So everyone knows that the Fourth of July is "America's Birthday," but you may not know that many other notable events occurred on this day in history. Take a look at the dates below, and feel free to suggest more if you know any!
1054: Brightest known super-nova (Crab Nebula) starts shining (23 days)
1636: City of Providence, Rhode Island form
1653: Barebones Parliment goes into session in England
1776: Declaration of Independence-US gains independence from Britain
1789: 1st US tariff act
1802: US Military Academy officially opens (West Point, NY)
1817: Construction on Erie Canal begins
1819: William Herschel makes last telescopic observation of 1819 comet
1827: Slavery abolished in NY
1828: Construction begins on Band O (Baltimore-Ohio) 1st US passenger RR
1829: Cornerstone laid for 1st US mint (Chestnut & Juniper St, Phila)
1832: "America" 1st sung publicly
1836: Wisconsin Territory formed
1845: Thoreau moves into his shack on Walden Pond
1863: Boise, Idaho founded (now capital of Idaho)
1865: 1st edition of "Alice in Wonderland" is published
1866: Firecracker thrown in wood starts fire destroying « of Portland, Me
1873: Aquarium opens in Woodward Gardens
1874: Social Democratic Workmen's Party of North America formed
1875: White Democrats kill several blacks in terrorist attacks in Vicksburg
1876: 1st public exhibition of electric light in SF
1881: Brooker T Washington establishes Tuskegee Institute
1882: Telegraph Hill Observatory opens in SF
1883: Buffalo Bill Cody presents 1st wild west show, North Platte, Nebr
1884: Statue of Liberty presented to US in Paris
1886: 1st scheduled transcontinental passenger train reaches Pt Moody, BC
1888: 1st organized rodeo competition held, Prescott, Ariz
1889: Washington state constitutional convention holds 1st meeting
1893: A Borrelly discovers asteroid #369 Aeria
1894: Republic of Hawaii established
1898: US flag hoisted over Wake Island (Spanish-American War)
1903: Pacific Cable (SF, Hawaii, Guam, Phil) opens, Pres TR sends message
1910: Jack Johnson KOs James Jeffries in 15 rounds, ending come-back try
1911: Ty Cobb goes 0 for 4 & ends a 40 game hit streak
1912: Detroit Tiger George Mullen no-hits St Louis Browns, 7-0
1914: 1st US motorcycle race (300 miles, Dodge City Ks)
1918: Altar dedicated at full-scale replica of Stonehenge at Maryhill, Wa
1919: M Wolf discovers asteroid #914 Palisana
1925: 44 die when the Dreyfus Hotel in Boston collapses
1933: Work begins on Oakland Bay Bridge
1939: Red Sox Jim Tabor hits 2 grand slams in 1 game and Yankees retire 1st uniform (Lou Gehrig #4), 1st Old Timers Day
1941: Howard Florey & Norman Heatley meet for the 1st time, 11 days later they successfully recreate pencillin
1942: 1st American bombing mission over enemy-occupied Europe (WW II)
1946: Philippines gains independence from US
1950: Truman signs public law 600 (Puerto Ricans write own consitution)
1954: West Germany beats Hungary 3-2 for soccer's 5th World Cup in Bern
1956: US most intense rain fall (1.23" in 1 minute) at Unionville Maryland
1959 Cayman Islands separated from Jamaica, made a crown colony
1960: America's new 50-star flag honoring Hawaiian statehood unfurled
1960: Mickey Mantle hits career homer # 300
1962: Island Records begins
1966: LBJ signs Freedom of Information Act
1967: Freedom of Information Act goes into effect
1969: "Give Peace a Chance" by Plastic Ono Band is released in the UK
1970: Chartered Dan-Air Comet crashes into mountains north of Barcelona, Spain killing 112 vacationing Britons
1973: In audience with Italian cyclists, Pope Paul VI praises athletes who "offer the magnificent show of a healthy, strong, generous youth"
1975: Bundy victim (?) Nancy Baird disappears from Layton, Utah
1976: Raid on Entebbe-Israel rescues 229 Air France passengers
1977: Nigel Harrison replaces Gary Valentine as bassist of Blondie
1978: L Chernykh discovers asteroid #3332
1982: 4th Space Shuttle Mission-Columbia 4 lands at Edwards AFB
1983: Yankee Dave Righetti no-hits the Red Sox
1984: Yuri Sedykh of USSR throws hammer a record 86.33 m
1985: Tinker Bell's nightly flight begins
1987: Nazi Klaus Barbie, "Butcher of Lyon" convicted by a French court
1988: Steffan Edberg beats Boris Becker for Wimbeldon crown
1990: 2 Live Crew release "Banned in the USA" the lyrics quote Star Spangled Banner & Gettysburg Address
2004: The cornerstone of the Freedom Tower was laid at the World Trade Center site.
1054: Brightest known super-nova (Crab Nebula) starts shining (23 days)
1636: City of Providence, Rhode Island form
1653: Barebones Parliment goes into session in England
1776: Declaration of Independence-US gains independence from Britain
1789: 1st US tariff act
1802: US Military Academy officially opens (West Point, NY)
1817: Construction on Erie Canal begins
1819: William Herschel makes last telescopic observation of 1819 comet
1827: Slavery abolished in NY
1828: Construction begins on Band O (Baltimore-Ohio) 1st US passenger RR
1829: Cornerstone laid for 1st US mint (Chestnut & Juniper St, Phila)
1832: "America" 1st sung publicly
1836: Wisconsin Territory formed
1845: Thoreau moves into his shack on Walden Pond
1863: Boise, Idaho founded (now capital of Idaho)
1865: 1st edition of "Alice in Wonderland" is published
1866: Firecracker thrown in wood starts fire destroying « of Portland, Me
1873: Aquarium opens in Woodward Gardens
1874: Social Democratic Workmen's Party of North America formed
1875: White Democrats kill several blacks in terrorist attacks in Vicksburg
1876: 1st public exhibition of electric light in SF
1881: Brooker T Washington establishes Tuskegee Institute
1882: Telegraph Hill Observatory opens in SF
1883: Buffalo Bill Cody presents 1st wild west show, North Platte, Nebr
1884: Statue of Liberty presented to US in Paris
1886: 1st scheduled transcontinental passenger train reaches Pt Moody, BC
1888: 1st organized rodeo competition held, Prescott, Ariz
1889: Washington state constitutional convention holds 1st meeting
1893: A Borrelly discovers asteroid #369 Aeria
1894: Republic of Hawaii established
1898: US flag hoisted over Wake Island (Spanish-American War)
1903: Pacific Cable (SF, Hawaii, Guam, Phil) opens, Pres TR sends message
1910: Jack Johnson KOs James Jeffries in 15 rounds, ending come-back try
1911: Ty Cobb goes 0 for 4 & ends a 40 game hit streak
1912: Detroit Tiger George Mullen no-hits St Louis Browns, 7-0
1914: 1st US motorcycle race (300 miles, Dodge City Ks)
1918: Altar dedicated at full-scale replica of Stonehenge at Maryhill, Wa
1919: M Wolf discovers asteroid #914 Palisana
1925: 44 die when the Dreyfus Hotel in Boston collapses
1933: Work begins on Oakland Bay Bridge
1939: Red Sox Jim Tabor hits 2 grand slams in 1 game and Yankees retire 1st uniform (Lou Gehrig #4), 1st Old Timers Day
1941: Howard Florey & Norman Heatley meet for the 1st time, 11 days later they successfully recreate pencillin
1942: 1st American bombing mission over enemy-occupied Europe (WW II)
1946: Philippines gains independence from US
1950: Truman signs public law 600 (Puerto Ricans write own consitution)
1954: West Germany beats Hungary 3-2 for soccer's 5th World Cup in Bern
1956: US most intense rain fall (1.23" in 1 minute) at Unionville Maryland
1959 Cayman Islands separated from Jamaica, made a crown colony
1960: America's new 50-star flag honoring Hawaiian statehood unfurled
1960: Mickey Mantle hits career homer # 300
1962: Island Records begins
1966: LBJ signs Freedom of Information Act
1967: Freedom of Information Act goes into effect
1969: "Give Peace a Chance" by Plastic Ono Band is released in the UK
1970: Chartered Dan-Air Comet crashes into mountains north of Barcelona, Spain killing 112 vacationing Britons
1973: In audience with Italian cyclists, Pope Paul VI praises athletes who "offer the magnificent show of a healthy, strong, generous youth"
1975: Bundy victim (?) Nancy Baird disappears from Layton, Utah
1976: Raid on Entebbe-Israel rescues 229 Air France passengers
1977: Nigel Harrison replaces Gary Valentine as bassist of Blondie
1978: L Chernykh discovers asteroid #3332
1982: 4th Space Shuttle Mission-Columbia 4 lands at Edwards AFB
1983: Yankee Dave Righetti no-hits the Red Sox
1984: Yuri Sedykh of USSR throws hammer a record 86.33 m
1985: Tinker Bell's nightly flight begins
1987: Nazi Klaus Barbie, "Butcher of Lyon" convicted by a French court
1988: Steffan Edberg beats Boris Becker for Wimbeldon crown
1990: 2 Live Crew release "Banned in the USA" the lyrics quote Star Spangled Banner & Gettysburg Address
2004: The cornerstone of the Freedom Tower was laid at the World Trade Center site.
ps. you may have noticed the temporary patriotic color scheme... ^_^