The 185th day of 2024 is today, Friday, July 4. The year has 180 days remaining. It’s Independence Day today.
Delegates to the Second Continental Congress in Philadelphia adopted the Declaration of Independence on July 4, 1776.
The United States Military Academy at West Point, New York, formally opened its doors in 1802.
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The Erie Canal’s construction got underway in Rome, New York, in 1817.
Both previous presidents John Adams and Thomas Jefferson passed away in 1826, fifty years to the day after the Declaration of Independence was ratified.
James Monroe, the fifth president of the United States, passed away in New York City in 1831 at the age of 73.
The first printing of Walt Whitman’s Leaves of Grass was released in 1855.
The Civil War Siege of Vicksburg, Mississippi, came to an end in 1863 when a Confederate garrison turned itself in to Union troops.
Black world heavyweight boxing champion Jack Johnson upset white former champion Gentleman Jim Jeffries in 1910 in Reno, Nevada, in what was dubbed “The Fight of the Century.” More than 20 people were killed in race riots across the nation after the bout.
The 48-star American flag, which acknowledged the statehood of Arizona and New Mexico, was adopted in 1912.
When Lou Gehrig of the New York Yankees gave his well-known farewell address in 1939, he referred to himself as the luckiest man alive.
The Treaty of Manila, which acknowledged the Philippines’ independence from the US, was signed in 1946.
The US flag’s current 50-star design was introduced in 1960.
President Gerald R. Ford visited Valley Forge, Pennsylvania, Independence Hall in Philadelphia, and New York, where more than 200 ships participated in Operation Sail, as part of the country’s daylong celebrations of its bicentennial in 1976.
Former Gestapo head Klaus Barbie, often known as the Butcher of Lyon, was found guilty of crimes against humanity by a French court in 1987 and given a life sentence; he passed away in September 1991.
After docking together for five days in 1995, the Russian space station Mir and the space shuttle Atlantis parted ways.
Scientists at the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) in Geneva celebrated the apparent conclusion of a decades-long hunt for the Higgs boson, often known as the God particle, a new subatomic particle, in 2012.
Eight months after Superstorm Sandy closed the national emblem of freedom and damaged its docks, the Statue of Liberty reopened on July 4th, 2013.
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