Independence Day of the United States, also referred to as the Fourth of July or July Fourth in the U.S., is a federal holiday commemorating the adoption of the Declaration of Independence on July 4, 1776, by the Continental Congress declaring that the thirteen
American colonies regarded themselves as a new nation, the United States of America, and no longer part of the British Empire.
1778 – American Revolutionary War: American forces under George Rogers Clark, brother of William Clark of the Lewis and Clark Expeditiion, capture Kaskaskia during the Illinois campaign.
1863 – American Civil War: The Army of Northern Virginia withdraws from the battlefield after losing the Battle of Gettysburg, signalling an end to the Southern invasion of the North.
1892 – Western Samoa changes the International Date Line. Monday, July 4 occurs twice, resulting in a year with 367 days.
1054 – A supernova, called SN 1054, is seen by the Chinese Song dynasty, Araband possibly Amerindian observers near the star Zeta Tauri. For several months it remains bright enough to be seen during the day. Its remnants form the Crab Nebula.
1744 – The Treaty of Lancaster, in which the Iroquois cedes lands between the Allegheny Mountains and the Ohio River to the British colonies, was signed in Lancaster, Pennsylvania.
1776 – American Revolution: The United States Declaration of Independence is adopted by the Second Continental Congress.
1778 – American Revolutionary War: American forces under George Rogers Clark, brother of William Clark of the Lewis and Clark Expeditiion, capture Kaskaskia during the Illinois campaign.
1803 – The Louisiana Purchase is announced to the American people.
1826 – Thomas Jefferson, third president of the United States, dies the same day as John Adams, second president of the United States, on the fiftieth anniversary of the adoption of the United States Declaration of Independence.
1862 – Lewis Carroll (Charles Lutwidge Dodgson) tells Alice Liddell a story that would grow into Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and its sequels.
1863 – American Civil War: Siege of Vicksburg ― Vicksburg, Mississippi surrenders to Ulysses S. Grant after 47 days of siege. One hundred fifty miles up the Mississippi River, a Confederate Army is repulsed at the Battle of Helena, Arkansas.
1863 – American Civil War: The Army of Northern Virginia withdraws from the battlefield after losing the Battle of Gettysburg, signalling an end to the Southern invasion of the North.
1887 – The founder of Pakistan, Quaid-i-Azam Muhammad Ali Jinnah, joins Sindh-Madrasa-tul-Islam, Karachi.
1892 – Western Samoa changes the International Date Line. Monday, July 4 occurs twice, resulting in a year with 367 days.
1911 – A massive heat wave strikes the northeastern United States, killing 380 people in eleven days and breaking temperature records in several cities.
1939 – Lou Gehrig, recently diagnosed with Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, informs a crowd at Yankee Stadium that he considers himself "The luckiest man on the face of the earth", then announces his retirement from major league baseball.
1941 – World War II: The Burning of the Riga synagogues. The Great Choral Synagogue in German occupied Riga is burned with 300 Jews locked in the basement.
1942 – World War II: The 250 day Siege of Sevastopol in the Crimea ends when the city falls to Axis forces.
1960 – Due to the post-Independence Day admission of Hawaii as the 50th U.S. state on August 21, 1959, the 50-star flag of the United States debuts in Philadelphia, almost ten and a half months later (see Flag Act).
1961 – On its maiden voyage, the Soviet nuclear-powered submarine K-19 suffers a complete loss of coolant flow to its reactor. The crew are able to effect repairs, but 22 of them die of radiation poisoning over the following two years.
1976 – Israeli commandos raid Entebbe airport in Uganda, rescuing all but four of the passengers and crew of an Air France jetliner seized by Palestinian terrorists.
1987 – In France, former Gestapo chief Klaus Barbie (a.k.a. the "Butcher of Lyon") is convicted of crimes against humanity and sentenced to life imprisonment.
2004 – The cornerstone of the Freedom Tower (One World Trade Center) is laid on the World Trade Center site in New York City. The new skyscraper stands on the northwest corner of the 16-acre (6.5 ha) World Trade Center site, on the site of the original 6 World Trade Center. The building is bounded by West Street to the west, Vesey Street to the north, Fulton Street to the south, and Washington Street to the east.
2005 – At 05:52 UTC the impactor of the Deep Impact spacecraft hits the comet Tempel 1.The impact excavated debris from the interior of the nucleus, forming an impact crater. Photographs taken by the spacecraft showed the comet to be more dusty and less icy than had been expected. The impact generated an unexpectedly large and bright dust cloud, obscuring the view of the impact crater.
2012 – The discovery of particles consistent with the Higgs boson at the Large Hadron Collider is announced at CERN. In 2013, François Englert and Peter W. Higgs received the Nobel Prize in Physics for the theoretical and physical discover of the boson.
Today's Births
1883 – Rube Goldberg, American sculptor, cartoonist, and engineer (d. 1970)
1898 – Gertrude Weaver, American super-centenarian (d. 2015)
1911 – Mitch Miller, American singer and producer (d. 2010)
1927 – Marvin Neil Simon, American playwright and screenwriter
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