SomeFacts | July 4

On this day - July 4

Battle of Mantinea: The Thebans, led by Epaminondas, defeated the ...

414 — Emperor Theodosius II, age 13, yields power to his older sister ...

836 — Pactum Sicardi, a peace treaty between the Principality of ...

993 — Ulrich of Augsburg is canonized as a saint.

1054 — A supernova, called SN 1054, is seen by Chinese Song dynasty, ...

1120 — Jordan II of Capua is anointed as prince after his infant ...

1187 — The Crusades: Battle of Hattin: Saladin defeats Guy of ...

1253 — Battle of West-Capelle: John I of Avesnes defeats Guy of ...

1333 — Genkō War: Forces loyal to Emperor Go-Daigo seize Tōshō-ji ...

1359 — Francesco II Ordelaffi of Forlì surrenders to the Papal ...

1456 — Ottoman–Hungarian wars: The Siege of Nándorfehérvár (Belgrade) ...

1534 — Christian III is elected King of Denmark and Norway in the ...

1584 — Philip Amadas and Arthur Barlowe arrive at Roanoke Island.

1610 — The Battle of Klushino is fought between forces of the ...

1634 — The city of Trois-Rivières is founded in New France (now ...

1744 — The Treaty of Lancaster, in which the Iroquois cede lands ...

1774 — Orangetown Resolutions are adopted in the Province of New ...

1776 — American Revolution: The United States Declaration of ...

1778 — American Revolutionary War: US forces under George Clark ...

1802 — The United States Military Academy opens at West Point, New ...

1803 — The Louisiana Purchase is announced to the US people.

1817 — In Rome, New York, construction on the Erie Canal begins.

1818 — US Flag Act of 1818 goes into effect creating a 13 stripe flag ...

1827 — Slavery is abolished in the State of New York.

1831 — Samuel Francis Smith writes "My Country, 'Tis of ...

1832 — Durham University established by Act of Parliament; the first ...

1832 — John Neal delivers the first public lecture in the US to ...

1837 — Grand Junction Railway, the world's first long-distance ...

1838 — The Iowa Territory is organized.

1845 — Henry David Thoreau moves into a small cabin on Walden Pond in ...

1855 — The first edition of Walt Whitman's book of poems, Leaves ...

1862 — Lewis Carroll tells Alice Liddell a story that would grow into ...

1863 — American Civil War: Retreat from Gettysburg: The Confederate ...

1863 — American Civil War: Union forces repulse a Confederate army at ...

1863 — American Civil War: Siege of Vicksburg: The Confederate army ...

1879 — Anglo-Zulu War: The Zululand capital of Ulundi is captured by ...

1881 — In Alabama, the Tuskegee Institute opens.

1886 — The Canadian Pacific Railway's first scheduled train from ...

1887 — The founder of Pakistan, Quaid-i-Azam Muhammad Ali Jinnah, ...

1892 — Western Samoa changes the International Date Line, causing ...

1894 — The short-lived Republic of Hawaii is proclaimed by Sanford B. ...

1898 — En route from New York to Le Havre, the SS La Bourgogne ...

1901 — William Howard Taft becomes American governor of the ...

1903 — The Philippine–American War is officially concluded.

1910 — The Johnson–Jeffries riots occur after African-American boxer ...

1911 — A massive heat wave strikes the northeastern United States, ...

1913 — President Woodrow Wilson addresses American Civil War veterans ...

1914 — The funeral of Archduke Franz Ferdinand and his wife Sophie ...

1918 — World War I: The Battle of Hamel, a successful attack by the ...

1918 — Mehmed V died at the age of 73 and Ottoman sultan Mehmed VI ...

1927 — First flight of the Lockheed Vega.

1939 — Lou Gehrig, recently diagnosed with Amyotrophic lateral ...

1941 — World War II: The Burning of the Riga synagogues: The Great ...

1941 — Nazi crimes against the Polish nation: Nazi troops massacre ...

1942 — World War II: The 250-day Siege of Sevastopol in the Crimea ...

1943 — World War II: In Gibraltar, a Royal Air Force B-24 Liberator ...

1943 — World War II: The Battle of Kursk, the largest full-scale ...

1946 — After 381 years of near-continuous colonial rule by various ...

1946 — The Kielce pogrom against Jewish Holocaust survivors in Poland.

1947 — The "Indian Independence Bill" is presented before ...

1950 — Cold War: Radio Free Europe first broadcasts.

1951 — William Shockley announces the invention of the junction ...

1951 — Cold War: A court in Czechoslovakia sentences American ...

1954 — Food rationing in Great Britain ends, with the lifting of ...

1960 — Due to the post-Independence Day admission of Hawaii as the ...

1961 — On its maiden voyage, the Soviet nuclear-powered submarine ...

1966 — U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson signs the Freedom of ...

1973 — Barbados, Guyana, Jamaica, and Trinidad and Tobago sign the ...

1976 — Israeli commandos raid Entebbe airport in Uganda, rescuing all ...

1977 — The George Jackson Brigade plants a bomb at the main power ...

1982 — Space Shuttle program: Columbia lands at Edwards Air Force ...

1982 — Three Iranian diplomats and a journalist are kidnapped in ...

1994 — Rwandan genocide: Kigali, the Rwandan capital, is captured by ...

1997 — NASA's Pathfinder space probe lands on the surface of ...

1998 — Japan launches the Nozomi probe to Mars, joining the United ...

2001 — Vladivostok Air Flight 352 crashes on approach to Irkutsk ...

2002 — A Boeing 707 crashes near Bangui M'Poko International ...

2004 — Greece beats Portugal in the UEFA Euro 2004 Final and becomes ...

2004 — The cornerstone of the Freedom Tower is laid on the World ...

2005 — The Deep Impact collider hits the comet Tempel 1.

2006 — Space Shuttle program: Discovery launches STS-121 to the ...

2008 — A bomb explodes at a concert in Minsk's Independence ...

2009 — The first of four days of bombings begins on the southern ...

2009 — The Statue of Liberty's crown reopens to the public after ...

2012 — The discovery of particles consistent with the Higgs boson at ...

2015 — Chile claims its first title in international football by ...

2024 — The Labour Party, led by Keir Starmer, wins a landslide ...

2025 — The Oasis Live '25 tour began in Principality Stadium, ...

2025 — A devastating flood strikes the Texas Hill Country, killing at ...