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
- 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.
- 1253 –Battle of West-Capelle: John I of Avesnes defeats Guy of Dampierre.
- 1636 –City of Providence, Rhode Island forms.
- 1754 –French and Indian War: George Washington surrenders Fort Necessity to French Capt. Louis Coulon de Villiers.
- 1774 –Orangetown Resolutions adopted in the Province of New York, one of many protests against the British Parliament’s Coercive Acts
- 1776 –American Revolution: The United States Declaration of Independence is adopted by the Second Continental Congress.
- 1802 –At West Point, New York the United States Military Academy opens.
- 1810 –The French occupy Amsterdam.
- 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.
- 1837 –Grand Junction Railway, the world’s first long-distance railway, opens between Birmingham and Liverpool.
- 1892 –Western Samoa changes the International Date Line, so that year there were 367 days in this country, with two occurrences of Monday, July 4.
- 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).
- 1918 –Ottoman sultan Mehmed VI ascends to the throne.
- 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.
- 1966 –President Lyndon B. Johnson signs the Freedom of Information Act into United States law. The act goes into effect the next year.
- 1976 –Israeli commandos raid Entebbe airport in Uganda, rescuing all but four of the passengers and crew of an Air France jetliner seized by Palestinian terrorists.
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