July 4 in History

Historical Events on July 4

1778 American Revolutionary War: American forces under George Clark capture Kaskaskia during the Illinois campaign.

1827 Slavery is abolished in New York State.

1863 American Civil War: Siege of Vicksburg: Vicksburg, Mississippi surrenders to Ulysses S. Grant after 47 days of siege. One hundred fifty miles up the Mississippi River, a Confederate Army is repulsed at the Battle of Helena, Arkansas.

1887 The founder of Pakistan, Quaid-i-Azam Muhammad Ali Jinnah, joins Sindh-Madrasa-tul-Islam, Karachi.

1918 World War I: The Battle of Hamel, a successful attack by the Australian Corps against German positions near the town of Le Hamel on the Western Front.

1941 World War II: The Burning of the Riga synagogues: The Great Choral Synagogue in German occupied Riga is burnt with 300 Jews locked in the basement.

1946 After 381 years of near-continuous colonial rule by various powers, the Philippines attains full independence from the United States.

1958 President Dwight D. Eisenhower signed the Rivers and Harbors Flood Control Bill.

2012 The discovery of particles consistent with the Higgs boson at the Large Hadron Collider is announced at CERN.

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Famous Birthdays on July 4

1807 Giuseppe Garibaldi

1872 Calvin Coolidge

1952 Álvaro Uribe

1979 Josh McCown

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Famous Deaths on July 4

1551 Gregory Cromwell, 1st Baron Cromwell

1826 John Adams

1826 Thomas Jefferson

2008 Jesse Helms

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