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Here are some interesting facts ih history happened on 4 July.

1. Brightest known super-nova starts shining for 23 days
2. Crab Nebula supernova recorded by Chinese & Japanese astronomers.
3. Declaration of Independence -- US gains independence from Britain.
4. US Milt Academy officially opened at West Point NY
5. William Herschel makes last telescopic observation comet of 1819.
6. 2nd & 3rd presidents-John Adams & Thomas Jefferson die
7. 1st US passenger railroad was begun Baltimore & Ohio
8. James Monroe the fifth president died
9. Thoreau moves into his shack on Walden Pond
10. Lewis Carroll began inventing the story of Alice in Wonderland for his friend Alice Pleasance Liddell during a boating trip
11. Boise Idaho founded (now capital of Idaho)
12. Aquarium opens in Woodward Gardens
13. 1st public exhibition of electric light in SF
14. Telegraph Hill Observatory opens in SF.
15. Statue of Liberty was presented to US in Paris
16. Washington state constitutional convention holds 1st meeting.
17. Elwood Haynes successfully tests one of the 1st US autos
18. Republic of Hawaii established.
19. Aphelion Passage
20. Pacific Cable (SF Hawaii Guam Phil) opens FDR sends message
21. Work begins on the Oakland Bay Bridge
22. Yankees retire 1st uniform #4 Lou Gehrig 1st Old Timers Day
23. 1st American bombing mission over enemy-occupied Europe (WW2)
24. Philippines gains independence from US
25. America's new 49-star flag honoring Alaska statehood unfurled
26. Mickey Mantle hits career homer # 300
27. America's new 50-star flag honoring Hawaiian statehood unfurled
28. Mariner 4 flies past Mars sends 1st close-up photos.
29. LBJ signs Freedom of Information Act
30. Freedom of Information Act goes into effect
31. Raid on Entebbe - Israel rescues 229 Air France passengers
32. Fourth Space Shuttle Mission - Columbia 4 returns to Earth
33. Jimmy Connors beats John McEnroe for championship at Wimbeldon
34. Yankee Dave Righetti no hits the Red Sox
35. Yuri Sedykh of USSR throws hammer a record 86.33 m.
36. Tinker Bell's nightly flight begins
37. Martina Navaratalova wins her 6th straight Wimbeldon

These famous people were born on 4 July.

1. 1753 - Jean-Pierre-Francois Blanchard, 1st balloon flights in England, US
2. 1804 - Nathaniel Hawthorne, American author (The Scarlet Letter).
3. 1807 - Giuseppe Garibaldi, unifier of Italy.
4. 1826 - Stephen Foster, American composer (Oh, Susanna, Swanee River).
5. 1867 - Stephen Mather, organizer of the US National Park Service.
6. 1872 - Calvin Coolidge, (R), 30th pres (1923-29)
7. 1878 - George M Cohan, entertainer
8. 1883 - Rube Goldberg, made the easy outrageously difficult.
9. 1900 - Louis Armstrong, 'Satchmo'
10. 1902 - Meyer Lansky, mobster
11. 1902 - George Murphy, Actor, dancer, Calif Sen
12. 1911 - Mitch Miller
13. 1912 - Virginia Graham, TV personality
14. 1916 - Tokyo Rose
15. 1918 - Abigail Van Buren & Ann Landers, twin sisters, advice columnists
16. 1921 - Gerard Debreu, French economist (Nobel 1983).
17. 1924 - Eva Marie Saint, Actress Newark
18. 1927 - Neil Simon, playwright
19. 1928 - Steven Boyd, Actor
20. 1928 - Gina Lollobrigida, Actress/photographer, Italy
21. 1930 - George Steinbrenner, NY Yankees owner.
22. 1962 - Pam Shriver, Tennis player