About July 4
July 4, 2025 is the 185th day of the year 2025 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 180 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Friday.
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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 228 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.
- 1610 –The Battle of Klushino between forces of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth and Russia during the Polish-Muscovite War.
- 1634 –The city of Trois-Rivières is founded in New France (Quebec, Canada)
- 1744 –The Treaty of Lancaster, in which the Iroquois ceded lands between the Allegheny Mountains and the Ohio River to the British colonies, is signed in Lancaster, Pennsylvania.
- 1776 –American Revolution: The United States Declaration of Independence is adopted by the Second Continental Congress.
- 1803 –The Louisiana Purchase is announced to the American people.
- 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.
- 1863 –The Army of Northern Virginia withdraws from the battlefield after its loss at the Battle of Gettysburg, signalling an end to the Southern invasion of the North.
- 1886 –The people of France offer the Statue of Liberty to the people of the United States.
- 1887 –The founder of Pakistan, Quaid-i-Azam Muhammad Ali Jinnah, joins Sindh-Madrasa-tul-Islam, Karachi.
- 1903 –Dorothy Levitt is reported as the first woman in the world to compete in a 'motor race'.
- 1941 –Nazi Germans massacre Polish scientists and writers in the captured Ukrainian city of Lviv.
- 1943 –World War II: Beginning of the Battle of Kursk, the largest full-scale battle in history and the world’s largest tank battle at Prokhorovka village.
- 1950 –The first broadcast by Radio Free Europe.
- 1966 –President Lyndon B. Johnson signs the Freedom of Information Act into United States law. The act goes into effect the next year.
- 1993 –Sumitomo Chemical’s resin plant in Nihama explodes killing one worker and injuring three others.
- 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 –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.
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