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What are the important events that happened on July 4? Here are historical events, facts, and some myths about this day.
July 4: Facts & Myths About This Day
July 4 is the 185th day of the year 2025 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 180 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Friday.
Under the Julian calendar, this day is June 21, 2025 – a Friday. Both day of the week are the same but did you notice the difference with the Gregorian calendar?
When this day started, 486,552 hours has elapsed since midnight of January 1, 1970 – the Unix epoch.
Strange as it may, if we name this day after a polygon then it will be called ‘hectaoctacontapentagon’ day.
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Cancer is the zodiac sign of a person born on this day. Ruby is the modern birthstone for this month. Ruby is the mystical birthstone from Tibetan origin that dates back over a thousand years.
According to the lunisolar Chinese calendar, there are 228 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.
The ancient Maya civilization believes that the end of the world will happen on December 21, 2012. There are now 4,578 days since this fabled cataclysmic event.
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July 4: This Day In History
The Aphelion, the point in the year when the Earth is farthest from the Sun, occurs around this date.
July 4 Historical Events
- 1253 –Battle of West-Capelle: John I of Avesnes defeats Guy of Dampierre.
- 1774 –Orangetown Resolutions adopted in the Province of New York, one of many protests against the British Parliament’s Coercive Acts
- 1810 –The French occupy Amsterdam.
- 1939 –Lou Gehrig, recently diagnosed with Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, tells a crowd at Yankee Stadium that he considers himself “The luckiest man on the face of the earth” as he announces his retirement from major league baseball.
- 2004 –The cornerstone of the Freedom Tower is laid on the site of the World Trade Center in New York City.
Who were born on July 4?
- 1923 –Rudolf Friedrich, Swiss Federal Councilor
- 1930 –Yuri Tyukalov, Soviet Olympic rower
- 1973 –Jan Magnussen, Danish racing driver
- 1980 –Kwame Steede, Bermudan footballer
- 1985 –Kane Tenace, Australian rules footballer
Who died on July 4?
- 1918 –Tsar Nicholas II, last Emperor of Russia before the 1917 Russian Revolution (b. 1868)
- 1934 –Maria Sklodowska-Curie, Nobel Prize in Chemistry and Physics (b. 1867)
- 1970 –Harold Stirling Vanderbilt, American industrialist (b. 1884)
- 2009 –Allen Klein, American music executive (b. 1931)
- 2009 –Jean-Baptiste Tati Loutard, Congolese politician (b. 1938)
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