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On ths day ~ the 4th of July

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 Texas Congress votes for annexation to US

1845 Thoreau moves into his shack on Walden Pond

1862 Lewis Carroll creates Alice in Wonderland for Alice P Liddell

1863 Boise, Idaho founded (now capital of Idaho)

1863 Vicksburg, Mississippi surrenders to Union forces

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 1st US bullfight held (Dodge City Ks)

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 Elwood Haynes successfully tests one of 1st US autos at 6 MPH

1894 Republic of Hawaii established

1898 "La Bourgogne" collides with "Cromartyshire", 560 drown

1898 French liner "La Bourgogne" collides with bark "Cromartyshire", 50 die

1898 US flag hoisted over Wake Island (Spanish-American War)

1903 Pacific Cable (SF, Hawaii, Guam, Phil) opens, Pres TR sends message

1905 Phila A's beat Boston Red Sox 4-2 in 20 inning game

1908 NY Giant George "Hooks" Witse no-hits Phila Phillies, 1-0 in 10 innings

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 Cincinnati Reds are 10« games back in NL, & win the World Series

1919 Jack Dempsey beats Jess Willard in Cuba for heavyweight championship

1919 M Wolf discovers asteroid #914 Palisana

1925 44 die when the Dreyfus Hotel in Boston collapses

1925 Yanks Lefty Grove beats A's Herb Pennock 1-0 in 15 innings

1929 AM radio station WOWO, Indiana's transmitter burns down

1933 Work begins on Oakland Bay Bridge

1938 1st game at Shribe Park, Phila; Braves beat Phillies 10-5

1939 Red Sox Jim Tabor hits 2 grand slams in 1 game

1939 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 Independence National Historical Park established in Philadelphia

1956 US most intense rain fall (1.23" in 1 minute) at Unionville Maryland

1959 America's new 49-star flag honoring Alaska statehood unfurled

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

1967 Phillies Clay Dairymple ties NL record of 6 walks in doubleheader

1969 "Give Peace a Chance" by Plastic Ono Band is released in the UK

1969 140,000 attend Atlanta Pop Festival featuring Led Zep & Janis Joplin

1969 Ann Jones defeats Billie Jean King for Wimbeldon Ladies championship

1970 100 injured in race rioting in Asbury Park NJ

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 Cubs use fielder Larry Bittner as a pitcher

1977 Nigel Harrison replaces Gary Valentine as bassist of Blondie

1978 L Chernykh discovers asteroid #3332

1978 Memphis firefighters halt 3-day strike under a court order

1982 4th Space Shuttle Mission-Columbia 4 lands at Edwards AFB

1982 Jimmy Connors beats John McEnroe for his last Wimbeldon championship

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 Discovery moves to Launch Pad 39B for STS-26 mission

1987 Martina Navratilova wins 6th straight Wimbeldon defeats Steffi Graf

1987 Nazi Klaus Barbie, "Butcher of Lyon" convicted by a French court

1988 Steffan Edberg beats Boris Becker for Wimbeldon crown

1988 US navy shoots down Iranian civilian jetliner over Gulf, kills 290

1990 2 Live Crew release "Banned in the USA" the lyrics quote Star Spangled Banner & Gettysburg Address