July 4<\/p>\n
1054 \u2013 A supernova, SN 1054, is seen by Chinese Song dynasty, Arab, and possibly Amerindian observers near the star Zeta Tauri<\/em>. For several months it remains bright enough to be seen during the day. Its remnants form the Crab Nebula.<\/p>\n 1187 \u2013 At the Battle of Hattin, the Saracen army of Saladin defeats the Crusader army of Guy of Lusignan, King of Jerusalem.<\/p>\n 1584 \u2013 Under direction of Sir Walter Raleigh to find land in North America to colonize, 2 ships commanded by Captains Philip Amadas and Arthur Barlowe arrive at Roanoke Island<\/p>\n 1744 \u2013 Under terms of The Treaty of Lancaster<\/em>, the Iroquois cede lands between the Allegheny Mountains and the Ohio River to the British.<\/p>\n 1774 \u2013 The Orangetown Resolutions are adopted in New York, protesting against the British Parliament’s Coercive Acts.<\/p>\n 1776 \u2013 The United States Declaration of Independence is published by the Second Continental Congress.<\/p>\n 1778 \u2013 U.S. forces under George Clark capture Kaskaskia during the Illinois campaign of the Revolution.<\/p>\n 1802 \u2013 The United States Military Academy opens at West Point, New York<\/p>\n 1803 \u2013 The Louisiana Purchase is announced<\/p>\n 1817 \u2013 Construction on the Erie Canal begins in Rome, New York<\/p>\n 1826 \u2013 Revolutionaries, Founders and Presidents, John Adams and Thomas Jefferson die within hours of each other at their respective homes.<\/p>\n 1827 \u2013 Slavery is abolished in the State of New York.<\/p>\n 1831 \u2013 Samuel Smith writes the lyrics to the song “My Country, ‘Tis of Thee<\/em>”<\/p>\n 1838 \u2013 The Iowa Territory is organized.<\/p>\n 1862 \u2013 Lewis Carroll tells Alice Liddell a story that would grow into Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland and its sequels.<\/p>\n 1863 \u2013 Vicksburg, Mississippi surrenders to U.S. forces under Ulysses S. Grant after 47 days of siege. 1898 \u2013 The Newlands Act to annex Hawaii and organize it as a territory is passed by the Senate and sent to President McKinley to be signed into law.<\/p>\n 1903 \u2013 The Philippine\u2013American War is officially concluded.<\/p>\n 1911 \u2013 A massive heat wave strikes the northeastern states, killing 380 people in 11 days and breaking temperature records in several cities.<\/p>\n 1934 \u2013 Leo Szilard patents the chain reaction reactor design that would later be used in the design of the atomic bomb.<\/p>\n 1939 \u2013 Lou Gehrig announces his retirement from major league baseball at Yankee Stadium due to the effects of the illness, Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis.<\/p>\n 1950 \u2013 Radio Free Europe begins broadcasting<\/p>\n 1951 \u2013 At Bell Labs, William Shockley announces the invention of the junction transistor.<\/p>\n 1960 \u2013 The 50 star Flag of the United States debuts in Philadelphia, due to the post Independence Day admission of Hawaii as the 50th state on August 21 of the previous year.<\/p>\n 1966 \u2013 President Johnson signs the Freedom of Information Act<\/em><\/p>\n 1976 \u2013 The U.S. celebrates its Bicentennial. 1997 \u2013 NASA’s Pathfinder<\/em> space probe lands on the surface of Mars.<\/p>\n 2004 \u2013 The cornerstone of the Freedom Tower is laid on the World Trade Center site in New York City.<\/p>\n 2005 \u2013 NASA’s Deep Impact<\/em> collider hits comet Tempel 1 as planned.<\/p>\n 2009 \u2013 The Statue of Liberty’s crown reopens to the public after eight years of closure for repairs.<\/p>\n 2012 \u2013 The discovery of the Higgs boson, which is fundamentally how things have ‘mass’, by experiments performed at the Large Hadron Collider near Geneva Switzerland, is announced at CERN.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" July 4 1054 \u2013 A supernova, SN 1054, is seen by Chinese Song dynasty, Arab, and possibly Amerindian observers near the star Zeta Tauri. 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\nConfederate forces are repulsed at the Battle of Helena, Arkansas.
\nThe Army of Northern Virginia withdraws from the battlefield after losing the Battle of Gettysburg<\/p>\n
\nIsraeli commandos execute Operation Thunderbolt<\/em>, raiding Entebbe airport in Uganda, rescuing all but 4 of the passengers and crew of an Air France jetliner seized by Palestinian terrorists, suffering only 1 casualty, the commander of the force, Yonatan Netanyahu.<\/p>\n