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Fireworks over the Washington Monument
The U.S. Declaration of Independence
The Grand Union Flag of the Thirteen Colonies in 1776
Crab Nebula
A Waffen-SS Tiger I engages another tank
Alice Liddell
Brazilian cruiser Bahia
Tempel 1, after the Deep Impact collision
Bipolar junction transistor
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1187 –
Saladin defeated
Guy of Lusignan ,
King of Jerusalem , at the
Battle of Hattin and captured the
True Cross .
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1610 –
Polish–Muscovite War : The outnumbered forces of the
Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth defeated the
Tsardom of Russia at the
Battle of Klushino .
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1802 - In
West Point, New York , the
United States Military Academy began operations.
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1892 –
Western Samoa changed the
International Date Line , causing Monday (July 4) to occur twice, resulting in a year with 367 days.
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1894 – The
Republic of Hawaiʻi was proclaimed at
Aliʻiolani Hale in
Honolulu , with
Sanford B. Dole as the first president.
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1898 – The French ocean liner
SS La Bourgogne collided another ship in dense fog near
Sable Island and sank, resulting in 549 deaths, mostly passengers.
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1943 –
World War II : Fighting began in the
Battle of Kursk , the largest full-scale battle in history as well as the largest series of
armoured clashes .
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2002 – American aviator
Steve Fossett became the first person to fly solo nonstop
around the world in a balloon, completing an almost 14-day trip after landing in
Queensland , Australia.
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2012 –
CERN announced the initial discovery of the
Higgs boson
elementary particle after
a 40-year search for its existence.
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Saint Ulrich of Augsburg (Catholicism);
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414 – Byzantine emperor
Theodosius II proclaimed his older sister
Aelia Pulcheria as
Augusta .
1054 –
Chinese astronomers recorded the sudden appearance of a "
guest star ", later identified as
the supernova that created the
Crab Nebula .
1776 – In Philadelphia, the
Continental Congress adopted the
Declaration of Independence , announcing that the
thirteen American colonies were no longer a part of the
British Empire .
1837 – The
Grand Junction Railway , the world's first long-distance railway with
steam traction , opened between
Birmingham and
Newton Junction .
1855 – The first edition of
Walt Whitman 's
Leaves of Grass was published, and it went on to become one of the most important collections of
American poetry .
1862 – In a boat on the
River Thames from
Oxford to
Godstow , author
Lewis Carroll told
Alice Liddell (pictured) and her sisters a story that later formed the basis for his book
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland .
1863 –
American Civil War :
Confederate forces failed in
an attempt to recapture the
Union -occupied
Helena, Arkansas .
1918 –
World War I :
Allied forces led by the Australian general
John Monash won the
Battle of Hamel , demonstrating the effectiveness of
combined-arms techniques in
trench warfare .
1941 –
German AB-Aktion in Poland : After capturing
Lwów , the Nazis
executed professors of the
University of Lwów along with their families.
1941 –
The Holocaust : During the
German occupation of Latvia , a number of synagogues in Riga
were set on fire , killing many Jews who were confined within.
1950 – The United States'
anti-communist propaganda source
Radio Free Europe made its first broadcast aimed at Czechoslovakia.
1951 –
William Shockley announced the invention of the
junction transistor , for which he,
John Bardeen , and
Walter Houser Brattain later won the
Nobel Prize in Physics .
1954 – In what is known as "
The Miracle of Bern ",
West Germany defeated
Hungary 3–2 to win the
FIFA World Cup .
1954 – Four
CIA officers arrived in Guatemala to begin
Operation PBHistory in an attempt to justify the United States'
overthrow of President
Jacobo Árbenz one week prior.
1965 – The first
Annual Reminder , a series of
pickets that were some of the
earliest LGBT actions in the United States , took place at
Independence Hall in Philadelphia.
1976 –
Israeli forces
raided Uganda's
Entebbe International Airport to free hostages taken by hijackers on Air France Flight 139.
1982 –
Four Iranian diplomats were kidnapped after they were stopped at a checkpoint in northern Lebanon by
Lebanese Phalange forces; their fates remain unknown.
2005 – The impactor of the
NASA space probe
Deep Impact collided with the comet
Tempel 1 , excavating interior material to study its composition.
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Usama ibn Munqidh |b|1095|
Raynald of Châtillon |d|1187|
Elizabeth of Portugal |d|1336|
Min Phalaung |d|1593|
Brian Twyne |d|1644|
John Leake |b|1656|
Christian Fürchtegott Gellert |b|1715|
Samuel Richardson |d|1761|
John Adams and
Thomas Jefferson |d|1826|
Hubert Cecil Booth |b|1871|
Jack Warhop |b|1884|
Poundmaker |d|1886|
Geraldo Rivera |b|1943|
Andre Spitzer |b|1945
Sonia Pierre |b|1963|
Yonatan Netanyahu |d|1976
July 4 :
Republic Day in the Philippines (
1946 );
Independence Day in the United States (
1776 )
The Brazilian cruiser Bahia