About July 4
July 4, 2024 is the 186th day of the year 2024 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 180 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Thursday.
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Cancer is the sun sign of a person born on this day. Ruby is the modern birthstone for this month. Ruby is the mystical birthstone from Tibetan origin that dates back over a thousand years.
According to the lunisolar Chinese calendar, there are 209 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.
July 4: More About This Day
The Aphelion, the point in the year when the Earth is farthest from the Sun, occurs around this date.
What Happened On July 4
- 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.
- 1120 –Jordan II of Capua is anointed as prince after his infant nephew’s death.
- 1534 –Christian III is elected King of Denmark and Norway in the town of Rye.
- 1610 –The Battle of Klushino between forces of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth and Russia during the Polish-Muscovite War.
- 1754 –French and Indian War: George Washington surrenders Fort Necessity to French Capt. Louis Coulon de Villiers.
- 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.
- 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.
- 1855 –In Brooklyn, New York, the first edition of Walt Whitman’s book of poems, titled Leaves of Grass, is published.
- 1886 –The people of France offer the Statue of Liberty to the people of the United States.
- 1903 –Dorothy Levitt is reported as the first woman in the world to compete in a 'motor race'.
- 1918 –Ottoman sultan Mehmed VI ascends to the throne.
- 1934 –Leo Szilard patents the chain-reaction design for the atomic bomb.
- 1951 –A court in Czechoslovakia sentences American journalist William N. Oatis to ten years in prison on a charge of espionage.
- 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).
- 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.
- 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.
- 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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