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Today is Saturday, July 4, 2009.

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
» 1918 Abigail Van Buren
» 1918 Ann Landers
» 1924 Eva Marie Saint
» 1927 Gina Lollobrigida
» 1927 Neil Simon
» 1930 George Steinbrenner
» 1943 Geraldo Rivera

Events

» United States Independence Day
» 1054 Brightest known supernova starts shining, for 23 days.
» 1057 Crab Nebula supernova recorded by Chinese & Japanese astronomers.
» 1776 Future U.S. 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 & 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.
» 1876 1st 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 Republic of Hawaii established.
» 1894 Elwood Haynes successfully tests one of the first US autos
» 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
» 1976 Raid on Entebbe - Israel rescues 229 Air France passengers