About July 4
July 4, 2021 is the 185th day of the year 2021 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 180 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Sunday.
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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 212 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
- 1253 –Battle of West-Capelle: John I of Avesnes defeats Guy of Dampierre.
- 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.
- 1610 –The Battle of Klushino between forces of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth and Russia during the Polish-Muscovite War.
- 1778 –American Revolutionary War: American forces under George Clark capture Kaskaskia during the Illinois campaign.
- 1817 –At Rome, New York, United States, construction on the Erie Canal begins.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 1886 –The people of France offer the Statue of Liberty to the people of the United States.
- 1894 –The short-lived Republic of Hawaii is proclaimed by Sanford B. Dole.
- 1910 –African-American boxer Jack Johnson knocks out white boxer Jim Jeffries in a heavyweight boxing match sparking race riots across the United States.
- 1941 –Nazi Germans massacre Polish scientists and writers in the captured Ukrainian city of Lviv.
- 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.
- 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.
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