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Today is Saturday, July 4, 2009.
» 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
- » 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
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