You mustnt forget the following also hapeened on July 4th
Highlights in History Which Occur July 4:
1054 Brightest known super-nova (Crab Nebula) starts shining (23 days)
1187 Battle of Hittin (Tiberias): Saladin defeats Reinoud of Chƒtillon
1301 Battle at Breukelen: Holland vs Lichtenberg
1415 Angelo Correr becomes Pope Gregory XII
1453 41 Jewish martyrs burned at stake at Breslau
1610 Battle at Klushino: King Sigismund II beats Russian & Sweden
1636 City of Providence, Rhode Island form
1652 Prince of Cond‚ starts blood bath in Paris
1653 British Barebones Parliament goes into session
1672 States of Holland declares "Eternal Edict" void
1693 Battle at Boussu-lez-Walcourt: French-English vs Dutch army
1708 Swedish King Karel XII beats Russians
1754 George Washington gives Ft Necessity to France
1776 Declaration of Independence-US gains independence from Britain
1779 French fleet occupies Grenada
1789 1st US tariff act
1802 US Military Academy officially opens (West Point, NY)
1810 French troops occupy Amsterdam
1817 Construction on Erie Canal begins
1819 William Herschel makes last telescopic observation of 1819 comet
1827 Slavery abolished in NY
1828 Construction begins on B & O (Baltimore-Ohio) 1st US passenger RR
1829 Cornerstone laid for 1st US mint (Chestnut & Juniper St, Phila)
1832 "America" 1st sung publicly
1836 Wisconsin Territory formed
1845 Texas Congress votes for annexation to US
and Thoreau moves into his shack on Walden Pond
1861 In a special session of 27th Congress Lincoln requests 400,000 troops
and Skirmish at Harper's Ferry, WV
1862 Battle at Green River Ky (Morgan's Ohio Raid)
and Lewis Carroll creates Alice in Wonderland for Alice P Liddell
Battle of Port Royal, SC (Port Royal Ferry)
and R Morgan's: Tomkinsville, KY to Somerset, KY [->JUL 28]
1863 Boise, Idaho founded (now capital of Idaho)
and Failed Confederate assault on Helena Arkansas (640 casualties)
and General Lee's army withdraws from Gettysburg
and Skirmish at Smithburg, TN
and Vicksburg, Mississippi surrenders to Union forces
1864 -9] Battle at Chattahoochee River, Georgia
1865 1st edition of "Alice in Wonderland" is published
1866 Firecracker thrown in wood starts fire destroying « of Portland, Me
1868 Battle at Ueno: Last Tokugawalegers defeat Wienerwald
1873 Aquarium opens in Woodward Gardens
1874 Social Democratic Workmen's Party of North America formed
1875 White Democrats kill several blacks in terrorist attacks in Vicksburg
1876 1st public exhibition of electric light in SF
and Batholdi visits Bedloe Island, future home of his Statue of Liberty
1879 Africaner Union forms by Rev SJ du Toit at Cape colony
and Battle at Rorkes Drift: Britain ends attack on Zulus
1881 Booker T Washington establishes Tuskegee Institute (Alabama)
1882 Telegraph Hill Observatory opens in SF
1883 Buffalo Bill Cody presents 1st wild west show, North Platte, Nebr
1884 1st US bullfight held (Dodge City Ks)
and Statue of Liberty presented to US in Paris
1886 1st scheduled transcontinental passenger train reaches Pt Moody, BC
1888 1st organized rodeo competition held, Prescott, Ariz
1889 Washington state constitutional convention holds 1st meeting
1892 James Keir Hardie chosen 1st socialist in British Lower house
1893 A Borrelly discovers asteroid #369 Aeria
1894 Elwood Haynes successfully tests one of 1st US autos at 6 MPH
and Republic of Hawaii proclaimed, Sanford B Dole as president
1895 Katherine Lee Bates publishes "America the Beautiful"
1898 French liner "La Bourgogne" collides with bark Cromartyshire, 560 die
and US flag hoisted over Wake Island (Spanish-American War)
1903 Pacific Cable (SF, Hawaii, Guam, Phil) opens, Pres TR sends message
1905 Phila A's beat Boston Red Sox 4-2 in 20 inning game
1906 Gr Brit, France & Italy grant Independence to Ethiopia
1907 Heavyweight Tommy Burns KOs Bill Squires in Calif
1908 NY Giant George "Hooks" Witse no-hits Phila Phillies, 1-0 in 10 inn
1910 Jack Johnson KOs James Jeffries in 15 rounds, ending come-back try
1911 105øF (41øC) at Vernon, Vermont (state record)
and 106øF (41øC) at Nashua, New Hampshire (state record)
and Ty Cobb goes 0 for 4 & ends a 40 game hit streak
1912 Detroit Tiger George Mullen no-hits St Louis Browns, 7-0
and Heavyweight Jack Johnson KOs Jim Flynn in Las Vegas
1914 1st US motorcycle race (300 miles, Dodge City Ks)
1918 Altar dedicated at full-scale replica of Stonehenge at Maryhill, Wa
1919 ADGB (Allgemeine Deutsche Gewerkschaftsbund) party forms
and Cincinnati Reds are 10« games back in NL, & win World Series
and Jack Dempsey KOs Jess Willard in Cuba for heavyweight championship
and M Wolf discovers asteroid #914 Palisana
1923 Heavyweight Jack Dempsey KOs Tom Gibbons in Shelby Mont
1925 44 die when Dreyfus Hotel in Boston collapses
and Yanks Lefty Grove beats A's Herb Pennock 1-0 in 15 innings
1926 Baronie soccer team forms in Breda
and NSDAP-party forms in Weimar
1927 ir Sukarno forms PNI (Perserikatan Nasional Indonesia) in Batavia
1929 AM radio station WOWO, Indiana's transmitter burns down
1931 1st fireworks are held at Cleveland Stadium
and 1st trailside museum opens in Cleveland Metroparks
1933 Work begins on Oakland Bay Bridge
1934 Jordanians revolt in Amsterdam after reduction in employment
1936 Helen Hull Jacobs wins Wimbledon female tennis championship
and League of Nations starts sanctions against Italy
1938 1st game at Shribe Park, Phila; Braves beat Phillies 10-5
and France-Turkish friendship treaty
1939 Red Sox Jim Tabor hits 2 grand slams in 1 game
and Yankees retire 1st uniform (Lou Gehrig #4), 1st Old Timers Day
1940 British destroys French battle fleet at Oran, Algeria, 1267 die
and German occupiers forbids anti-nazis speeches
1941 Latvia partisans shoot 416 Jews dead
and Politburo of Yugoslav communist party reorganizes
Howard Florey & Norman Heatley meet for 1st time, 11 days later
and they successfully recreate penicillin
1942 1st American bombing mission over enemy-occupied Europe (WW II)
and US air offensive against nazi-Germany begins
1944 1,100 US guns fire 4th of July salute at German lines in Normandy
and 1st Japanese kamikaze attack, US fleet near Iwo Jima
and Allied assault on Carpiquet airport at Caen
and Gestapo arrests German Social Democrat Julius Leber
1946 Anti Jewish riots in Kielce Poland (39 die)
and Philippines gains independence from US
1947 Jack Kramer wins Wimbledon
1950 Truman signs public law 600 (Puerto Ricans write own constitution)
1952 Canadain Currency, Mint & Exchange Fund Act allows gold coins of
$5, $10, and $20 to be minted
1953 Imre Nagy succeeds Matyas R kosi as premier of Hungary
and Maureen Connolly wins Wimbledon
1954 WMSL (WYUR, now WAFF) TV channel 48 in Huntsville, AL (ABC) begins
and West Germany beats Hungary 3-2 for soccer's 5th World Cup in Bern
1956 Independence National Historical Park forms in Philadelphia
and US most intense rain fall (1.23" in 1 minute) at Unionville Maryland
1957 Dutch 2nd Chamber accepts temporary tax increase
1959 America's new 49-star flag honoring Alaska statehood unfurled
and Cayman Islands separated from Jamaica, made a crown colony
1960 America's new 50-star flag honoring Hawaiian statehood unfurled
and Mickey Mantle hits career homer # 300
1962 Island Records begins
and KIKU (now KHNL) TV channel 13 in Honolulu, HI (IND) 1st broadcast
1964 Beachboy's "I Get Around" reaches #1
1966 LBJ signs Freedom of Information Act
1967 Freedom of Information Act goes into effect
and Opening ceremony of Tassajara Zen Mountain Center
and Phillies Clay Dairymple ties NL record of 6 walks in doubleheader
1968 Arthur Kopits "Indians," premieres in London
and radio astronomy satellite Explorer 38 launched (í 450 m)
1969 "Give Peace a Chance" by Plastic Ono Band is released in UK
and 140,000 attend Atlanta Pop Festival featuring Led Zep & Janis Joplin
and Ann Jones defeats Billie Jean King for Wimbledon Ladies championship
and Italian Rumor govt resigns
and USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
1970 100 injured in race rioting in Asbury Park NJ
and Casey Kasem's "American Top 40" debuts on LA radio
and Chartered Dan-Air Comet crashes into mountains north of
Barcelona, Spain killing 112 vacationing Britons
1971 France performs nuclear test at Muruora Island
1973 Alan Ayckbourne's "Absurd Person Singular," premieres in London
and CARICOM - Caribbean Community & Common Market, forms
and In audience with Italian cyclists, Pope Paul VI praises athletes who
"offer the magnificent show of a healthy, strong, generous youth"
1975 Bundy victim (?) Nancy Baird disappears from Layton, Utah
and Fictional wedding date of Coneheads
1976 Opening ceremony of the Dai Bosatsu monastery Catskill Mt NY
and Raid on Entebbe-Israel rescues 229 Air France passengers
1977 Cubs use fielder Larry Bittner as a pitcher
and Nigel Harrison replaces Gary Valentine as bassist of Blondie
1978 L Chernykh discovers asteroid #3332
and Memphis fire fighters halt 3-day strike under a court order
1979 Algerian ex-president Ben Bella freed
1982 4th Space Shuttle Mission-Columbia 4 lands at Edwards AFB
and Jimmy Connors beats John McEnroe for his last Wimbledon championship
and Miguel de la Madrid Hurtado elected president of Mexico
and USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
1983 Yankee Dave Righetti no-hits the Red Sox
1984 Funeral for S Nakagawa & burial half his ashes next to N Senzaki
and Yuri Sedykh of USSR throws hammer a record 86.33 m
1985 Tinker Bell's nightly flight begins
1987 Discovery moves to Launch Pad 39B for STS-26 mission
and Martina Navratilova wins 6th straight Wimbledon defeats Steffi Graf
and Nazi Klaus Barbie, "Butcher of Lyon" sentenced to life in France
1988 Steffan Edberg beats Boris Becker for Wimbledon crown
and US navy shoots down Iranian civilian jetliner over Gulf, kills 290
1989 14 year old actress Drew Barrymore, attempts suicide
and Unmanned Russian Mig-23 crashes in Bellegem-Kooigem, Belgium (1 dies)
1990 France performs nuclear test at Muruora Island
and Wrestler Brutus Beefcake injured during para-sailing
2 Live Crew release "Banned in the USA" the lyrics quote Star
and Spangled Banner & Gettysburg Address
1992 John Phillips, rocker (Mamas & Papas), undergoes a liver transplant
and Steffi Graf beats Monica Seles to win Wimbledon
and US actress Bobbie Eakes marries author David Stone
1993 Dave Winfield hits 442nd HR to move into 19th place
and Pete Sampras wins Wimbledon
and Pizza Hut blimp deflates & lands safely on W 56th street in NYC
1994 Russian manned space craft TM-18, lands
and Rwandese Patriot Front occupies Kigali
and US loses to Brazil 1-0 in 1994 World Cup quarter finals
1995 Birmingham Barracudas play 1st CFL game (vs Winnipeg)
1997 US space probe Pathfinder lands on Ares Vallis Mars
1866 Firecracker thrown in wood shavings starts fire that
destroys over half of Portland, Maine.
1898 French liner 'La Bourgogne' collides with bark 'Cromartyshire',
560 drown.
1925 44 die when the Dreyfus Hotel in Boston collapses.
1970 Chartered Dan-Air Comet crashes into mountains north of
Barcelona, Spain killing 112 vacationing Britons.
1942 1st American bombing mission over enemy-occupied Europe (WW II)
and US air offensive against nazi-Germany begins</PRE>
Thought I would highlight this as most people assume the US was there from the start.
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