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Events on the 4th of July in history

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04 Jul 0362 Battle of Mantinea: The Thebans, led by Epaminondas, defeated the Spartans.
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04 Jul 0414 Emperor Theodosius II, age 13, yields power to his older sister Aelia Pulcheria, who reigned as regent and proclaimed herself empress (Augusta) of the Eastern Roman Empire.
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04 Jul 0836 Pactum Sicardi, a peace treaty between the Principality of Benevento and the Duchy of Naples, is signed.
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04 Jul 0993 Ulrich of Augsburg is canonized as a saint.
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04 Jul 1054 Brightest known super-nova (Crab Nebula) starts shining (23 days)
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04 Jul 1054 A supernova is seen by Chinese, Arab and 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.
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04 Jul 1120 Jordan II of Capua is anointed as prince after his infant nephew's death.
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04 Jul 1187 The Crusades: Battle of Hattin: Saladin defeats Guy of Lusignan, King of Jerusalem.
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04 Jul 1253 Battle of West-Capelle: John I of Avesnes defeats Guy of Dampierre.
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04 Jul 1301 Battle at Breukelen: Holland vs. Lichtenberg
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04 Jul 1359 Francesco II Ordelaffi of Forlì surrenders to the Papal commander Gil de Albornoz.
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04 Jul 1415 Angelo Correr becomes Pope Gregory XII
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04 Jul 1453 41 Jewish martyrs burned at stake at Breslau
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04 Jul 1456 Ottoman wars in Europe: The Siege of Nándorfeqhérvár (Belgrade) begins.
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04 Jul 1534 Christian III is elected King of Denmark and Norway in the town of Rye.
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04 Jul 1610 The Battle of Klushino is fought between forces of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth and Russia during the Polish-Muscovite War.
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04 Jul 1634 The city of Trois-Rivières is founded in New France (now Quebec, Canada).
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04 Jul 1636 City of Providence, Rhode Island form
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04 Jul 1653 British Barebones Parliament goes into session
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04 Jul 1672 States of Holland declares "Eternal Edict" void
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04 Jul 1693 Battle at Boussu-lez-Walcourt: French-English vs. Dutch army
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04 Jul 1708 Swedish King Karel XII beats Russians
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04 Jul 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.
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04 Jul 1754 George Washington gives Ft Necessity to France
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04 Jul 1754 French and Indian War: George Washington surrenders Fort Necessity to French Capt. Louis Coulon de Villiers.
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04 Jul 1774 Orangetown Resolutions are adopted in the Province of New York, one of many protests against the British Parliament's Coercive Acts
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04 Jul 1776 Declaration of Independence-US gains independence from Britain
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04 Jul 1776 American Revolution: The United States Declaration of Independence is adopted by the Second Continental Congress.
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04 Jul 1778 American Revolutionary War: American forces under George Clark capture Kaskaskia during the Illinois campaign.
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04 Jul 1779 French fleet occupies Grenada
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04 Jul 1789 1st US tariff act
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04 Jul 1796 1st Independence Day celebration is held
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04 Jul 1802 US Military Academy officially opens (West Point, NY)
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04 Jul 1802 At West Point, New York, the United States Military Academy opens.
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04 Jul 1803 The Louisiana Purchase is announced to the American people.
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04 Jul 1810 French troops occupy Amsterdam
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04 Jul 1817 Construction on Erie Canal begins
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04 Jul 1817 In Rome, New York, construction on the Erie Canal begins.
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04 Jul 1819 William Herschel makes last telescopic observation of 1819 comet
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04 Jul 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.
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04 Jul 1827 Slavery is abolished in New York State.
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04 Jul 1828 Construction begins on B&O (Baltimore-Ohio) 1st US passenger RR
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04 Jul 1829 Cornerstone laid for 1st US mint (Chestnut & Juniper St, Philadelphia)
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04 Jul 1831 Samuel Francis Smith writes My Country, 'Tis of Thee for the Boston, Massachusetts July 4 festivities.
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04 Jul 1832 "America" 1st sung publicly
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04 Jul 1836 Wisconsin Territory forms
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04 Jul 1837 Grand Junction Railway, the world's first long-distance railway, opens between Birmingham and Liverpool.
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04 Jul 1838 The Iowa Territory is organized.
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04 Jul 1845 Henry David Thoreau moves into his shack on Walden Pond
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04 Jul 1845 Texas Congress votes for annexation to US
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04 Jul 1855 In Brooklyn, New York City, the first edition of Walt Whitman's book of poems, Leaves of Grass, is published.
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04 Jul 1861 In a special session of 27th Congress Lincoln requests 400,000 troops
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04 Jul 1862 Lewis Carroll creates Alice in Wonderland for Alice P Liddell
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04 Jul 1862 Lewis Carroll tells Alice Liddell a story that would grow into Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and its sequels.
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04 Jul 1863 Boise, Idaho founded (now capital of Idaho)
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04 Jul 1863 Failed Confederate assault on Helena Arkansas (640 casualties)
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04 Jul 1863 Skirmish at Smithburg, Tennessee
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04 Jul 1863 Vicksburg, Mississippi surrenders to Union forces
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04 Jul 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 was repulsed at the Battle of Helena, Arkansas.
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04 Jul 1863 American Civil War: The Army of Northern Virginia withdrew from the battlefield after losing the Battle of Gettysburg, signalling an end to the Southern invasion of the North.
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04 Jul 1865 1st edition of "Alice in Wonderland" is published
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04 Jul 1865 Alice's Adventures in Wonderland is published.
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04 Jul 1868 Battle at Ueno: last Tokugawa armies defeated
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04 Jul 1873 Aquarium opens in Woodward Gardens
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04 Jul 1875 White Democrats kill several blacks in terrorist attacks in Vicksburg
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04 Jul 1876 1st public exhibition of electric light in San Francisco
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04 Jul 1876 Batholdi visits Bedloe Island, future home of his Statue of Liberty
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04 Jul 1878 Thoroughbred horses Ten Broeck and Mollie McCarty run a match race, recalled in the song Molly and Tenbrooks.
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04 Jul 1879 Africaner Union forms by Rev SJ du Toit at Cape colony
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04 Jul 1879 Battle at Rorkes Drift: Britain ends attack on Zulus
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04 Jul 1879 Anglo-Zulu War: The Zululand capital of Ulundi is captured by British troops and burned to the ground, ending the war and forcing King Cetshwayo to flee.
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04 Jul 1881 Booker T Washington establishes Tuskegee Institute (Alabama)
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04 Jul 1881 In Alabama, the Tuskegee Institute opens.
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04 Jul 1882 Telegraph Hill Observatory opens in San Francisco
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04 Jul 1883 Buffalo Bill Cody presents 1st wild west show, North Platte, Nebr
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04 Jul 1884 1st US bullfight held (Dodge City Ks)
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04 Jul 1884 Statue of Liberty presented to US in Paris
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04 Jul 1886 1st scheduled transcontinental passenger train reaches Pt Moody, BC
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04 Jul 1886 The people of France offer the Statue of Liberty to the people of the United States.
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04 Jul 1886 The first scheduled Canadian transcontinental train arrives in Port Moody, British Columbia.
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04 Jul 1887 The founder of Pakistan, Quaid-i-Azam Muhammad Ali Jinnah, joins Sindh-Madrasa-tul-Islam, Karachi.
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04 Jul 1888 1st organized rodeo competition held in Prescott, Arizona
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04 Jul 1889 Washington state constitutional convention holds 1st meeting
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04 Jul 1892 James Keir Hardie chosen 1st socialist in British Lower house
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04 Jul 1892 Western Samoa changes the International Date Line, so that year it had 367 days, with two occurrences of Monday, July 4.
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04 Jul 1894 Elwood Haynes successfully tests one of 1st US autos at 6 mph
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04 Jul 1894 Republic of Hawaii proclaimed, Sanford B Dole as President
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04 Jul 1894 The short-lived Republic of Hawaii is proclaimed by Sanford B. Dole.
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04 Jul 1895 Katherine Lee Bates publishes "America the Beautiful"
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04 Jul 1898 French liner "La Bourgogne" collides with bark Cromartyshire, 560 die
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04 Jul 1898 US flag hoisted over Wake Island (Spanish-American War)
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04 Jul 1903 Pacific Cable (SF, Hawaii, Guam, Phil) opens, President TR sends message
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04 Jul 1903 Philippine–American War officially is concluded.
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04 Jul 1903 Dorothy Levitt is reported as the first English woman to compete in a 'motor race'.
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04 Jul 1905 Philadelphia Athletics beat Boston Red Sox 4-2 in 20 inning game
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04 Jul 1906 Gr Brit, France and Italy grant Independence to Ethiopia
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04 Jul 1907 Tommy Burns KOs Bill Squires in 1 for heavyweight boxing title
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04 Jul 1908 New York Giant George "Hooks" Witse no-hits Philadelphia Phillies, 1-0 in 10 inn
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04 Jul 1910 Jack Johnson KOs James J Jeffries in 15 for heavyweight boxing title
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04 Jul 1910 African-American boxer Jack Johnson knocks out white boxer Jim Jeffries in a heavyweight boxing match, sparking race riots across the United States.
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04 Jul 1911 Ty Cobb goes 0 for 4 and ends a 40 game hit streak
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04 Jul 1911 A massive heat wave strikes the northeastern United States, killing 380 people in eleven days and breaking temperature records in several cities.
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04 Jul 1912 Detroit Tiger George Mullen no-hits St. Louis Browns, 7-0
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04 Jul 1912 Jack Johnson TKOs Jim Flynn in 9 for heavyweight boxing title
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04 Jul 1913 37th Wimbledon Mens Tennis: A F Wilding beats McLoughlin (86 63 10-8)
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04 Jul 1913 President Woodrow Wilson addresses American Civil War veterans at the Great Reunion of 1913.
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04 Jul 1914 1st US motorcycle race (300 miles, Dodge City Ks)
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04 Jul 1914 The funeral of Archduke Franz Ferdinand and his wife Sophie takes place in Vienna, six days after their assassinations in Sarajevo.
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04 Jul 1918 Altar dedicated at full-scale replica of Stonehenge at Maryhill, Washington
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04 Jul 1918 Ottoman sultan Mehmed VI ascended to the throne.
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04 Jul 1918 World War I: The Battle of Hamel, a successful attack by the Australian Corps against German positions near the town of Le Hamel on the Western Front.
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04 Jul 1918 Bolsheviks killed Tsar Nicholas II of Russia and his family (Julian calendar date).
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04 Jul 1919 ADGB (Allgemeine Deutsche Gewerkschaftsbund) party forms
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04 Jul 1919 Jack Dempsey KOs Jess Willard in Cuba for heavyweight championship
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04 Jul 1923 Jack Dempsey beats Tommy Gibbon in 15 for heavyweight boxing title
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04 Jul 1925 44 die when Dreyfus Hotel in Boston collapses
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04 Jul 1925 45th Wimbledon Mens Tennis: Rene Lacoste beats J Borotra (63 63 46 86)
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04 Jul 1926 Baronie soccer team forms in Breda Neth
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04 Jul 1926 NSDAP-party forms in Weimar
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04 Jul 1926 Knoebels Amusement Resort is opened in Elysburg, Pennsylvania.
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04 Jul 1927 Ir Sukarno forms PNI (Perserikatan Nasional Indonesia) in Batavia
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04 Jul 1927 The Lockheed Vega first flew.
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04 Jul 1930 43rd Wimbledon Womens Tennis: Helen Moody beats Elizabeth Ryan (62 62)
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04 Jul 1931 1st fireworks are held at Cleveland Stadium
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04 Jul 1931 1st trailside museum opens in Cleveland Metroparks
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04 Jul 1932 Bradman scores 260, a North American record, vs. Western Ontario
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04 Jul 1933 Work begins on Oakland Bay Bridge
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04 Jul 1934 Jordanians revolt in Amsterdam after reduction in employment
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04 Jul 1934 Leo Szilard patented the chain-reaction design for the atomic bomb.
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04 Jul 1936 49th Wimbledon Womens Tennis: Hull Jacobs beats H Sperling (62 46 75)
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04 Jul 1936 League of Nations starts sanctions against Italy
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04 Jul 1938 1st game at Shribe Park, Phila; Braves beat Phillies 10-5
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04 Jul 1938 France-Turkish friendship treaty
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04 Jul 1939 Red Sox Jim Tabor hits 2 grand slams in 1 game
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04 Jul 1939 Yankees retire 1st uniform (Lou Gehrig #4), 1st Old Timers Day
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04 Jul 1939 Lou Gehrig, recently diagnosed with Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, informs a crowd at Yankee Stadium that he considered himself "The luckiest man on the face of the earth", then announces his retirement from major league baseball.
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04 Jul 1939 Huỳnh Phú Sổ founds Hòa Hảo Buddhism.
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04 Jul 1940 British destroys French battle fleet at Oran, Algeria, 1267 die
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04 Jul 1940 German occupiers forbids anti-Nazis speeches
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04 Jul 1941 Howard Florey and Norman Heatley meet for 1st time, 11 days later they successfully recreate penicillin
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04 Jul 1941 Latvia partisans shoot 416 Jews dead
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04 Jul 1941 Politburo of Yugoslav communist party reorganizes
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04 Jul 1941 Nazi troops massacre Polish scientists and writers in the captured Ukrainian city of Lviv.
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04 Jul 1941 World War II, the Burning of the Riga synagogues: the Great Choral Synagogue in German occupied Riga was burned with 300 Jews locked in the basement.
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04 Jul 1942 1st American bombing mission over enemy-occupied Europe (WWII)
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04 Jul 1942 US air offensive against Nazi-Germany begins
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04 Jul 1942 World War II: the 250 day Siege of Sevastopol in the Crimea ends when the city falls to Axis forces.
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04 Jul 1943 World War II: The Battle of Kursk, the largest full-scale battle in history and the world's largest tank battle, begins in Prokhorovka village.
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04 Jul 1943 World War II: In Gibraltar, a Royal Air Force B-24 Liberator bomber crashes into the sea in an apparent accident moments after takeoff, killing sixteen passengers on board; only the pilot survives.
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04 Jul 1944 1,100 US guns fire 4th of July salute at German lines in Normandy
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04 Jul 1944 1st Japanese kamikaze attack, US fleet near Iwo Jima
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04 Jul 1944 Allied assault on Carpiquet airport at Caen
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04 Jul 1944 Gestapo arrests German Social Democrat Julius Leber
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04 Jul 1946 Anti Jewish riots in Kielce Poland, 42 die
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04 Jul 1946 Philippines gains independence from US
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04 Jul 1946 After 381 years of near-continuous colonial rule by various powers, the Philippines attains full independence from the United States.
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04 Jul 1947 61st Wimbledon Mens Tennis: Jack Kramer beats Tom P Brown (61 63 62)
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04 Jul 1947 The "Indian Independence Bill" is presented before the British House of Commons, proposing the independence of the Provinces of British India into two sovereign countries: India and Pakistan.
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04 Jul 1950 Braves Sid Gordon ties season grand slam record with 4
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04 Jul 1950 Truman signs public law 600 (Puerto Ricans write own constitution)
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04 Jul 1950 Radio Free Europe first broadcasts.
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04 Jul 1951 A court in Czechoslovakia sentences American journalist William N. Oatis to ten years in prison on charges of espionage.
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04 Jul 1951 William Shockley announced the invention of the junction transistor.
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04 Jul 1952 66th Wimbledon Mens Tennis: Frank Sedgman beats J Drobny (46 62 63 62)
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04 Jul 1952 Canadain Currency, Mint and Exchange Fund Act allows gold coins of $5, $10, and $20 to be minted
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04 Jul 1953 60th Wimbledon Womens Tennis: Maureen Connolly beats D Hart (86 75)
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04 Jul 1954 WMSL (WYUR, now WAFF) TV channel 48 in Huntsville, AL (ABC) begins
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04 Jul 1956 Independence National Historical Park forms in Philadelphia
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04 Jul 1956 US most intense rain fall (1.23" in 1 minute) at Unionville, Maryland
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04 Jul 1957 Dutch 2nd Chamber accepts temporary tax increase
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04 Jul 1958 72nd Wimbledon Mens Tennis: A Cooper beats N Fraser (36 63 64 13-11)
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04 Jul 1959 66th Wimbledon Womens Tennis: Maria Fraser beats Darlene Hard (64 63)
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04 Jul 1959 Cayman Islands separated from Jamaica, made a crown colony
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04 Jul 1960 6th LPGA Championship won by Mickey Wright
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04 Jul 1960 Mickey Mantle is 18th to hit 300 HRs
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04 Jul 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).
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04 Jul 1962 Island Records begins
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04 Jul 1962 KIKU (now KHNL) TV channel 13 in Honolulu, HI (IND) 1st broadcast
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04 Jul 1964 71st Wimbledon Womens Tennis: Maria Fraser beats M Court (64 79 63)
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04 Jul 1966 Beatles attacked in Philippines after insulting Imelda Marcos
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04 Jul 1966 LBJ signs Freedom of Information Act
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04 Jul 1966 U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson signs the Freedom of Information Act into United States law. The act went into effect the next year.
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04 Jul 1967 Opening ceremony of Tassajara Zen Mountain Center
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04 Jul 1967 Phillies Clay Dairymple ties NL record of 6 walks in doubleheader
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04 Jul 1969 "Give Peace a Chance" by Plastic Ono Band is released in the UK
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04 Jul 1969 140,000 attend Atlanta Pop Festival featuring Led Zep and Janis Joplin
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04 Jul 1969 76th Wimbledon Womens Tennis: Ann Jones beats Billie J King (36 63 62)
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04 Jul 1969 Italian Rumor government resigns
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04 Jul 1970 100 injured in race rioting in Asbury Park, New Jersey
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04 Jul 1970 84th Wimbledon Mens Tennis: Newcombe beats K Rosewall (57 63 62 36 61)
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04 Jul 1970 Chartered Dan-Air Comet crashes into mountains north of Barcelona, Spain killing 112 vacationing Britons
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04 Jul 1973 CARICOM - Caribbean Community and Common Market, forms
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04 Jul 1973 In audience with Italian cyclists, Pope Paul VI praises athletes who "offer the magnificent show of a healthy, strong, generous youth"
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04 Jul 1974 Mike Marshall goes 9-0 with 3 saves in 20 appearances in 30 days
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04 Jul 1975 82nd Wimbledon Womens Tennis: Billie Jean King beats Goolagong (60 61)
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04 Jul 1975 Fictional wedding date of Coneheads
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04 Jul 1976 Opening ceremony of the Dai Bosatsu monastery Catskill Mt, New York
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04 Jul 1976 Raid on Entebbe-Israel rescues 229 Air France passengers
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04 Jul 1976 Sandra Palmer wins LPGA Bloomington Golf Classic Bicentennial
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04 Jul 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.
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04 Jul 1977 Cubs use fielder Larry Bittner as a pitcher
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04 Jul 1977 Nigel Harrison replaces Gary Valentine as bassist of Blondie
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04 Jul 1977 Red Sox wallop a major league-record 8 HRs beating Toronto 9-6
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04 Jul 1977 The George Jackson Brigade plants a bomb at the main power substation for the Washington state capitol in Olympia, in solidarity with a prison strike at the Walla Walla State Penitentiary Intensive Security Unit
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04 Jul 1978 Memphis fire fighters halt 3-day strike under a court order
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04 Jul 1979 Algerian ex-President Ben Bella freed
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04 Jul 1980 Nolan Ryan is 4th to strikeout 3,000
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04 Jul 1982 10th du Maurier Golf Classic (Peter Jackson Classic): Sandra Haynie
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04 Jul 1982 4th Space Shuttle Mission-Columbia 4 lands at Edwards AFB
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04 Jul 1982 96th Wimbledon Mens Tennis: J Connors beats J McEnroe (36 63 67 76 64)
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04 Jul 1982 Miguel de la Madrid Hurtado elected President of Mexico
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04 Jul 1982 Yankees bat out of order against Indians in 1st inning
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04 Jul 1982 Four Iranian diplomats are abducted by Lebanese militia in Lebanon.
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04 Jul 1983 New York Yankee Dave Righetti no-hits the Red Sox
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04 Jul 1984 Funeral for S Nakagawa and burial half his ashes next to N Senzaki
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04 Jul 1984 Kallicharran gets 206 and 6-32 in a NatWest Trophy game
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04 Jul 1984 New York Yankee Phil Niekro is 9th to strikeout 3,000
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04 Jul 1984 Yuri Sedykh of the USSR throws hammer a record 86.33 m
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04 Jul 1987 94th Wimbledon Womens Tennis: M Navratilova beats Steffi Graf (75 63)
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04 Jul 1987 Discovery moves to Launch Pad 39B for STS-26 mission
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04 Jul 1987 Nazi Klaus Barbie, "Butcher of Lyon" sentenced to life in France
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04 Jul 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.
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04 Jul 1988 102nd Wimbledon Mens Tennis: Stefan Edberg beats Becker (46 76 64 62)
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04 Jul 1988 Kansas City releases pitcher Dan Quisenberry, whose 238 saves are the 4th most
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04 Jul 1988 US navy shoots down Iranian civilian jetliner over Gulf, kills 290
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04 Jul 1989 14 year old actress Drew Barrymore, attempts suicide
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04 Jul 1989 Unmanned Russian Mig-23 crashes in Bellegem-Kooigem, Belgium (1 dies)
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04 Jul 1990 2 Live Crew release "Banned in the USA" the lyrics quote Star Spangled Banner and Gettysburg Address
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04 Jul 1990 400 New Kids on the Block fans treated for heat exhaustion in Minnesota
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04 Jul 1990 Wrestler Brutus Beefcake injured during para-sailing
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04 Jul 1992 99th Wimbledon Womens Tennis: Steffi Graf beats Monica Seles (62 61)
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04 Jul 1992 John Phillips, rocker (Mamas & Papas), undergoes a liver transplant
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04 Jul 1992 US actress Bobbie Eakes marries Author David Stone
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04 Jul 1993 107th Wimbledon Mens Tennis: Pete Sampras beats Courier (76 76 36 63)
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04 Jul 1993 Brandie Burton wins LPGA Jamie Farr Toledo Golf Classic
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04 Jul 1993 Dave Winfield hits 442nd HR to move into 19th place
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04 Jul 1993 Pilar Fort, crowned 25th Miss Black America
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04 Jul 1993 Pizza Hut blimp deflates and lands safely on W 56th street in New York City
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04 Jul 1994 Russian manned space craft TM-18, lands
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04 Jul 1994 Rwandese Patriot Front occupies Kigali
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04 Jul 1994 US loses to Brazil 1-0 in 1994 World Cup quarter finals
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04 Jul 1994 Rwandan Genocide: Kigali, the Rwandan capital, is captured by the Rwandan Patriotic Front, ending the genocide in the city.
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04 Jul 1995 Birmingham Barracudas play 1st CFL game (vs. Winnipeg)
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04 Jul 1996 Hot Mail, a free internet E-mail service begins
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04 Jul 1997 US space probe Pathfinder lands on Ares Vallis Mars
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04 Jul 1997 NASA's Pathfinder space probe lands on the surface of Mars.
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04 Jul 1998 Japan launches the Nozomi probe to Mars, joining the United States and Russia as a space exploring nation.
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04 Jul 2004 The cornerstone of the Freedom Tower is laid on the site of the World Trade Center in New York City.
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04 Jul 2005 The Deep Impact collider hits the comet Tempel 1.
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04 Jul 2009 The Statue of Liberty's crown reopens to the public after eight years of closure due to security concerns following the September 11 attacks.
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04 Jul 2012 The discovery of particles consistent with the Higgs boson at the Large Hadron Collider is announced at CERN.
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04 Jul 2013 The Death of Hung Chung-chiu: A Republic of China Army corporal dies under suspicious circumstances while serving a detention sentence during his enlisted service.
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