Notable Historical Events on July 4th
July 4th Historical Events
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
836 |
Pactum Sicardi, peace between the Principality of Benevento and the Duchy of Naples |
993 |
Saint Ulrich of Augsburg is canonized. |
1054 |
Brightest known supernova SN 1054 (creates the Crab Nebula) 1st reported by Chinese astronomers |
1120 |
Jordan II of Capua is anointed as prince after his infant nephew's death. |
1187 |
Battle of Hittin (Tiberias): Saladin defeats Reinoud of Châtillon |
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 |
1534 |
Christian III is elected King of Denmark and Norway in the town of Rye. |
1610 |
Battle at Klushino: King Sigismund II beats Russian & 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 |
British Barebones Parliament goes into session |
1672 |
States of Holland declares "Eternal Edict" void |
1693 |
Battle at Boussu-lez-Walcourt: French-English vs Dutch army |
1708 |
Swedish King Karel XII beats Russians |
1754 |
George Washington gives Ft Necessity to France |
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 2nd Continental Congress |
1776 |
US congress proclaims the Declaration of Independence and independence from Britain |
1779 |
French fleet occupies Grenada |
1785 |
James Hutton, geologist, 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 |
1796 |
1st Independence Day celebration is held |
1802 |
US Military Academy officially opens (West Point, NY) |
1803 |
The Louisiana Purchase is announced to the American people. |
1810 |
French troops occupy Amsterdam |
1817 |
Construction on Erie Canal begins at Rome, NY |
1817 |
Chief Engineer James Geddes begins construction on the Erie Canal, one of the first great engineering works in North America |
1819 |
William Herschel makes last telescopic observation of 1819 comet |
1827 |
Slavery abolished in NY |
1828 |
Construction begins on B & O (Baltimore-Ohio) 1st US passenger RR |
1829 |
Cornerstone laid for 1st US mint (Chestnut & Juniper St, Phila) |
1829 |
The first London bus "omnibus", operated by George Shillibeer, begins service between Marylebone Road and Bank Junction |
1831 |
"America (My Country 'Tis of Thee)" is 1st sung in Boston |
1836 |
Wisconsin Territory forms |
1837 |
Grand Junction Railway, the world's first long-distance railway, opens between Birmingham and Liverpool. |
1838 |
Huskar Colliery Mining Disaster in Silkstone England: Mining pit floods during a rainstorm drowning 26 children, leads to the 1842 commission on the employment of children and women in mines which resulted in the banning of female and child labour underground |
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. |
1845 |
Henry David Thoreau moves into his shack on Walden Pond |
1845 |
Texas Congress votes for annexation to US |
1855 |
In Brooklyn, New York, the first edition of Walt Whitman's book of poems, titled Leaves of Grass, is published. |
1861 |
In a special session of 27th Congress Lincoln requests 400,000 troops |
1861 |
Skirmish at Harper's Ferry, WV |
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 |
Battle of Port Royal, SC (Port Royal Ferry) |
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) |
1863 |
General Lee's army withdraws from Gettysburg |
1863 |
Skirmish at Smithburg, TN |
1863 |
Vicksburg, Mississippi surrenders to Union forces |
1864 |
-9] Battle at Chattahoochee River, Georgia |
1865 |
First edition of "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland" is published |
1866 |
Firecracker thrown in wood starts fire destroying half of Portland, Mainee, US |
1868 |
Battle at Ueno, Japan: last Tokugawa armies defeated |
1868 |
In New Zealand, Maori leader Te Kooti and 300 of his followers captured the schooner Rifleman and sailed for New Zealand; the fugitives landed at Whareongaonga six days later |
1873 |
Aquarium opens in Woodward Gardens |
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 SF |
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 |
1881 |
Booker T. Washington establishes Tuskegee Institute (Alabama) |
1882 |
Telegraph Hill Observatory opens in SF |
1883 |
Buffalo Bill Cody presents 1st wild west show, North Platte, Nebr |
1884 |
1st US bullfight held (Dodge City Ks) |
1884 |
Statue of Liberty presented to US in Paris |
1886 |
1st scheduled transcontinental passenger train reaches Pt Moody, BC |
1887 |
The founder of Pakistan, Quaid-i-Azam Muhammad Ali Jinnah, joins Sindh-Madrasa-tul-Islam, Karachi. |
1888 |
1st organized rodeo competition held, Prescott, Ariz |
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 |
17th Wimbledon Women's Tennis: Blanche Hillyard beats C Sterry (4-6 6-4 6-4) |
1900 |
24th Wimbledon Men's Tennis: Reginald Doherty beats S Smith (6-8 6-3 6-1 6-2) |
1900 |
Williams Jennings Bryan nominated as Democratic Party presidential candidate, USA |
1901 |
William Howard Taft, a former Federal judge, is installed as first governor-general of the Philippines and declares amnesty for all insurgents who take an oath of allegiance |
1902 |
Civil government is established in the Philippines by a proclamation from US president Roosevelt, who offers a general amnesty to insurgents |
1903 |
Pacific Cable (SF, Hawaii, Guam, Phil) opens, Pres TR sends message |
1905 |
Phila A's beat Boston Red Sox 4-2 in 20 inning game |
1906 |
Great Britain, France, and Italy declare independence of Ethiopia (Abyssinia), but all lay claim to their own 'spheres of influence' in that land |
1907 |
Tommy Burns KOs Bill Squires in 1 for heavyweight boxing title |
1908 |
NY Giant George "Hooks" Witse no-hits Philadelphia Phillies, 1-0 in 10 inn |
1910 |
Jack Johnson KOs james j jeffries in 15 for heavyweight boxing title |
1910 |
The US Congress pass the Mann-Elkins Act, an important piece of railroad reform legislation |
1910 |
In a mutual defense agreements, Japan and Russia delineate their spheres of interest in Manchuria |
1911 |
105°F (41°C) at Vernon, Vermont (state record) |
1911 |
106°F (41°C) at Nashua, New Hampshire (state record) |
1911 |
White Sox Ed Walsh stops Ty Cobb's 40-game hitting streak as Cobb goes 0 for 4 |
1912 |
Detroit Tiger George Mullen no-hits St Louis Browns, 7-0 |
1912 |
Jack Johnson TKOs Jim Flynn in 9 for heavyweight boxing title |
1913 |
37th Wimbledon Men's Tennis: A F Wilding beats McLoughlin (8-6 6-3 10-8) |
1913 |
30th Wimbledon Women's Tennis: Dorothea Chambers beats W McNair (6-0 6-4) |
1914 |
1st US motorcycle race (300 miles, Dodge City Ks) |
1914 |
31st Wimbledon Women's Tennis: Dorothea Chambers beats E Larcombe (7-5 6-4) |
1914 |
38th Wimbledon Men's Tennis: Norman Brookes beats A Wilding (6-4 6-4 7-5) |
1918 |
Altar dedicated at full-scale replica of Stonehenge at Maryhill, Wa |
1918 |
Ottoman sultan Mehmed VI ascends to the throne. |
1919 |
ADGB (Allgemeine Deutsche Gewerkschaftsbund) party forms |
1919 |
Cincinnati Reds are 10½ games back in NL, & win World Series |
1919 |
Jack Dempsey KOs Jess Willard in Cuba for heavyweight championship |
1923 |
Jack Dempsey beats Tommy Gibbon in 15 for heavyweight boxing title |
1925 |
44 die when Dreyfus Hotel in Boston collapses |
1925 |
45th Wimbledon Mens Tennis: Rene Lacoste beats J Borotra (6-3 6-3 4-6 8-6) |
1925 |
A's Lefty Grove beats Yanks Herb Pennock 1-0 in 15 innings |
1926 |
Baronie soccer team forms in Breda Neth |
1926 |
NSDAP-party forms in Weimar |
1927 |
Ir Sukarno forms PNI (Perserikatan Nasional Indonesia) in Batavia |
1927 |
First flight of the Lockheed Vega. |
1929 |
AM radio station WOWO, Indiana's transmitter burns down |
1930 |
43rd Wimbledon Women's Tennis: Helen Moody beats Elizabeth Ryan (6-2 6-2) |
1931 |
1st fireworks are held at Cleveland Stadium |
1931 |
1st trailside museum opens in Cleveland Metroparks |
1932 |
Bradman scores 260, a North American record, v Western Ontario |
1933 |
Work begins on Oakland Bay Bridge |
1934 |
Jordanians revolt in Amsterdam after reduction in employment |
1934 |
Hungarian physicist Leo Szilard patents the chain-reaction design for the atomic bomb. |
1936 |
49th Wimbledon Women's Tennis: Hull Jacobs beats H Sperling (6-2 4-6 7-5) |
1936 |
League of Nations ends sanctions against Italy after Italian takeover of Abyssinia |
1938 |
1st game at Shribe Park, Phila; Braves beat Phillies 10-5 |
1938 |
France-Turkish friendship treaty |
1939 |
Red Sox Jim Tabor hits 2 grand slams in 1 game |
1939 |
Yankees retire 1st uniform (Lou Gehrig #4), 1st Old Timers Day |
1940 |
British destroys French battle fleet at Oran, Algeria, 1267 die |
1940 |
German occupiers forbids anti-Nazi speeches |
1941 |
Latvia partisans shoot 416 Jews dead |
1941 |
Politburo of Yugoslav communist party reorganizes |
1941 |
Howard Florey & Norman Heatley meet for 1st time, 11 days later they successfully recreate penicillin |
1942 |
1st American bombing mission over enemy-occupied Europe (WW II) |
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 |
1946 |
Anti Jewish riots in Kielce Poland, 42 die |
1946 |
Philippines gains independence from US |
1946 |
President Manuel Roxas was inaugurated as the 5th President of the Philippines and the first president of the Third Republic at the Independence Grandstand in Manila |
1947 |
61st Wimbledon Men's Tennis: Jack Kramer beats Tom P Brown (6-1 6-3 6-2) |
1947 |
76th British Golf Open: Fred Daly shoots a 293 at Royal Liverpool Golf Club |
1950 |
Braves Sid Gordon ties season grand slam record with 4 |
1950 |
Harry Truman signs public law 600 (Puerto Ricans write own constitution) |
1950 |
The first broadcast by Radio Free Europe. |
1952 |
66th Wimbledon Men's Tennis: Frank Sedgman beats J Drobny (4-6 6-2 6-3 6-2) |
1952 |
Canadain Currency, Mint & Exchange Fund Act allows gold coins of $5, $10, and $20 to be minted |
1953 |
60th Wimbledon Women's Tennis: Maureen Connolly beats Doris Hart (8-6 7-5) |
1953 |
Imre Nagy succeeds Matyas Rákosi as premier of Hungary |
1954 |
WMSL (WYUR, now WAFF) TV channel 48 in Huntsville, AL (ABC) begins |
1954 |
West Germany beats Hungary 3-2 for soccer's 5th World Cup in Bern |
1954 |
Dr Sam Sheppard's wife Marilyn is murdered (he is accused of crime) |
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 |
1958 |
72nd Wimbledon Men's Tennis: A Cooper beats N Fraser (3-6 6-3 6-4 13-11) |
1959 |
66th Wimbledon Women's Tennis: Maria Fraser beats Darlene Hard (6-4 6-3) |
1959 |
America's new 49-star flag honoring Alaska statehood unfurled |
1959 |
Cayman Islands separated from Jamaica, made a crown colony |
1960 |
6th LPGA Championship won by Mickey Wright |
1960 |
America's new 50-star flag honoring Hawaiian statehood unfurled |
1960 |
Mickey Mantle is 18th to hit 300 HRs |
1961 |
Walt Disney is one of the two main speakers on the Independence Day in The Rebuild Hills at Skørping in Denmark |
1962 |
Island Records begins |
1962 |
KIKU (now KHNL) TV channel 13 in Honolulu, HI (IND) 1st broadcast |
1964 |
71st Wimbledon Women's Tennis: Maria Fraser beats Margaret Court (64 79 63) |
1964 |
Beachboys' "I Get Around" reaches #1 |
1965 |
20th US Women's Open Golf Championship won by Carol Mann |
1966 |
Beatles attacked in Philippines after (unintentionally) insulting Imelda Marcos |
1966 |
LBJ signs Freedom of Information Act |
1967 |
Opening ceremony of Tassajara Zen Mountain Center |
1967 |
Phillies Clay Dairymple ties NL record of 6 walks in doubleheader |
1968 |
Arthur Kopit's "Indians" premieres in London |
1968 |
Radio astronomy satellite Explorer 38 launched |
1969 |
"Give Peace a Chance" by Plastic Ono Band is released in UK |
1969 |
140,000 attend Atlanta Pop Festival featuring Led Zep & Janis Joplin |
1969 |
76th Wimbledon Women's Tennis: Ann Jones beats Billie J King (36 63 62) |
1969 |
Italian Rumor government resigns |
1969 |
USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR |
1969 |
The Ohio Fireworks Derecho kills 18 Ohioans and destroys over 100 boats on Lake Erie. |
1970 |
100 injured in race rioting in Asbury Park NJ |
1970 |
84th Wimbledon Men's Tennis: John Newcombe beats Ken Rosewall (57 63 62 36 61) |
1970 |
Casey Kasem's "American Top 40" debuts on LA radio |
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 Muruora Island |
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 |
Alan Ayckbourne's "Absurd Person Singular," premieres in London |
1973 |
CARICOM - Caribbean Community & Common Market, forms |
1973 |
In audience with Italian cyclists, Pope Paul VI praises athletes who "offer the magnificent show of a healthy, strong, generous youth" |
1974 |
Mike Marshall goes 9-0 with 3 saves in 20 appearances in 30 days |
1975 |
82nd Wimbledon Women's Tennis: Billie Jean King beats Evonne Goolagong (60 61) |
1975 |
Ted Bundy victim Nancy Baird disappears from Layton, Utah |
1976 |
Opening ceremony of the Dai Bosatsu monastery Catskill Mt NY |
1976 |
Operation Entebbe - Israel rescues 229 Air France hostage passengers In Uganda (3 hostages die along with Ugandan soldiers and Israeli soldier) |
1976 |
Sandra Palmer wins LPGA Bloomington Golf Classic Bicentennial |
1977 |
Cubs use fielder Larry Bittner as a pitcher |
1977 |
Nigel Harrison replaces Gary Valentine as bassist of Blondie |
1977 |
Red Sox wallop a major league-record 8 HRs beating Toronto 9-6 |
1978 |
Memphis fire fighters halt 3-day strike under a court order |
1979 |
Algerian ex-president Ben Bella freed |
1980 |
Nolan Ryan is 4th to strikeout 3,000 |
1981 |
95th Wimbledon Men's Tennis: John McEnroe beats Bjorn Borg (4-6 7-6 7-6 6-4) |
1981 |
Clive Rice 105* out of 143 all out, Notts v Hants at Bournemouth |
1982 |
10th du Maurier Golf Classic (Peter Jackson Classic): Sandra Haynie |
1982 |
4th Space Shuttle Mission-Columbia 4 lands at Edwards AFB |
1982 |
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1982 |
Miguel de la Madrid Hurtado elected president of Mexico |
1982 |
USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR |
1982 |
Yankees bat out of order against Indians in 1st inning |
1983 |
NY Yankee Dave Righetti no-hits the Red Sox |
1984 |
Funeral for S Nakagawa & burial half his ashes next to N Senzaki |
1984 |
Kallicharran gets 206 & 6-32 in a NatWest Trophy game |
1984 |
NY Yankee Phil Niekro is 9th to strikeout 3,000 |
1984 |
Yuri Sedykh of USSR throws hammer a record 86.33 m |
1985 |
Tinker Bell's nightly flight begins |
1987 |
94th Wimbledon Women's Tennis: Martina Navratilova beats Steffi Graf (7-5 6-3) |
1987 |
Discovery moves to Launch Pad 39B for STS-26 mission |
1987 |
Imran Khan takes 300th Test Cricket wicket, only Pakistani to do so |
1987 |
Nazi Klaus Barbie, "Butcher of Lyon" sentenced to life in France |
1988 |
102nd Wimbledon Men's Tennis: Stefan Edberg beats Boris Becker (46 76 64 62) |
1988 |
KC releases pitcher Dan Quisenberry, whose 238 saves are the 4th most |
1988 |
US Navy shoots down Iranian civilian jetliner over Gulf, kills 290 |
1989 |
14 year old actress Drew Barrymore, attempts suicide |
1989 |
Unmanned Russian Mig-23 crashes in Bellegem-Kooigem, Belgium (1 dies) |
1989 |
Red's Tom Browning is 3 outs away from his 2nd career perfect game when Phillie Dickie Thon doubles |
1990 |
400 New Kids on the Block fans treated for heat exhaustion in Minn |
1990 |
France performs nuclear test at Muruora Island |
1990 |
Wrestler Brutus Beefcake injured during para-sailing |
1990 |
2 Live Crew release "Banned in the USA" the lyrics quote Star Spangled Banner & Gettysburg Address |
1992 |
99th Wimbledon Women's Tennis: Steffi Graf beats Monica Seles (6-2 6-1) |
1992 |
John Phillips, rocker (Mamas & Papas), undergoes a liver transplant |
1993 |
107th Wimbledon Mens Tennis: Pete Sampras beats Courier (76 76 36 63) |
1993 |
Brandie Burton wins LPGA Jamie Farr Toledo Golf Classic |
1993 |
Dave Winfield hits 442nd HR to move into 19th place |
1993 |
Pilar Fort crowned 25th Miss Black America |
1993 |
Pizza Hut blimp deflates & lands safely on W 56th street in NYC |
1994 |
Russian manned space craft TM-18 lands |
1994 |
Rwandese Patriotic Front occupies Kigali |
1994 |
USA loses to Brazil 1-0 in 1994 World Cup quarter finals |
1995 |
Birmingham Barracudas play 1st CFL game (vs Winnipeg) |
1996 |
Hot Mail, a free internet E-mail service begins |
1997 |
US space probe Pathfinder lands on Ares Vallis Mars |
1998 |
105th Wimbledon Women's Tennis: Jana Novotná beats Nathalie Tauziat (6-4 7-6) |
1999 |
106th Wimbledon Women's Tennis: Lindsay Davenport beats Steffi Graf (6-4 7-5) |
1999 |
113th Wimbledon Men's Tennis: Pete Sampras beats Andre Agassi (6-3 6-4 7-5) |
2003 |
Los Angeles Lakers star Kobe Bryant is arrested for sexual assault |
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) |
2004 |
111th Wimbledon Womens Tennis: Maria Sharapova beats Serena Williams (6-1 6-4) |
2004 |
118th Wimbledon Men's Tennis: Roger Federer beats Andy Roddick (4-6 7-5 7-6 6-4) |
2005 |
The Deep Impact collider hits the comet Tempel 1. |
2006 |
Space Shuttle program: STS-121 Mission - Space Shuttle Discovery launches at 18:37:55 UTC. |
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. |
2009 |
The Statue of Liberty's crown reopens to the public after 8 years, due to security reasons following the World Trade Center attacks. |
2010 |
117th Wimbledon Women's Tennis: Serena Williams beats Vera Zvonareva (6-3 6-2) |
2010 |
124th Wimbledon Men's Tennis: Rafael Nadal beats Tomáš Berdych (6-3 7-5 6-4) |
2013 |
12 people are killed and 60 are injured in a wave of shootings across Chicago |
2014 |
Rolf Harris is sentenced to 5 years and 9 months for indecently assaulting female minors |
2017 |
North Korea claims it tested first intercontinental missile |
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