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.
- 1187 –The Crusades: Battle of Hattin – Saladin defeats Guy of Lusignan, King of Jerusalem.
- 1359 –Francesco II Ordelaffi of Forlì surrenders to the Papal commander Gil de Albornoz.
- 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 Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth.
- 1636 –City of Providence, Rhode Island forms.
- 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.
- 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.
- 1855 –In Brooklyn, New York, the first edition of Walt Whitman’s book of poems, titled Leaves of Grass, is published.
- 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.
- 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.
- 1918 –Bolsheviks kill Tsar Nicholas II of Russia and his family (Julian calendar date).
- 1950 –The first broadcast by Radio Free Europe.
- 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.
- 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.
- 1997 –NASA’s Pathfinder space probe lands on the surface of Mars.
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