Events in History on July 4

Publish date: 2024-08-05

July 4 Calendar

Events 1 - 200 of 205

Battle of Hattin

1187 Battle of Hattin: Muslim armies under Saladin defeat Crusader forces near Tiberias in present-day Israel

1301 Battle at Breukelen: Holland vs Lichtenberg
1359 Francesco II Ordelaffi of Forlì surrenders to the Papal commander Gil de Albornoz.
1415 Angelo Correr renounces his claim to the Papacy as Pope Gregory XII
1453 41 Jewish martyrs burned at stake at Breslau

King Christian III

1534 Christian III is elected King of Denmark and Norway in the town of Rye

Battle of Klushino

1610 Battle of Klushino: King Sigismund III's Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth army defeats Russia and Sweden

1634 The city of Trois-Rivières is founded in New France, later to become the Canadian province of Quebec
1636 City of Providence, Rhode Island form
1652 Prince of Condé starts blood bath in Paris
1653 English Barebones Parliament goes into session

William III

1672 States of Holland declare the "Eternal Edict" void and appoint William III as stadholder

1693 Battle at Boussu-lez-Walcourt: French-English vs Dutch army

Battle of Holowczyn

1708 Battle of Holowczyn: Swedish King Charles XII defeats superior Russian force in surprising vctory

1774 Orangetown Resolutions adopted in the Province of New York, one of many protests against the British Parliament's Coercive Acts

1776 According to popular legend the Liberty Bell rings for the Second Continental Congress

1776 US Congress proclaims the Declaration of Independence and independence from Great Britain

1779 French fleet occupies Grenada

Uniformitarianism

1785 Geologist James Hutton publicly reads an abstract of his theory of uniformitarianism for the first time at the meeting of the Royal Society of Edinburgh

1789 1st US tariff act signed by President Washington
1796 1st Independence Day celebration is held
1802 1st US Military Academy opens at West Point, NY

Louisiana Purchase

1803 The Louisiana Purchase is announced to the American people by President Thomas Jefferson

1810 French troops occupy Amsterdam
1817 Chief Engineer James Geddes begins construction on the Erie Canal, (Rome, New York), one of the first great engineering works in North America

Herschel Sees Comet for Last Time

1819 William Herschel makes last telescopic observation of 1819 comet

1826 Past presidents Thomas Jefferson and John Adams both die on the 50th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence, President John Quincy Adams calls "visible and palpable remarks of Divine Favor"

1827 Slavery abolished in New York
1828 Construction begins on B & O (Baltimore-Ohio) 1st US passenger RR
1829 Cornerstone laid for 2nd US mint at Chestnut and Juniper St, Philadelphia, the "Grecian Temple"
1829 The first London bus "omnibus", operated by George Shillibeer, begins service between Marylebone Road and Bank Junction
1836 Wisconsin Territory forms
1837 Grand Junction Railway, the world's first long-distance railway, opens between Birmingham and Liverpool
1838 Huskar Pit Disaster: 26 children drown trying to escape flooding in the Silkstone Colliery in England. Leads to the 1842 Mines Act, which bans women and children working underground. [1]
1838 Iowa Territory is organised from Wisconsin Territory, lasting until 1846
1840 The Cunard Line's 700 ton wooden paddle steamer RMS Britannia departs from Liverpool bound for Halifax, Nova Scotia on the first transatlantic crossing with a scheduled end

Thoreau On Walden Pond

1845 American philosopher and naturalist Henry David Thoreau moves into his shack on Walden Pond

1845 Texas Congress votes for annexation to US

Leaves of Grass

1855 In Brooklyn, New York, the first edition of Walt Whitman's book of poems, "Leaves of Grass" is published

1861 In a special session of 27th Congress Lincoln requests 400,000 troops
1861 Skirmish at Harper's Ferry, West Virginia

Alice in Wonderland

1862 Charles Dodgson (Lewis Carroll) creates Alice in Wonderland for Alice Liddell on a family boat trip on the river Isis (Thames) in Oxford

1862 R Morgan's: Tomkinsville, KY to Somerset, KY [->JUL 28]
1863 Boise, Idaho, founded (now capital of Idaho)
1863 Failed Confederate assault on Helena Arkansas (640 casualties)

Withdrawal from Gettsburg

1863 General Lee's army withdraws from Gettysburg

1863 Skirmish at Smithburg, Tennessee
1863 Vicksburg, Mississippi surrenders to Union forces
1865 First edition of "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland" by Lewis Carroll is published
1866 Firecracker thrown in wood starts fire destroying half of Portland, Maine, US
1867 The Republican Party of Texas is founded in Houston, with a goal regaining admittance to the union after the US Civil War
1868 Battle at Ueno, Japan: last Tokugawa armies defeated
1868 Maori leader Te Kooti and 300 of his followers captured the schooner Rifleman in the Chatham Islands and sail for New Zealand; landing at Whareongaonga six days later
1873 Aquarium opens in Woodward Gardens, San Francisco
1874 Social Democratic Workmen's Party of North America formed
1875 White Democrats kill several blacks in terrorist attacks in Vicksburg
1876 1st public exhibition of electric light in San Francisco
1876 Batholdi visits Bedloe Island, future home of his Statue of Liberty
1879 Africaner Union forms by Rev SJ du Toit at Cape colony
1879 Battle at Ulundi: Lord Chelmsford beats Zulu King Cetshwayo

1882 Telegraph Hill Observatory opens in San Francisco
1883 Buffalo Bill Cody presents 1st wild west show, North Platte, Nebraska
1884 1st US bullfight held (Dodge City Ks)

1884 Statue of Liberty presented to US in Paris

1886 1st scheduled transcontinental passenger train reaches Port Moody, British Columbia

Muhammad Ali Jinnah Begins Studies

1887 Future founder of Pakistan, Muhammad Ali Jinnah, begins his studies at Sindh Madressatul Islam University in Karachi

1888 1st organized rodeo competition held, Prescott, Arizona
1889 Washington state constitutional convention holds 1st meeting
1892 James Keir Hardie chosen 1st socialist in British Lower house
1892 Western Samoa changes the International Date Line, so that year there were 367 days in this country, with two occurrences of Monday, July 4
1894 Elwood Haynes successfully tests one of 1st US autos at 6 MPH
1894 Republic of Hawaii proclaimed, Sanford B Dole as president
1895 Katherine Lee Bates publishes "America the Beautiful"
1898 French liner "La Bourgogne" collides with bark Cromartyshire, 560 die
1898 US flag hoisted over Wake Island (Spanish–American War)
1900 Williams Jennings Bryan nominated as Democratic Party presidential candidate, USA

1st Governor-General of the Philippines

1901 Former US Federal judge William Howard Taft is installed as the 1st Governor-General of the Philippines, declares an amnesty for all insurgents who take an oath of allegiance

Civil Government

1902 Civil government is established in the Philippines by a proclamation from US President Theodore Roosevelt, who offers a general amnesty to insurgents

1903 Pacific Cable (San Francisco, Hawaii, Guam, Philippines) opens, President Theodore Roosevelt sends a message
1906 Great Britain, France, and Italy declare independence of Ethiopia (Abyssinia), but all lay claim to their own 'spheres of influence' in that land
1909 British Secret Service Bureau forms foreign section, the Secret Intelligence Service (SIS), commonly known as MI6
1910 In a mutual defense agreements, Japan and Russia delineate their spheres of interest in Manchuria
1910 The US Congress pass the Mann-Elkins Act, an important piece of railroad reform legislation
1911 105°F (41°C) at Vernon, Vermont (state record)
1911 106°F (41°C) at Nashua, New Hampshire (state record)
1912 Detroit Tiger George Mullen no-hits St Louis Browns, 7-0

1917 Troops of the Russian Provisional Government open fire on protesters in Petrograd during the 'July Days' of unrest

1918 Altar dedicated at full-scale replica of Stonehenge at Maryhill, Washington

1918 The last Ottoman Sultan ascends the throne, Sultan Mehmed VI, who rules until the monarchy is abolished in 1922

1919 ADGB (Allgemeine Deutsche Gewerkschaftsbund) party forms
1920 The provisional government of Siberia's Maritime Province agrees to hand over parts of the strategic oil- and coal-rich Sakhalin Islands to Japan
1924 Italian immigrant chef Caesar Cardini, creates his famous salad for the very first time, at his restaurant in Tijuana, Mexico [1]
1925 The former Dreyfus Hotel collapses in Boston, Massachusetts, killing 44 of an estimated 200 patrons dancing in the second floor Pickwick Club
1926 NSDAP-party forms in Weimar
1927 First flight of the Lockheed Vega, a pilot plus four-passenger monoplane; its 225 HP engine allowed cruising speed of 120 MPH

Sukarno Forms Independence Party

1927 Sukarno and friends form the pro-Indonesian independence party, the PNI (Perserikatan Nasional Indonesia) in Batavia, Dutch East Indies

1929 AM radio station WOWO, Indiana's transmitter burns down
1931 1st fireworks are held at Cleveland Stadium
1931 1st trailside museum opens in Cleveland Metroparks
1933 Work begins on Oakland Bay Bridge

Atomic Chain-reaction Patented

1934 Hungarian physicist Leó Szilárd patents the chain-reaction design for the atomic bomb

1934 Jordanians revolt in Amsterdam after reduction in employment
1936 League of Nations ends sanctions against Italy after Italian takeover of Abyssinia
1938 France-Turkish friendship treaty
1940 WWII: British Navy bombards neutral French battle fleet at Mers El Kébir, near Oran, French Algeria to prevent Axis powers from taking the ships; 1267 French serviceman die, one ship sunk and 5 more damaged

Penicillin Creators Met

1941 Howard Florey and Norman Heatley meet for 1st time, 11 days later they successfully recreate penicillin

1941 Latvia partisans shoot 416 Jews dead
1941 Politburo of Yugoslav communist party reorganizes
1942 1st American bombing missions over Nazi Germany-occupied Europe (WWII)

1942 Siege of Sevastopol ends with the surrender of Soviet forces and after massive German bombing raids that leave just 11 city buildings undamaged

1942 US air offensive against Nazi Germany begins
1944 1,100 US guns fire 4th of July salute at German lines in Normandy

1944 1st Japanese kamikaze attack, US fleet near Iwo Jima

1944 Allied assault on Carpiquet airport at Caen
1944 Gestapo arrests German Social Democrat Julius Leber
1945 Field Marshal Henry Maitland Wilson gives Britain's agreement to use the atomic bomb against Japan at the Combined Policy Committee in Washington D. C.
1946 Anti Jewish riots in Kielce Poland, 42 die
1946 Philippines gains independence from US

President Manuel Roxas

1946 President Manuel Roxas inaugurated as the 5th President of the Philippines and the 1st President of an independent Philippines at the Independence Grandstand, Manila

1950 Harry Truman signs public law 600 (Puerto Ricans write own constitution)
1950 The first broadcast by Radio Free Europe.
1952 Canadian Currency, Mint and Exchange Fund Act allows gold coins of $5, $10, and $20 to be minted
1953 Imre Nagy succeeds Matyas Rákosi as premier of Hungary
1954 Dr Sam Sheppard's wife Marilyn is murdered (he is accused of the crime)
1954 Meat and all other food rationing officially ends in Britain, nine years after the end of World War II
1956 Independence National Historical Park forms in Philadelphia
1956 US most intense rain fall (1.23" in 1 minute) at Unionville Maryland
1957 Dutch 2nd Chamber accepts temporary tax increase
1959 America's new 49-star flag honoring Alaska statehood unfurled
1959 Cayman Islands separated from Jamaica, made a crown colony
1959 Island Records founded in Jamaica
1960 America's new 50-star flag honoring Hawaiian statehood unfurled

Freedom of Information Act

1966 LBJ signs Freedom of Information Act

1967 Opening ceremony of Tassajara Zen Mountain Center

Indians

1968 Arthur Kopit's play "Indians" based on the life of Buffalo Bill Cody premieres in London with the Royal Shakespeare Company

1968 Radio astronomy satellite Explorer 38 launched
1969 The Ohio Fireworks Derecho kills 18 Ohioans and destroys over 100 boats on Lake Erie.
1969 USSR performs nuclear test at the Semipalatinsk Test Site in northeast Kazakhstan
1970 100 injured in race rioting in Asbury Park, NJ
1970 Chartered Dan-Air Comet crashes into mountains north of Barcelona, Spain killing 112 vacationing Britons
1970 The Falls Road curfew in North Ireland, imposed by the British Army while searching for IRA weapons, continues throughout the day; a man is killed by the British Army
1971 France performs nuclear test at Mururoa Atoll
1972 The Royal Ulster Constabulary forward a file about the killings on 'Bloody Sunday' (30 January 1972) to the Director of Public Prosecutions for Northern Ireland
1973 CARICOM - Caribbean Community & Common Market, forms

Nancy Baird Disappears

1975 Ted Bundy victim Nancy Baird disappears from Layton, Utah

1976 Israel launches hostage rescue mission of 106 Air France crew and passengers held at Entebbe Airport in Uganda by pro-Palestinian hijackers. Three hostages die along with all the hijackers, numerous Ugandan soldiers and Yonatan Netanyahu, an Israeli soldier
1976 Opening ceremony of the Dai Bosatsu monastery Catskill Mt NY
1978 Memphis fire fighters halt 3-day strike under a court order
1979 Algerian ex-president Ahmed Ben Bella is freed after spending over a decade under house arrest
1982 4th NASA Space Shuttle Mission: Columbia 4 (STS-4) lands at Edwards AFB
1982 Miguel de la Madrid Hurtado elected president of Mexico
1982 USSR performs nuclear test at the Semipalatinsk Test Site in northeast Kazakhstan
1984 Funeral for S Nakagawa and burial of half his ashes next to N Senzaki
1987 Discovery moves to Launch Pad 39B for STS-26 mission

Butcher of Lyon Sentenced

1987 Nazi Klaus Barbie, "Butcher of Lyon" sentenced to life imprisonment in France

1988 US Navy shoots down Iranian civilian jetliner over Gulf, kills 290
1989 Unmanned Russian Mig-23 crashes in Bellegem-Kooigem, Belgium (1 dies)
1990 400 New Kids on the Block fans treated for heat exhaustion in Minnesota
1990 France performs nuclear test at Mururoa Atoll
1993 Pilar Fort crowned 25th Miss Black America
1993 Pizza Hut blimp deflates and lands safely on W 56th street in NYC
1994 Rwandese Patriotic Front occupies Kigali
1996 Hot Mail, a free internet E-mail service begins
1997 Amado Carrillo Fuentes undergoes plastic surgery in Mexico City to change his appearance
1997 US space probe Pathfinder lands on Ares Vallis Mars
2002 Early morning house fire claims lives of 3 children and 3 firefighters in Gloucester City, New Jersey; careless cigarette smoking the likely cause
2004 The cornerstone of the Freedom Tower is laid on the site of the World Trade Center in New York City. (This was largely a symbolic event; actual construction would not start for several weeks)
2005 The Deep Impact collider hits the comet Tempel 1
2006 North Korea tests four short-range missiles, one medium-range missile, and a long-range Taepodong-2. The long-range Taepodong-2 reportedly fails in mid-air over the Sea of Japan/East Sea.

Branson Sells Virgin Mobile

2006 Richard Branson sells Virgin Mobile to NTL for £962.4 million

2006 Space Shuttle program: STS-121 Mission - Space Shuttle Discovery launches at 18:37:55 UTC.
2009 The Statue of Liberty's crown reopens to the public after 8 years, due to security reasons following the World Trade Center attacks
2012 12th century manuscript Codex Calixtinus from Santiago de Compostela Cathedral, Spain, rediscovered, after been stolen, in the garage of an employee of the cathedral [1]
2012 Scientists at CERN's Large Hadron Collider announce the discovery of a new particle consistent with the Higgs boson, the so-called 'God particle'
2013 12 people are killed and 60 are injured in a wave of shootings across Chicago
2015 Matt "Megatoad" Stonie, in an upset, defeats 8x hot dog eating champion Joey "Jaws" Chestnut at Nathan's Famous, Coney Island with 62 hot dogs
2015 Unesco grants World Heritage Status to vineyards in Champagne, France along with Singapore's Botanical Gardens, Diyarbakir Fortress (Turkey) and Maymand Caves (Iran)
2016 NASA's Juno spacecraft successfully enters Jupiter's orbit
2017 North Korea test fires it’s first successful intercontinental ballistic missile into the Sea of Japan
2018 Chinese technology company Baidu announces it has begun mass production of self-driving buses, the 14-seat Apolong
2018 Hong Kong'stop court rules same-sex couples entitled to equal visa rights in landmark case
2018 Wildfire in Yolo county, California, grows to 82,700 acres with 2,800 fire fighters battling the blaze
2019 Biggest seaweed bloom in the world, the Great Atlantic Sargassum Belt stretches from West Africa to the Gulf of Mexico after algae explosion due to deforestation and fertiliser

Claim Tutankhamun Bust Stolen

2019 Egypt claims 3,000-year-old Tutankhamun bust is stolen as it sells for $6 million at auction at Christies

2019 Largest earthquake in California in 20 years 6.4 magnitude near Ridgecrest
2019 Notorious Dutch crime boss Willem Holleeder sentenced to life for ordering five murders in Amsterdam
2019 Record temperatures in Alaska as Anchorage reaches 90F (32C)

2019 UN accuses Venezuelan government of using death squads and policy of installing fear to remove opposition with 5,287 people killed in 2018 for supposedly resisting arrest

Trumps' Salute to America Celebration

2019 US President Donald Trump holds a “Salute to America” Fourth of July celebration in Washington, D.C., controversial for its emphasis on the military and presence of tanks

2019 US publication Mad Magazine announces it will stop publishing new material after 67 years
2020 Record rain in over island of Kyushu in Japan causes flooding killing a least 37 people with evacuation of more than 200,00
2021 Columbus Blue Jackets' 24-year-old Latvian goaltender Matīss Kivlenieks is killed when accidentally struck by fireworks at the home of team goaltending coach Manny Legace in Novi, Michigan

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