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

  • 836 –
    Pactum Sicardi, peace between the Principality of Benevento and the Duchy of Naples.
  • 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.
  • 1456 –
    The Siege of Nándorfehérvár (Belgrade) begins. (Part of the Ottoman wars in Europe)
  • 1776 –
    American Revolution: The United States Declaration of Independence is adopted by the Second Continental Congress.
  • 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.
  • 1831 –
    Samuel Francis Smith wrote My Country, 'Tis of Thee for the Boston, MA July 4th festivities.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 1903 –
    Dorothy Levitt is reported as the first woman in the world to compete in a 'motor race'.
  • 1913 –
    President Woodrow Wilson addresses American Civil War veterans at the Great Reunion of 1913.
  • 1918 –
    Bolsheviks kill Tsar Nicholas II of Russia and his family (Julian calendar date).
  • 1927 –
    First flight of the Lockheed Vega.
  • 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 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.
  • 1947 –
    The “Indian Independence Bill” is presented before British House of Commons, suggesting bifurcation of British India into two sovereign countries – India and Pakistan.
  • 1951 –
    A court in Czechoslovakia sentences American journalist William N. Oatis to ten years in prison on a charge of espionage.
  • 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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