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July 4th, 2006 (July 04 2006) | Event | Space Shuttle program: STS-121 MissionSpace Shuttle Discovery launches at 18:37:55 UTC. | |
July 4th, 2006 (July 04 2006) | Event | North Korea tests four short-range missiles, one medium-range missile, and a long-range Taepodong-2. The long-range Taepodong-2 reportedly fails in mid-air over the Sea of Japan/East Sea. | |
July 4th, 1986 (July 04 1986) | Birth | Takahisa Masuda, Japanese singer | |
July 4th, 1986 (July 04 1986) | Death | Oscar Zariski, Russian mathematician (born in 1899) | |
July 4th, 1986 (July 04 1986) | Death | Flor Peeters, Belgian composer, organist, and teacher (born in 1903) | |
July 4th, 1976 (July 04 1976) | Event | 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. | |
July 4th, 1976 (July 04 1976) | Birth | Daijiro Kato, Japanese motorcycle racer (died in 2003) | |
July 4th, 1976 (July 04 1976) | Death | Antoni Slonimski, Polish poet (born in 1895) | |
July 4th, 1966 (July 04 1966) | Event | President Lyndon B. Johnson signs the Freedom of Information Act into United States law. The act goes into effect the next year. | Lyndon Johnson Quotes |
July 4th, 1966 (July 04 1966) | Event | The Beatles, in the Phillipines to give two concerts, are accused of standing up Imelda Marcos. Their entourage is beaten up at the airport. | |
July 4th, 1966 (July 04 1966) | Birth | Lee Reherman, American actor | |
July 4th, 1946 (July 04 1946) | Event | After 381 years of near-continuous colonial rule, the Philippines is granted full independence by the United States. | |
July 4th, 1946 (July 04 1946) | Birth | Tish Howard, American model | |
July 4th, 1946 (July 04 1946) | Birth | Ron Kovic, American peace activist | |
July 4th, 1946 (July 04 1946) | Birth | Michael Milken, American financier | |
July 4th, 1946 (July 04 1946) | Birth | Ed O Ross, American actor | |
July 4th, 1946 (July 04 1946) | Death | Gerda Steinhoff, Nazi concentration camp overseer (born in 1922) | |
July 4th, 1926 (July 04 1926) | Birth | Alfredo Di Stefano, Argentine-Spanish footballer | |
July 4th, 1926 (July 04 1926) | Death | Pier Giorgio Frassati, Italian Saint (born in 1901) | |
July 4th, 1916 (July 04 1916) | Birth | Iva Toguri D Aquino, American World War II figure (died in 2006) | |
July 4th, 1916 (July 04 1916) | Death | Alan Seeger, American war poet (born in 1888) | |
July 4th, 1896 (July 04 1896) | Birth | Mao Dun, Chinese writer (died in 1981) | |
July 4th, 1886 (July 04 1886) | Event | The people of France offer the Statue of Liberty to the people of the United States. | |
July 4th, 1886 (July 04 1886) | Event | The first scheduled Canadian transcontinental train arrives in Port Moody, British Columbia. | |
July 4th, 1826 (July 04 1826) | Birth | Stephen Foster, American songwriter (died in 1864) | Stephen Foster Quotes |
July 4th, 1826 (July 04 1826) | Death | John Adams, 2nd President of the United States (born in 1735) | John Adams Quotes |
July 4th, 1826 (July 04 1826) | Death | Thomas Jefferson 3rd President of the United States (born in 1743) | Thomas Jefferson Quotes |
July 4th, 1816 (July 04 1816) | Birth | Hiram Walker, American grocer and distiller (died in 1899) | |
July 4th, 1776 (July 04 1776) | Event | American Revolution: the United States Declaration of Independence is adopted by the Second Continental Congress | |
July 4th, 1636 (July 04 1636) | Event | City of Providence, Rhode Island forms. | Ovid Quotes |
July 4th, 1546 (July 04 1546) | Birth | Murat III, Ottoman Sultan (died in 1595) | |
July 4th, 1546 (July 04 1546) | Death | Hayreddin Barbarossa, Admiral of the Ottoman Navy (born in 1478) | |
July 4th, 0836 (July 04 0836) | Event | Pactum Sicardi, peace between the Principality of Benevento and the Duchy of Naples | |