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.
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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
- 414 –Emperor Theodosius II, age 13, yields power to his older sister Aelia Pulcheria who reigns as regent and proclaimed herself empress (Augusta) of the Eastern Roman Empire.
- 993 –Saint Ulrich of Augsburg is canonized.
- 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.
- 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.
- 1634 –The city of Trois-Rivières is founded in New France (Quebec, Canada)
- 1774 –Orangetown Resolutions adopted in the Province of New York, one of many protests against the British Parliament’s Coercive Acts
- 1778 –American Revolutionary War: American forces under George Clark capture Kaskaskia during the Illinois campaign.
- 1810 –The French occupy Amsterdam.
- 1817 –At Rome, New York, United States, construction on the Erie Canal begins.
- 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.
- 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.
- 1913 –President Woodrow Wilson addresses American Civil War veterans at the Great Reunion of 1913.
- 1927 –First flight of the Lockheed Vega.
- 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.
- 1977 –The George Jackson Brigade plants a bomb at the main power substation for the Washington state capitol in Olympia in solidarity with a prison strike at the Walla Walla State Penitentiary Intensive Security Unit
- 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.
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