4th of July

See also: Category: Holidays July 4

National

•   Bahamas - Queen's Day.
•   Italy - Garibaldi Day.
•   Cayman Islands - Constitution Day.
•   Latvia is the Day of Remembrance for the Victims of the Genocide of the Jewish People .
•   Lesotho - Family Day.
•   Norway is the birthday of Queen Sonia Haraldsen .
•   USA - Independence Day .
•   Tonga - King's Day.
•   Ukraine is the Day of the forensic expert .
•   Ukraine is the Day of the National Police of Ukraine ^[2] .

  Religious

  Catholicism

- the memory of the blessed Catherine Jarriges ;

- the memory of St. Isabella of Portugal ;

- the memory of St. Ulrich of Augsburg ;

- memory of Odo of Canterbury ;

- the memory of Bertha Artoas .

  Orthodoxy ^{[3] [4] [5]}

- The memory of the martyr Julian of Tarsus (c. 305);

- The acquisition of the relics of St. Maxim the Greek (1996);

- memory of martyr Terenty, Bishop of Iconium (I);

- the memory of the Monks Julia, the Presbyter, and Julian, the deacon (V);

- the memory of the martyrs Archil II, tsar of Iversky (744), and Luarsab II , tsar of Kartalinsky (1622) ( Georgian Orthodox Church );

- memory of martyr John Budrin Prester (1918);

- the memory of St. George (Lavrov) , confessor, Archimandrite Danilovsky (1932);

- the memory of the martyrs Alexis Skvortsov , Pavel Uspensky and Nikolai Rozanov presbyters, the martyr Iona (Sankov) , and hieromonk (1938);

- memory of the martyr Nikita Sukharev (1942).

Name Day

• Catholic: Berta, Isabella , Oda / Odo, Ulrich .
• Orthodox: Alexey , Anastasius , Anastasia , Anthony , Archil, Aphrodisias, Vasilisa , George , Dato , Ivan , Iona, Kelsii, Luarsab, Maxim , Marionilla, Nikita , Nikolai , Pavel , Ruf , Terenty , Theodore , Julian , Julius .

See also: Category: July 4th Events

Until the XIX century

• 1054 is a flash of a supernova in the constellation Taurus , the result of which is the Crab Nebula .
• 1631 - the first employment agency, the address bureau, opened in Paris .
• 1776 - Albertina Gallery established in Vienna.
• 1776 - US Declaration of Independence signed.
• 1784 - The emperor of the Holy Roman Empire, Joseph II, annulled the constitution of Hungary and commanded to transfer the Hungarian crown to Vienna .

XIX century

• 1817 - construction of the Erie Canal, connecting the lake of the same name with the Hudson River , began in the USA.
• 1819 - the sloops Vostok and Mirny set off from Kronstadt for a round-the-world voyage. During this expedition the “sixth” continent was discovered.
• 1832 - the first patriotic hymn “America” was performed for the first time in the children's choir in Boston .
• 1832 - The Zoological Museum was founded in St. Petersburg .
• 1848 - The Communist Party Manifesto by Karl Marx was first published.
• 1855 - The first edition of Walt Whitman 's collection of poems, Leaves of Grass.
• 1862 - during a picnic, Charles Dodgson began to tell Alice Liddell a story about a girl who ran after the rabbit to Wonderland. A ten-year-old girl began to insist that he write down the whole story. Dodgson followed the advice and under the name of Lewis Carroll wrote the book " Alice in Wonderland ".
• 1865 - The first edition of Lewis Carroll ’s Alice in Wonderland was published by Macmillan and Co.
• 1874 - the first bridge over the Mississippi is built.
• 1876 - The world's first exhibition of electrical goods opened in San Francisco .
• 1878 - the introduction of the institute of volunteers in Russia (lower ranks of the county police, the closest assistants to the police bailiffs ).
• 1886 - in the town of Prescott ( Arizona ), the American cowboy Buffalo Bill showed the first rodeo competition.
• 1892 - in the state of Samoa, occurred two July 4 in a row, because by order of the King of Samoa moved to the time zone, which is 24 hours ago - to the east of the date line ^[6] , to facilitate trade with the United States.
• 1894 - despite the resistance of monarchists, a republic was proclaimed in the Hawaiian Islands .

XX century

• 1903 - President Roosevelt solemnly announced the opening of the Pacific line, sending a message around the world via a cable laid across the Pacific Ocean.
• 1906 - Great Britain , France and Italy became the guarantors of the independence of Ethiopia .
• 1915 - the ashes of the author of the "Marseillaise" Rouget de Lille reburied in the House of Invalids in Paris.
• 1918 - in the newspaper "Liberty" placed a note "The release of Kuprin." In early spring, the writer was arrested by the Cheka for the publication of an article in defense of Grand Duke Michael.
• 1920 - The First State Theater for Children, created by 17-year-old Natalia Sats , opened with the play “Mowgli”.
• 1924 - the beginning of the establishment of diplomatic relations between the USSR and Albania .
• 1937 - A. Muralov, head of the All-Russian Academy of Agricultural Sciences, was arrested in the USSR.
• 1941
  • The accession of Bessarabia and Northern Bukovina to the USSR was completed .
  • German occupying troops executed representatives of the Polish intelligentsia of Lviv .
  • The Communist Party of Yugoslavia announces the beginning of the guerrilla war against the Nazi invaders.
• 1946
  • Königsberg renamed to Kaliningrad .
  • Recognized independence of the Philippines .
• 1948 - A collision in the sky over Northwood north of London by Douglas DC-6 Scandinavian Airlines and Avro York of the Royal Air Force . All 39 passengers and crew members of both planes died - the largest collision in the sky of Great Britain.
• 1950 - Free Europe radio station went on the air.
• 1957 - the first flight of an Il-18 passenger aircraft.
• 1958
  • Atomic submarine K-3 "Leninsky Komsomol" was the first to launch a nuclear reactor.
  • The Kharkov Tractor Plant produced its 500,000th tractor.
• 1959 - Jamaica received the right of internal self-government, remaining in the West Indies Federation.
• 1960 - The 50th star is added to the US flag in honor of the addition of the Hawaiian Islands.
• 1961
  • The opening of the 7th All-Army Meeting of Komsomol workers.
  • Accident on the Soviet atomic submarine K-19 .
• 1962 - The Island Records record company was formed.
• 1966 - The Beatles caused a scandal in the Philippines , not arriving at the reception, organized by the wife of President Imelda Marcos .
• 1969
  • 140 thousand people gathered at the Atlanta pop festival to see Led Zeppelin and Janis Joplin . The group “ Grand Funk Railroad ” also performed at the same time.
  • John Lennon announced to journalists that he had created a new band, The Plastic Ono Band .
  • The dictator of Spain, General Franco, invited all the inhabitants of Gibraltar to freely accept Spanish citizenship.
• 1972 - A joint statement of the North and the South was signed in Pyongyang and Seoul , signed as a result of negotiations between the official representatives of the DPRK and South Korea and defining the basic principles of the peaceful unification of Korea.
• 1975 - The islands of Cape Verde gained independence from Portugal .
• 1976 - Operation Entebbe : Israeli security forces released the hostages in Ugandan Entebbe airport. During the shootout, 5 Israelis, 6 terrorists and 23 Ugandans were killed. 101 hostage was saved.
• 1982 - three years after the divorce from the first wife of Ozzy Osbourne, he married again to Sharon Arden, the daughter of his manager. Today they have three children, and Sharon became his personal manager.
• 1986 - US President Ronald Reagan in the presence of French President Francois Mitterrand ( François Maurice Adrien Marie Mitterrand ) inaugurated after reconstruction the Statue of Liberty in New York.
• 1987 - The 4th “For Peace” festival was held in Moscow with the participation of “ The Doobie Brothers ”, “ Santana ”, “ Bonnie Raitt ”, as well as Soviet rock bands.
• 1989 - the pilot of the MiG-23 aircraft of the USSR Air Force, taking off in Poland , catapulted on the 41st second of the flight; An unguided aircraft flew 900 km and fell in Belgium after it ran out of fuel. When falling on the ground, 1 person died.
• 1991 - The law on the Arbitration Court was passed in Russia.

XXI century

• 2001 - sculptor Zurab Tsereteli created a monument to Lady Diana Spencer , Princess of Wales, who died in a car accident in 1997 .
• 2003 - Turkmenbashi banned entering universities immediately after school.
• 2004 - Greece became the first European champion in football .
• 2005 - The Deep Impact expedition shell collided with a comet Tempel 1 .
• 2008 - an explosion in Minsk ^[7] .
• 2012 - officially announced the discovery at CERN of a new particle, with properties similar to the predicted Higgs boson ^[8] .

See also: Category: July 4th Born

Until the XIX century

• 1477 - Aventine (d. 1534 ), Bavarian humanist scholar, historian, philologist, educator.
• 1546 - Murad III (d. 1595 ), the 12th Sultan of the Ottoman Empire (1574-1595).
• 1610 - Paul Scarron (died 1660 ), French novelist, playwright and poet (“Virgil inside out”, etc.).
• 1659 - Count Peter Apraksin (d. 1728 ), Russian military leader and statesman, participant of the Northern War , associate of Peter I.
• 1661 - Ivan Buturlin (died 1739 ), Russian general, associate of Peter I , participant of the Northern War .
• 1676 - José Cañizares (died 1750 ), Spanish playwright.
• 1694 - Louis-Claude Daken (died 1772 ), French composer, organist and harpsichordist .
• 1753 - Jean-Pierre Francois Blanchard (d. 1809 ), French inventor and aeronaut; On January 7, 1785, together with American John Jeffreys, he first crossed the English Channel in a balloon.
• 1765 - Count Pierre-Antoine Dupont de l'Etan (died 1840 ) French commander, divisional general.
• 1782 - Alexander Benkendorf (died 1844 ), Russian military and statesman, chief of gendarmes, Chief of the III department (1826-1444).
• 1790 - Sir George Everest (d. 1866 ), a British geographer and surveyor, after whom Chomolungma , the highest peak of the Earth, was named.
• 1799 - Oscar I (nee. Joseph-Oscar Bernadot ; d. 1859 ), king of Sweden and Norway (1844-1859).

XIX century

• 1802 - Josef Labicki (d. 1881 ), Czech bandmaster and composer of music for dancing.
• 1804 - Nathaniel Hawthorne (d. 1864 ), American writer.
• 1807 - Giuseppe Garibaldi (d. 1882 ), commander, politician and revolutionary, general, national hero of Italy.
• 1815 - Pavel Fedotov (died 1852 ), Russian artist, academic painting, graphic artist.
• 1826 - Stephen Foster (died 1864 ), American composer, songwriter and singer.
• 1842 - Hermann Cohen (died 1918 ), German idealist philosopher.
• 1846 - Ivan Zhdanov (died 1901 ), Russian literary critic and folklorist, academician of the Petersburg Academy of Sciences.
• 1853 - Ernst Otto Beckmann (died 1923 ), German chemist, inventor of a differential thermometer.
• 1859 - Charles Dille (died 1944 ), French historian, author of many works on the history of Byzantium .
• 1868 - Maria Andreeva (died 1953 ), Russian actress, public and political figure.
• 1872 - Gaston Montegus (died 1952 ), French singer, songwriter, public figure.
• 1880 - Stellan Rühe (died 1914 ), a Danish filmmaker who made a notable contribution to the development of early German cinema .
• 1883 - Rub Goldberg (d. 1970 ), American cartoon draftsman, sculptor, writer, engineer and inventor.
• 1884 - Louis Meyer (d. 1957 ), American film producer, head of the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer film company.
• 1889 - Joseph Ruttenberg (died 1983 ), American cameraman and photojournalist.
• 1891 - Petro Punch (d. 1978 ), Ukrainian Soviet writer.
• 1899 - Alexander Pirogov (died 1964 ), opera singer (bass), soloist of the Bolshoi Theater, People's Artist of the USSR.
• 1900 - Robert Desnos (died 1945 ), French poet, writer, journalist.

XX century

• 1902 - George Murphy (d. 1992 ), American actor, dancer and politician, winner of the Oscar .
• 1908 - Aurelio Peccei (d. 1984 ), Italian manager ( Fiat ) and public figure.
• 1910 - Gloria Stewart (d. 2010 ), American actress.
• 1913 - Tatiana Eremeeva (d. 2012 ), theater and film actress, People’s Artist of the RSFSR.
• 1917 - Manolete (died in 1947 ), the famous Spanish torero.
• 1918
  • Vladimir Bibler (d. 2000 ), Soviet and Russian philosopher, cultural scientist, author of the “Dialogue of Cultures” concept.
  • Pavel Kogan (died in 1942 ), Soviet poet.
• 1921 - Gerard Debreux (died 2004 ), American economist of French origin, winner of the Nobel Prize (1983).
• 1924 - Eva Marie Saint , American actress, winner of the Academy Award (1955).
• 1926
  • Alfredo Di Stefano (d. 2014 ), Argentine and Spanish footballer.
  • Yermek Serkebayev (d. 2013 ), Kazakh opera and chamber singer (baritone), actor, teacher, people's artist of the USSR.
• 1927
  • Gina Lollobrigida , Italian actress.
  • Neil Simon , American playwright and screenwriter.
• 1930
  • Frunzik Mkrtchyan (d. 1993 ), Soviet and Armenian theater and film actor, theater director, People's Artist of the USSR.
  • Yuri Tyukalov (d. 2018 ), Honored Master of Sports and Honored Coach in Rowing, two-time Olympic champion.
  • Stefan Uger (d. 1993 ), Slovak film director and screenwriter.
• 1939
  • Abdul-Aziz Abdul-Ghani (d. 2011 ), Prime Minister of Yemen .
  • Adolf Shapiro , Soviet, Latvian and Russian theater director and teacher.
• 1940 - Alla Latynina , Soviet and Russian literary critic, literary critic, journalist.
• 1947 - Lembit Ulfsak , Soviet and Estonian theater and film actor, film director.
• 1950 - Artyom Tarasov (d. 2017 ), Soviet and Russian entrepreneur, politician, the first official millionaire in the USSR.
• 1952 - Alvaro Uribe , President of Colombia (2002–2010).
• 1957 - Dmitry Nazarov , theater and film actor, TV host, People’s Artist of Russia.
• 1958 - Kirk Pengilli , Australian musician, songwriter, member of the rock band INXS .
• 1959 - Igor Khristenko , Russian humorist, parodist, theater and film actor.
• 1966 - Anton Nosik (d. 2017 ), Russian and Israeli startup manager, journalist , social activist and popular blogger . Many journalists and Internet activists called one of the "RuNet fathers."
• 1971 - Kate Dickey , Scottish theater, television and film actress ("Game of Thrones", "Prometheus").
• 1976 - Evgenia Medvedeva-Arbuzova , Russian skier, champion and bronze medalist of the Olympic Games ( 2006 ).
• 1981 - Julia Zimina , Russian TV host and actress.

См. также: Категория:Умершие 4 июля

До XIX века

• 1546 — Хайреддин Барбаросса (р. 1475 ), османский корсар, флотоводец и вельможа, адмирал, правитель Алжира (1525—1546).
• 1761 — Сэмюэл Ричардсон (р. 1689 ), английский писатель.

XIX век

• 1826
  • Джон Адамс (р. 1735 ), первый вице-президент и второй президент США (1797—1801).
  • Томас Джефферсон (р. 1743 ), 3-й президент США (1801—1809), один из авторов Декларации независимости .
• 1829 — Иероним Кирилов (в миру Иван; р. 1765) — архимандрит РПЦ; ректор Пермской семинарии и Томского уездного и Томского приходского духовных училищ.
• 1831 — Джеймс Монро (р. 1758 ), 5-й президент США (1817—1825).
• 1848 — Франсуа Рене де Шатобриан (р. 1768 ), французский писатель и политик.
• 1851 — Карл Фридрих фон Ледебур (р. 1785 ), немецкий учёный, педагог и путешественник на русской службе.

XX век

• 1902 - Vivekananda (b. 1863 ), Indian philosopher and social activist.
• 1905 - Elise Reclues (b. 1830 ), French geographer and historian, anarchist, member of the Paris Commune .
• 1910 - Giovanni Virginio Schiaparelli (b. 1835 ), Italian astronomer.
• 1913 - Nadezhda Zabela-Vrubel (b. 1868 ), Russian singer ( soprano ), wife and muse M. A. Vrubel .
• 1921 - Anthony Grabowski (b. 1857 ), Polish chemical engineer, poet.
• 1934
  • Marie Curie (b. 1867 ), French physicist and chemist, Nobel Prize in Physics (1903) and Chemistry (1911).
  • Chaim Nachman Bialik (b. 1873 ), Jewish writer.
• 1939 - Louis Wayne (b. 1860 ), English artist.
• 1941 - Stepan Suprun (b. 1907 ), Soviet test pilot and fighter, twice Hero of the Soviet Union, died.
• 1946 - Otenio Abel (b. 1875 ), Austrian paleontologist.
• 1948 - Monteiro Lobatu (born 1882 ), Brazilian writer, translator, art critic.
• 1964 - Samuel Marshak (b. 1887 ), Soviet poet, playwright, translator, critic.
• 1969 - Mikhail Khergiani (born 1932 ), a Soviet mountaineer, seven-time champion of the USSR, died.
• 1970 - Barnett Newman (b. 1905 ), American abstract artist.
• 1992
  • Astor Piazzolla (b. 1921 ), Argentine musician and composer.
  • Lyudmila Tselikovskaya (b. 1919 ), theater and film actress, People's Artist of the RSFSR.
  • Stepan Ozhigin (b. 1916 ), theater actor, people's artist of the RSFSR.
• 1993 - Roman Kachanov (born 1921 ), director, screenwriter, one of the founders of the Soviet puppet animation.
• 1997 - Bengt Danielsson (born 1921 ), Swedish ethnographer, member of the expedition on the Kon-Tiki raft.
• 1998
  • Victor Koretsky (b. 1909 ), Soviet graphic artist, poster artist.
  • Janusz Pshimanovsky (b. 1922 ), Polish writer, poet, essayist.
• 2000 - Yuri Klinskikh (Khoi) (b. 1964 ), leader of the Gaza Sector group.

XXI century

• 2003 - Barry White (b. 1944 ), American singer.
• 2006 - Andrei Krasko (born 1957 ), Russian film and theater actor.
• 2011 - Otto von Habsburg (b. 1912 ), Crown Prince of Austria-Hungary .
• 2017
  • Daniel Granin (b. 1919 ), Russian writer, screenwriter, public figure.
  • Svetlana Karmalita (b. 1940 ), Soviet and Russian screenwriter, winner of the USSR State Prize.

• Terenty. On this day linden blossoms, the tea from the golden petals of which protects against colds . ^[9]