WillDekkard
07-04-2010, 05:10 AM
Hear are some notable events that happened on This Date in History
- July 4th
4771
INDEPENDENCE DAY
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* 836 Pactum Sicardi, peace between the Principality of Benevento and the Duchy of Naples
* 993 Saint Ulrich of Augsburg is canonized.
* 1054 A supernova is observed by the Chinese, the Arabs and possibly Amerindians near the star Tauri. For several months it remains bright enough to be seen during the day. Its remnants form the Crab Nebula.
* 1120 Jordan II of Capua is anointed as prince after his infant nephew's death.
* 1187 The Crusades: Battle of Hattin Saladin defeats Guy of Lusignan, King of Jerusalem.
* 1253 Battle of West-Capelle: John I of Avesnes defeats Guy of Dampierre.
* 1359 Francesco II Ordelaffi of Forlμ surrenders to the Papal commander Gil de Albornoz.
* 1456 The Siege of Nαndorfehιrvαr (Belgrade) begins. (Part of the Ottoman wars in Europe)
* 1534 Christian III is elected King of Denmark and Norway in the town of Rye.
* 1569 The King of Poland and the Grand Duke of Lithuania, Sigismund II Augustus finally sign the document of union between Poland and Lithuania, creating new country known as PolishLithuanian Commonwealth.
* 1610 The Battle of Klushino between forces of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth and Russia during the Polish-Muscovite War.
* 1634 The city of Trois-Riviθres is founded in New France (Quebec, Canada)
* 1636 City of Providence, Rhode Island forms.
* 1744 The Treaty of Lancaster, in which the Iriquois ceded lands between the Allegheny Mountains and the Ohio River to the British colonies, is signed in Lancaster, Pennsylvania.
* 1754 French and Indian War: George Washington surrenders Fort Necessity to French Capt. Louis Coulon de Villiers.
* 1774 Orangetown Resolutions adopted in the Province of New York, one of many protests against the British Parliament's Coercive Acts
* 1776 American Revolution: the United States Declaration of Independence is adopted by the Second Continental Congress
* 1778 American Revolutionary War: Forces under George Clark capture Kaskaskia during the Illinois campaign.
* 1802 At West Point, New York the United States Military Academy opens.
* 1803 The Louisiana Purchase is announced to the American people.
* 1810 The French occupy Amsterdam.
* 1817 At Rome, New York, United States, construction on the Erie Canal begins.
* 1827 Slavery is abolished in New York State.
* 1837 Grand Junction Railway, the world's first long-distance railway, opens between Birmingham and Liverpool.
* 1838 The Iowa Territory is organized.
* 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 Near Concord, Massachusetts, Henry David Thoreau embarks on a two-year experiment in simple living at Walden Pond (see Walden).
* 1855 In Brooklyn, New York, the first edition of Walt Whitman's book of poems, titled Leaves of Grass, is published.
* 1862 Lewis Carroll 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. 150 miles up the Mississippi River, a Confederate Army is repulsed at the Battle of Helena, Arkansas.
* 1865 Alice's Adventures in Wonderland is published.
* 1878 Thoroughbred horses Ten Broeck and Mollie McCarty run a match race, immortalized in the song Molly and Tenbrooks.
* 1879 Anglo-Zulu War: the Zululand capital of Ulundi is captured by British troops and burnt to the ground, thus, ending the war and forcing King Cetshwayo to flee.
* 1881 In Alabama, the Tuskegee Institute opens.
* 1886 The people of France offer the Statue of Liberty to the people of the United States.
* 1886 The first scheduled Canadian transcontinental train arrives in Port Moody, British Columbia.
* 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, so that year there were 367 days in this country, with two occurrences of Monday, July 4.
* 1894 The short-lived Republic of Hawaii is proclaimed by Sanford B. Dole.
* 1903 Dorothy Levitt was reported as the first woman in the world to compete in a 'motor race'.
* 1910 African-American boxer Jack Johnson knocks out white boxer Jim Jeffries in a heavyweight boxing match sparking race riots across the United States.
* 1913 President Woodrow Wilson addresses American Civil War veterans at the Great Reunion of 1913.
* 1918 Ottoman sultan Mehmed VI ascends to the throne.
* 1918 Bolsheviks kill Tsar Nicholas II of Russia and his family (Julian calendar date).
* 1927 First flight of the Lockheed Vega.
* 1934 Leo Szilard patents the chain-reaction design for the atomic bomb.
* 1939 Lou Gehrig, recently diagnosed with Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, tells a crowd at Yankee Stadium that he considers himself "The luckiest man on the face of the earth" as he announces his retirement from major league baseball.
* 1941 Nazi Germans massacre Polish scientists and writers in the captured Polish city of Lwσw.
* 1946 After 381 years of near-continuous colonial rule by various powers, the Philippines attains full independence from the United States.
* 1947 The "Indian Independence Bill" is presented before British House of Commons, suggesting bifurcation of British India into two sovereign countries India and Pakistan.
* 1950 The first broadcast by Radio Free Europe.
* 1959 With the admission of Alaska as the 49th U.S. state earlier in the year, the 49-star flag of the United States debuts in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
* 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, Pennsylvania almost ten and a half months later (see Flag Act).
* 1961 Walt Disney is one of the two main speakers on the Independence Day in The Rebuild Hills at Skψrping in Denmark
* 1965 Homophile activists picket at Independence Hall in Philadelphia, the first in a series of Annual Reminders of the second-class status of LGBT people in the United States.
* 1966 President Lyndon B. Johnson signs the Freedom of Information Act into United States law. The act goes into effect the next year.
* 1969 Two teens (one male, one female) are attacked at Blue Rock Springs in California. They are the second (known) victims of the Zodiac Killer. The male survives.
* 1969 The Ohio Fireworks Derecho kills 18 Ohioans and destroys over 100 boats on Lake Erie.
* 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.
* 1982 Iranian diplomats kidnapping (1982): four Iranian diplomats are kidnapped by Lebanese militia in Lebanon.
* 1987 In France, former Gestapo chief Klaus Barbie (aka the "Butcher of Lyon") is convicted of crimes against humanity and is sentenced to life imprisonment.
* 1993 Sumitomo Chemical's resin plant in Nihama explodes killing one worker and injuring three others.
* 1997 NASA's Pathfinder space probe lands on the surface of Mars.
* 2004 The cornerstone of the Freedom Tower is laid on the site of the World Trade Center in New York City.
* 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.
* 2008 Cross-strait charter direct flight between mainland China and Taiwan started.
* 2009 The Statue of Liberty's crown reopens to the public after 8 years, due to security reasons following the World Trade Center attacks.
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- July 4th
4771
INDEPENDENCE DAY
c/p from Wikipedia
* 836 Pactum Sicardi, peace between the Principality of Benevento and the Duchy of Naples
* 993 Saint Ulrich of Augsburg is canonized.
* 1054 A supernova is observed by the Chinese, the Arabs and possibly Amerindians near the star Tauri. For several months it remains bright enough to be seen during the day. Its remnants form the Crab Nebula.
* 1120 Jordan II of Capua is anointed as prince after his infant nephew's death.
* 1187 The Crusades: Battle of Hattin Saladin defeats Guy of Lusignan, King of Jerusalem.
* 1253 Battle of West-Capelle: John I of Avesnes defeats Guy of Dampierre.
* 1359 Francesco II Ordelaffi of Forlμ surrenders to the Papal commander Gil de Albornoz.
* 1456 The Siege of Nαndorfehιrvαr (Belgrade) begins. (Part of the Ottoman wars in Europe)
* 1534 Christian III is elected King of Denmark and Norway in the town of Rye.
* 1569 The King of Poland and the Grand Duke of Lithuania, Sigismund II Augustus finally sign the document of union between Poland and Lithuania, creating new country known as PolishLithuanian Commonwealth.
* 1610 The Battle of Klushino between forces of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth and Russia during the Polish-Muscovite War.
* 1634 The city of Trois-Riviθres is founded in New France (Quebec, Canada)
* 1636 City of Providence, Rhode Island forms.
* 1744 The Treaty of Lancaster, in which the Iriquois ceded lands between the Allegheny Mountains and the Ohio River to the British colonies, is signed in Lancaster, Pennsylvania.
* 1754 French and Indian War: George Washington surrenders Fort Necessity to French Capt. Louis Coulon de Villiers.
* 1774 Orangetown Resolutions adopted in the Province of New York, one of many protests against the British Parliament's Coercive Acts
* 1776 American Revolution: the United States Declaration of Independence is adopted by the Second Continental Congress
* 1778 American Revolutionary War: Forces under George Clark capture Kaskaskia during the Illinois campaign.
* 1802 At West Point, New York the United States Military Academy opens.
* 1803 The Louisiana Purchase is announced to the American people.
* 1810 The French occupy Amsterdam.
* 1817 At Rome, New York, United States, construction on the Erie Canal begins.
* 1827 Slavery is abolished in New York State.
* 1837 Grand Junction Railway, the world's first long-distance railway, opens between Birmingham and Liverpool.
* 1838 The Iowa Territory is organized.
* 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 Near Concord, Massachusetts, Henry David Thoreau embarks on a two-year experiment in simple living at Walden Pond (see Walden).
* 1855 In Brooklyn, New York, the first edition of Walt Whitman's book of poems, titled Leaves of Grass, is published.
* 1862 Lewis Carroll 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. 150 miles up the Mississippi River, a Confederate Army is repulsed at the Battle of Helena, Arkansas.
* 1865 Alice's Adventures in Wonderland is published.
* 1878 Thoroughbred horses Ten Broeck and Mollie McCarty run a match race, immortalized in the song Molly and Tenbrooks.
* 1879 Anglo-Zulu War: the Zululand capital of Ulundi is captured by British troops and burnt to the ground, thus, ending the war and forcing King Cetshwayo to flee.
* 1881 In Alabama, the Tuskegee Institute opens.
* 1886 The people of France offer the Statue of Liberty to the people of the United States.
* 1886 The first scheduled Canadian transcontinental train arrives in Port Moody, British Columbia.
* 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, so that year there were 367 days in this country, with two occurrences of Monday, July 4.
* 1894 The short-lived Republic of Hawaii is proclaimed by Sanford B. Dole.
* 1903 Dorothy Levitt was reported as the first woman in the world to compete in a 'motor race'.
* 1910 African-American boxer Jack Johnson knocks out white boxer Jim Jeffries in a heavyweight boxing match sparking race riots across the United States.
* 1913 President Woodrow Wilson addresses American Civil War veterans at the Great Reunion of 1913.
* 1918 Ottoman sultan Mehmed VI ascends to the throne.
* 1918 Bolsheviks kill Tsar Nicholas II of Russia and his family (Julian calendar date).
* 1927 First flight of the Lockheed Vega.
* 1934 Leo Szilard patents the chain-reaction design for the atomic bomb.
* 1939 Lou Gehrig, recently diagnosed with Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, tells a crowd at Yankee Stadium that he considers himself "The luckiest man on the face of the earth" as he announces his retirement from major league baseball.
* 1941 Nazi Germans massacre Polish scientists and writers in the captured Polish city of Lwσw.
* 1946 After 381 years of near-continuous colonial rule by various powers, the Philippines attains full independence from the United States.
* 1947 The "Indian Independence Bill" is presented before British House of Commons, suggesting bifurcation of British India into two sovereign countries India and Pakistan.
* 1950 The first broadcast by Radio Free Europe.
* 1959 With the admission of Alaska as the 49th U.S. state earlier in the year, the 49-star flag of the United States debuts in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
* 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, Pennsylvania almost ten and a half months later (see Flag Act).
* 1961 Walt Disney is one of the two main speakers on the Independence Day in The Rebuild Hills at Skψrping in Denmark
* 1965 Homophile activists picket at Independence Hall in Philadelphia, the first in a series of Annual Reminders of the second-class status of LGBT people in the United States.
* 1966 President Lyndon B. Johnson signs the Freedom of Information Act into United States law. The act goes into effect the next year.
* 1969 Two teens (one male, one female) are attacked at Blue Rock Springs in California. They are the second (known) victims of the Zodiac Killer. The male survives.
* 1969 The Ohio Fireworks Derecho kills 18 Ohioans and destroys over 100 boats on Lake Erie.
* 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.
* 1982 Iranian diplomats kidnapping (1982): four Iranian diplomats are kidnapped by Lebanese militia in Lebanon.
* 1987 In France, former Gestapo chief Klaus Barbie (aka the "Butcher of Lyon") is convicted of crimes against humanity and is sentenced to life imprisonment.
* 1993 Sumitomo Chemical's resin plant in Nihama explodes killing one worker and injuring three others.
* 1997 NASA's Pathfinder space probe lands on the surface of Mars.
* 2004 The cornerstone of the Freedom Tower is laid on the site of the World Trade Center in New York City.
* 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.
* 2008 Cross-strait charter direct flight between mainland China and Taiwan started.
* 2009 The Statue of Liberty's crown reopens to the public after 8 years, due to security reasons following the World Trade Center attacks.
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