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On This Day

• Friday, July 4, 2008
• Holidays
  • ♦ Independence Day
• Birthdays
  • ♦ 1753  Jean-Pierre-Francois Blanchard
  • ♦ 1804  Nathaniel Hawthorne
  • ♦ 1807  Giuseppe Garibaldi
  • ♦ 1826  Stephen Foster
  • ♦ 1867  Stephen Mather
  • ♦ 1872  Calvin Coolidge
  • ♦ 1878  George M. Cohan
  • ♦ 1883  Rube Goldberg
  • ♦ 1900  Louis Armstrong
  • ♦ 1902  George Murphy
  • ♦ 1910  Gloria Stuart
  • ♦ 1911  Mitch Miller
  • ♦ 1916  Tokyo Rose
  • ♦ 1918  Abigail Van Buren
  • ♦ 1918  Ann Landers
  • ♦ 1924  Eva Marie Saint
  • ♦ 1927  Gina Lollobrigida
  • ♦ 1927  Neil Simon
  • ♦ 1930  George Steinbrenner
  • ♦ 1943  Geraldo Rivera
• Events
  • ♦ 1054 Brightest known supernova starts shining, for 23 days.
  • ♦ 1057 Crab Nebula supernova recorded by Chinese and Japanese astronomers.
  • ♦ 1776 Future US issues the Declaration of Independence from Britain
  • ♦ 1802 US Military Academy officially opens at West Point, NY
  • ♦ 1828 First US passenger railroad started, The Baltimore and Ohio
  • ♦ 1845 Thoreau moves into his shack on Walden Pond.
  • ♦ 1862 Lewis Carroll begins inventing "Alice in Wonderland" for his friend Alice Pleasance Liddell during a boating trip.
  • ♦ 1863 Boise, Idaho founded (now capital of Idaho).
  • ♦ 1876 First public exhibition of electric light in San Francisco.
  • ♦ 1882 Telegraph Hill Observatory opens.
  • ♦ 1884 Statue of Liberty is presented to the United States, in Paris.
  • ♦ 1894 Elwood Haynes successfully tests one of the first US autos
  • ♦ 1894 Republic of Hawaii established.
  • ♦ 1903 Pacific Cable (San Francisco, Hawaii, Guam, Phillipines) opens. President Roosevelt sends a message to the Phillipines, then a message around the world in 12 minutes.
  • ♦ 1933 Work begins on the Oakland Bay Bridge.
  • ♦ 1946 Philippines gains independence from US
  • ♦ 1965 Mariner 4 flies past Mars, sends first close-up photos.
  • ♦ 1967 Freedom of Information Act goes into effect
  • ♦ 1971 Michael Hart begins Project Gutenberg by typing and distributin the Declaration of Independence.
  • ♦ 1976 Raid on Entebbe - Israel rescues 229 Air France passengers
• Reminders
  • No Reminders today