
Deaths
- 1920 - Charles E. Carryl (b. 1841), an American children's literature author
Anniversaries and events
- 1863 - The date on which the fictional "Weird West" setting of the Western/horror alternate history roleplaying game Deadlands deviates from actual history
- 1947 - This is one of the dates on which the Roswell incident occurred
- 1971 - The Kansas City Science Fiction and Fantasy Society is founded