Today's 4 July Major Events in History

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836 Pactum Sicardi is signed, a peace agreement between the Principality of Benevento and the Duchy of Naples
993 Saint Ulrich of Augsburg is canonized
1054 Brightest known supernova SN 1054 (creates the Crab Nebula) is first reported by Chinese astronomers

1120 Jordan II of Capua is anointed prince after his infant nephew's death

Battle of Hattin

1187 Battle of Hattin: Muslim armies under Saladin defeat Crusader forces at Hittin, Palestine, near Tiberias in present-day Israel

1301 Battle at Breukelen fought between Holland and Lichtenberg
1359 Francesco II Ordelaffi of Forlì surrenders to the Papal commander Gil de Albornoz
1415 Angelo Correr renounces his claim to the Papacy as Pope Gregory XII
1453 41 Jewish martyrs are burned at stake at Breslau (now Wrocław, Poland)

King Christian III

1534 Christian III is elected King of Denmark and Norway in the town of Rye

Battle of Klushino

1610 Battle of Klushino: King Sigismund III's Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth army defeats Russia and Sweden

1634 The city of Trois-Rivières is founded in New France, later to become the Canadian province of Quebec
1636 Providence, Rhode Island, is founded by Roger Williams after his exile from the Massachusetts Bay Colony
1652 Massacre at the Hôtel de Ville, Paris, resulting in 150 dead
1653 English Barebones Parliament goes into session

William III Takes Power

1672 States of Holland declare the "Eternal Edict" void and appoint William III as stadholder

Battle of Holowczyn

1708 Battle of Holowczyn: Swedish King Charles XII defeats superior Russian force in surprising victory

Fort Necessity Abandoned

1754 George Washington abandons Fort Necessity to French and Native American forces, who begin to loot

1774 Orangetown Resolutions adopted in the Province of New York, one of many protests against the British Parliament's Coercive Acts

1776 According to popular legend, the Liberty Bell rings for the Second Continental Congress

1776 US Congress proclaims the Declaration of Independence and independence from Great Britain

1777 First organized Independence Day celebrations are held in Philadelphia and Boston
1779 French forces successfully capture the British-held island Grenada

Uniformitarianism

1785 Geologist James Hutton publicly reads an abstract of his theory of uniformitarianism for the first time at a meeting of the Royal Society of Edinburgh

1789 First US tariff act signed by President Washington
1802 First US Military Academy opens at West Point, New York

Louisiana Purchase

1803 The Louisiana Purchase is announced to the American people by President Thomas Jefferson

1810 French troops begin to occupy Amsterdam, Netherlands
1817 Chief Engineer James Geddes begins construction on the Erie Canal, (Rome, New York), one of the first great engineering works in North America

Herschel’s Final Comet Gaze

1819 Astronomer William Herschel makes his last telescopic observation of 1819 comet

1826 Past presidents Thomas Jefferson and John Adams both die on the 50th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence, President John Quincy Adams calls "visible and palpable remarks of Divine Favor"

1827 Slavery is abolished in New York
1828 Construction begins on the Baltimore-Ohio railroad, becoming the first US passenger railway
1829 Cornerstone is laid for the second US Mint at Chestnut and Juniper Streets, Philadelphia, the "Grecian Temple"
1829 The first London bus "omnibus," operated by George Shillibeer, begins service between Marylebone Road and Bank Junction
1831 "America (My Country 'Tis of Thee)" with lyrics by Samuel Francis Smith has its first public performance at Park Street Church in Boston, Massachusetts
1837 Grand Junction Railway, the world's first long-distance railway, opens between Birmingham and Liverpool
1838 Huskar Pit Disaster: 26 children drown while trying to escape flooding in the Silkstone Colliery in England. Leads to the 1842 Mines Act, which bans women and children from working underground. [1]
1838 Iowa Territory is organised from Wisconsin Territory, lasting until 1846
1840 The Cunard Line's 700-ton wooden paddle steamer RMS Britannia departs from Liverpool bound for Halifax, Nova Scotia, on the first transatlantic crossing with a scheduled end

Thoreau Moves to Walden

1845 American philosopher and naturalist Henry David Thoreau moves into his shack on Walden Pond

1845 Texas Congress votes almost unanimously for annexation to US

Leaves of Grass

1855 In Brooklyn, New York, the first edition of Walt Whitman's book of poems, "Leaves of Grass," is published

1861 In a special session of Congress, US President Abraham Lincoln requests 400,000 troops to preserve the Union
1861 Skirmish at Harper's Ferry, West Virginia

Alice in Wonderland

1862 Charles Dodgson (Lewis Carroll) creates Alice in Wonderland for Alice Liddell during a family boat trip on the River Isis (Thames) in Oxford

1862 Confederate General Morgan's army leave Knoxville, Tennessee, for Tompkinsville, Kentucky; they capture Tompkinsville five days later
1863 American Civil War: Confederates surrender to Union forces in Vicksburg, Mississippi, after more than 40 days
1863 Boise, Idaho, is founded (now capital of Idaho)
1863 Failed Confederate assault on Helena, Arkansas, resulting in 1,600 casualties

Withdrawal from Gettsburg

1863 General Lee's army withdraws from the Battle of Gettysburg

1863 Skirmish at Smithburg, Tennessee
1865 First edition of "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland" by Lewis Carroll is published
1866 Firecracker thrown in wood starts fire destroying half of Portland, Maine
1867 The Republican Party of Texas is founded in Houston, with a goal regaining admittance to the union after the US Civil War
1868 Battle at Ueno, Japan: last Tokugawa armies defeated
1868 Māori leader Te Kooti and 300 of his followers capture the schooner Rifleman in the Chatham Islands and sail to New Zealand, landing at Whareongaonga six days later
1873 Aquarium opens in Woodward Gardens, San Francisco
1874 Social Democratic Workmen's Party of North America is founded
1876 First public exhibition of electric light in San Francisco
1876 Frédéric Auguste Bartholdi visits Bedloe Island, future home of his Statue of Liberty
1879 Afrikaner Union is formed by Reverend S.J. du Toitat in the Cape Colony
1879 Battle at Ulundi: Lord Chelmsford beats Zulu King Cetshwayo

1882 Telegraph Hill Observatory opens in San Francisco
1884 First US bullfight held in Dodge City, Kansas

1884 France presents the Statue of Liberty to the United States in Paris, honoring the friendship between the two nations and their shared ideals of freedom and democracy

1886 First scheduled transcontinental passenger train reaches Port Moody, British Columbia

Jinnah Begins Studies

1887 Future founder of Pakistan, Muhammad Ali Jinnah, begins his studies at Sindh Madressatul Islam University in Karachi

1888 First organized rodeo competition held in Prescott, Arizona
1889 Washington state constitutional convention holds its first meeting in the capitol building Olympia
1892 James Keir Hardie is elected the first Independent labour Member of Parliament
1892 Western Samoa changes the International Date Line, resulting in 367 days in the country that year with two occurrences of Monday, July 4
1894 Elwood Haynes successfully tests one of the first US autos, his one-cylinder and one-horsepower vehicle, at 6 mph
1894 Republic of Hawai'i is proclaimed, Sanford B Dole as serves as the first and only elected president
1895 Katharine Lee Bates publishes her iconic poem "America the Beautiful"
1898 French ship SS La Bourgogne collides with sailing ship Cromartyshire off Cape Sable, Nova Scotia, killing more than 550 people
1898 Spanish–American War: US flag hoisted over Wake Island
1900 Williams Jennings Bryan is nominated as Democratic Party presidential candidate, USA

1st Governor-General of the Philippines

1901 Former US Federal judge William Howard Taft is installed as the 1st Governor-General of the Philippines; declares an amnesty for all insurgents who take an oath of allegiance

Civil Government

1902 Civil government is established in the Philippines by a proclamation from US President Theodore Roosevelt, who offers a general amnesty to insurgents

1903 Pacific Cable (San Francisco, Hawaii, Guam, Philippines) opens, President Theodore Roosevelt sends a message
1905 Baseball Hall of Fame pitchers Rube Waddell (A's) and Cy Young (Boston) matchup in 20-inning classic; Philadelphia win, 4-2
1906 Great Britain, France, and Italy declare independence of Ethiopia (Abyssinia), but all lay claim to their own "spheres of influence" in that land

Burns KOs Squires

1907 Canadian world heavyweight boxing champion Tommy Burns KOs Bill Squires of Australia in round 1 in Colma, California, his 6th title defense

1908 MLB New York Giants pitcher George "Hooks" Wiltse no-hits Philadelphia Phillies, 1-0 in 10 inning; missed a perfect game by hitting one batter with a pitch (Polo Grounds, NYC)
1909 British Secret Service Bureau forms foreign section, the Secret Intelligence Service (SIS), commonly known as MI6

1910 In a mutual defense agreements, Japan and Russia delineate their spheres of interest in Manchuria
1910 The US Congress pass the Mann-Elkins Act, an important piece of railroad reform legislation

Cobb's Winning Streak Halted

1911 Chicago White Sox pitcher Ed Walsh halts Ty Cobb's 40-game hitting streak as Cobb goes 0 for 4 in a 7-3 win over Detroit Tigers at Bennett Park

1911 Record high of 105°F (41°C) at Vernon, Vermont
1911 Record high of 106°F (41°C) at Nashua, New Hampshire
1912 Detroit Tigers pitcher George Mullen throws first no-hitter, defeating St. Louis Browns 7-0
1912 Jack Johnson beats "Fireman" Jim Flynn by disqualification in 9 in Las Vegas to retain world heavyweight boxing title

1917 Troops of the Russian Provisional Government open fire on protesters in Petrograd during the 'July Days' of unrest

1918 Altar dedicated at full-scale replica of Stonehenge at Maryhill, Washington

1918 The last Ottoman Sultan ascends the throne, Sultan Mehmed VI, who rules until the monarchy is abolished in 1922

Dempsey vs Willard

1919 Jack Dempsey beats champion Jess Willard, retired in 3rd round in Toledo, Ohio for world heavyweight championship

1920 The provisional government of Siberia's Maritime Province agrees to hand over parts of the strategic oil- and coal-rich Sakhalin Islands to Japan
1923 Jack Dempsey beats Tommy Gibbons on points over 15 hard fought rounds in Shelby, Montana to retain world heavyweight boxing title
1924 Italian immigrant chef Caesar Cardini, creates his famous salad for the very first time, at his restaurant in Tijuana, Mexico [1]
1925 MLB New York Yankees Herb Pennock beats Philadelphia A's Lefty Grove 1-0 in 15 innings in first game of a doubleheader at Yankee Stadium
1925 The former Dreyfus Hotel collapses in Boston, Massachusetts, killing 44 of an estimated 200 patrons dancing in the second floor Pickwick Club
1926 NSDAP Party (Nazi Party) holds its second conference in Weimar
1927 First flight of the Lockheed Vega, a pilot plus four-passenger monoplane; its 225 HP engine allowed cruising speed of 120 MPH

Sukarno Forms Independence Party

1927 Sukarno and friends form the pro-Indonesian independence party, the PNI (Perserikatan Nasional Indonesia) in Batavia, Dutch East Indies

1929 AM radio station WOWO burns down in Fort Wayne, Indiana
1931 First fireworks are held at Cleveland Stadium to celebrate Independence Day
1931 First Trailside Museum opens in the Cleveland Metroparks
1932 Don Bradman scores a North American record 260 v Western Ontario in Guelph during Australian cricket team's Goodwill Tour of North America

Atomic Chain-reaction Patented

1934 Hungarian physicist Leó Szilárd patents the chain-reaction design for the atomic bomb

1934 Jordaanoproer, Jordaan riot: Jordan-working class revolt in Amsterdam after reduction in employment
1936 League of Nations ends sanctions against Italy after Italian takeover of Abyssinia
1938 France and Turkey sign a friendship treaty
1938 MLB Phillies complete move from the Baker Bowl to Shibe Park, five blocks apart in Philadelphia; lose 10-5 to Boston Bees [1]

Gehrig 1st Number Retired

1939 Lou Gehrig is the first MLB player to have his number (4) retired on his "Appreciation Day" at Yankee Stadium and makes the iconic "luckiest man" speech

1939 Red Sox third baseman Jim Tabor hits record-tying 2 grand slams in one MLB game, 18-12 win v Phillies
1940 WWII: British Navy bombards neutral French battle fleet at Mers El Kébir, near Oran, French Algeria to prevent Axis powers from taking the ships; 1,267 French serviceman die with one ship sunk and five more damaged
1941 Communist Party of Yugoslavia (CPY) formally calls for a popular uprising against German occupation forces

Penicillin Creators Met

1941 Howard Florey and Norman Heatley meet for the first time and successfully recreate penicillin 11 days later

1941 Latvian partisans shoot 416 Jews dead
1941 Massacre of the Lwów professors: Nazi occupying forces shoot and kill 25 Polish professors from Lwów and other family members [1]
1942 First American bombing missions over Nazi Germany-occupied Europe in WWII

This Is The Army

1942 Irving Berlin's musical benefit "This Is The Army," featuring a cast of US soldiers, opens at the Broadway Theatre in NYC; planned limited run of four weeks extended to 12 weeks

1942 Siege of Sevastopol ends with the surrender of Soviet forces and after massive German bombing raids that leave just 11 city buildings undamaged

1942 US air offensive against Nazi Germany begins
1944 Allied forces in Normandy fire a coordinated Fourth of July salute against German lines, using 1,100 American guns
1944 Operation Windsor: Canadian Infantries launches an assault on Carpiquet and the adjacent airfield; Canadian victory

1944 US naval forces engage in airstrikes against Iwo Jima and the Bonin Islands

1945 Field Marshal Henry Maitland Wilson gives Britain's agreement to use the atomic bomb against Japan at the Combined Policy Committee in Washington, D. C.
1946 Anti-Jewish pogrom in Kielce, Poland, killing 42 Jewish people and injuring 40 more
1946 Philippines gains independence from US as a sovereign country

President Manuel Roxas

1946 President Manuel Roxas inaugurated as the 5th President of the Philippines and the 1st President of an independent Philippines at the Independence Grandstand, Manila

1950 Boston Braves slugger Sid Gordon ties MLB season grand slam record (4) with a bases loaded hit vs Phillies
1950 Harry Truman signs public law 600 (Puerto Ricans write own constitution)
1950 The first broadcast by Radio Free Europe
1952 Canadian Currency, Mint and Exchange Fund Act allows gold coins of $5, $10, and $20 to be minted
1953 Imre Nagy succeeds Mátyás Rákosi as Chairman of the Council of Ministers of Hungry (de facto Prime Minister)
1954 Dr Sam Sheppard's wife Marilyn is murdered, he is accused of the crime
1954 FIFA World Cup Final, Wankdorf Stadium, Bern, Switzerland: Helmut Rahn scores twice as West Germany beats Hungary, 3-2
1954 Meat and all other food rationing officially ends in Britain, nine years after the end of World War II
1954 WMSL (WYUR, now WAFF) TV channel 48 in Huntsville, Alabama (ABC) begins broadcasting
1956 Independence National Historical Park forms in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
1956 US most intense rain fall 1.23 inches in 1 minute at Unionville, Maryland
1959 America's new 49-star flag honoring Alaska's statehood becomes official
1959 Cayman Islands separate from Jamaica, becoming a separate Crown colony
1959 Island Records founded in Jamaica
1960 America's new 50-star flag honoring Hawai'i's statehood becomes official
1960 Yankees outfielder Mickey Mantle hits a three-run homer against Washington, becoming the 18th MLB player to hit 300 home runs
1961 Walt Disney is one of the two main speakers at the Danish-American Fourth of July Festival in The Rebuild Hills at Skørping, Denmark
1962 KTRG-TV (now KHNL) TV channel 13 in Honolulu, Hawaiʻi (IND) begins broadcasting
1964 Beachboys' "I Get Around" reaches #1

Beatles Attacked

1966 The Beatles are attacked by an angry mob in the Philippines after unintentionally insulting First Lady Imelda Marcos by declining a state breakfast invitation

1967 Opening ceremony of Tassajara Zen Mountain Center, founded by Shunryu Suzuki Roshi

Indians

1968 Arthur Kopit's play "Indians," based on the life of Buffalo Bill Cody, premieres in London with the Royal Shakespeare Company

1968 Lowest temperature ever recorded in Cleveland in July at 41°F
1968 NASA's satellite to study Radio astronomy, Explorer 38, launches
1969 "Give Peace a Chance" single by John Lennon & Plastic Ono Band is released in the UK

1969 Severe wind event, the Ohio Fireworks Derecho kills 18 people in Ohio and destroys over 100 boats on Lake Erie
1969 USSR performs nuclear test at the Semipalatinsk Test Site in northeast Kazakhstan
1970 100 injured in race rioting in Asbury Park, New Jersey

American Top 40 Debuts

1970 Casey Kasem's countdown radio program "American Top 40" debuts on Los Angeles radio

1970 Dan-Air Flight 1903 crashes into mountains north of Barcelona, Spain, killing all 112 people onboard
1970 The Falls Road curfew in North Ireland, imposed by the British Army while searching for IRA weapons, continues throughout the day; a man is killed by the British Army
1971 France performs nuclear test at Mururoa Atoll
1972 The Royal Ulster Constabulary forward a file about the killings on Bloody Sunday (30 January 1972) to the Director of Public Prosecutions for Northern Ireland

Absurd Person Singular

1973 Alan Ayckbourn's play "Absurd Person Singular," makes its London debut

1973 Caribbean Community and Common Market (CARICOM) is established
1974 Mike Marshall goes 9-0 with 3 saves in 20 appearances in 30 days

Nancy Baird Disappears

1975 Ted Bundy victim Nancy Baird disappears from Layton, Utah, while working at a gas station

1976 Opening ceremony of the Dai Bosatsu Zendo Kongo-ji Zen monastery at Livingston Manor, high in the Catskill Mountains of New York
1977 Nigel Harrison replaces Gary Valentine as the bassist for Blondie
1977 Norman Lear's late night television talk show parody "Fernwood 2-Night," starring Martin Mull, Fred Willard, and Frank De Vol, debuts in syndication
1977 Red Sox end 9-game losing streak by smashing a MLB-record 8 HRs in a 9-6 win vs Toronto at Fenway Park
1978 Memphis firefighters halt three-day strike under a court order

Ben Bella Freed

1979 Algerian former president Ahmed Ben Bella is freed after spending more than a decade under house arrest

1980 Nolan Ryan (Houston Astros) fans Reds' César Gerónimo to become 4th pitcher to 3,000 MLB strikeouts
1982 4th NASA Space Shuttle Mission: Columbia 4 (STS-4) lands at Edwards AFB
1982 Miguel de la Madrid Hurtado is elected president of Mexico
1982 USSR performs nuclear test at the Semipalatinsk Test Site in northeast Kazakhstan
1983 NY Yankee pitcher Dave Righetti no-hits the Boston Red Sox, 4-0 at Yankee Stadium
1984 New York Yankees pitcher Phil Niekro strikes out Larry Parish (Texas Rangers) to become the 9th player to reach the 3,000 MLB strikeout milestone

Butcher of Lyon Sentenced

1987 Nazi Klaus Barbie, "Butcher of Lyon," is sentenced to life imprisonment in France

1987 Space Shuttle Discovery moves to Launch Pad 39B for STS-26 mission
1988 After a poor start to the season Kansas City Royals release Dan Quisenberry (record 5-time AL saves leader)
1988 US Navy shoots down Iranian civilian jetliner over Gulf, killing 290 people
1989 Unmanned Soviet Mig-23 crashes into a house in Bellegem, near Belgium, killing one person
1990 2 Live Crew release "Banned in the USA" the lyrics quote Star Spangled Banner and Gettysburg Address
1990 400 New Kids on the Block fans treated for heat exhaustion in Minnesota
1990 France performs nuclear test at Mururoa Atoll
1992 Rocker John Phillips (Mamas & Papas) undergoes a liver transplant
1993 Pilar Fort crowned 25th Miss Black America
1993 Pizza Hut blimp deflates and lands safely on W 56th Street in NYC
1994 FIFA World Cup: A Bebeto strike saves Brazil from embarrassment, beat USA 1-0 at Stanford
1994 Rwandese Patriotic Front occupies Kigali
1995 Birmingham Barracudas (based in Alabama) play 1st CFL game beating Winnipeg 38-10 but failed experiment only lasts one season
1996 Hotmail, a free internet E-mail service begins
1997 Amado Carrillo Fuentes undergoes plastic surgery in Mexico City to change his appearance
1997 NASA's space probe Pathfinder lands on the Ares Vallis region of Mars
2000 Canadian jockey Russell Baze scores his 7,000th career victory aboard This Is the Moment at the Alameda County Fair in Pleasanton, California
2001 In a world record fee for a soccer goalkeeper, Juventus signs Parma's Gianluigi Buffon in a £32.5m deal including midfielder Jonathan Bachini
2002 Early morning house fire claims lives of three children and three firefighters in Gloucester City, New Jersey; careless cigarette smoking the likely cause

Kobe Bryant Arrested

2003 LA Lakers basketball star Kobe Bryant is arrested in Eagle, Colorado, for sexual assault; charges eventually dismissed after the victim decides not to participate [1]

2004 The cornerstone of the Freedom Tower is laid on the site of the World Trade Center in New York City (largely a symbolic event; actual construction would not start for several weeks)
2005 The Deep Impact collider hits the comet Tempel 1
2006 North Korea tests four short-range missiles, one medium-range missile, and a long-range Taepodong-2; long-range Taepodong-2 reportedly fails in mid-air over the Sea of Japan/East Sea

2006 Space Shuttle program: STS-121 Mission, Space Shuttle Discovery launches at 18:37:55 UTC
2006 Sri Lanka sets new ODI cricket record score 443-9 in a World Cup win over Netherlands in Amstelveen (Jayasuriya 157, Dilshan 117no)
2009 The Statue of Liberty's crown reopens to the public after eight years, due to security reasons following the World Trade Center attacks
2012 12th century manuscript Codex Calixtinus from Santiago de Compostela Cathedral, Spain, is rediscovered after been stolen in the garage of an employee of the cathedral [1]
2012 Scientists at CERN's Large Hadron Collider announce the discovery of a new particle consistent with the Higgs boson, called the "God particle"
2013 12 people are killed and 60 are injured in a wave of shootings across Chicago
2015 Matt "Megatoad" Stonie, in an upset, defeats 8x hot dog eating champion Joey "Jaws" Chestnut at Nathan's Famous, Coney Island with 62 hot dogs
2015 Super Rugby Final, Westpac Stadium, Wellington: Otago Highlanders beat Wellington Hurricanes 21-14 for their first title
2015 Unesco grants World Heritage Status to vineyards in Champagne, France, along with Singapore's Botanical Gardens, Turkey's Diyarbakir Fortress, and Iran's Maymand Caves
2016 NASA's Juno spacecraft successfully enters Jupiter's orbit
2017 North Korea test-fires its first successful intercontinental ballistic missile into the Sea of Japan
2018 Chinese technology company Baidu announces it has begun mass production of self-driving buses, the 14-seat Apolong
2018 Hong Kong'stop court rules same-sex couples entitled to equal visa rights in landmark case
2018 Wildfire in Yolo county, California, grows to 82,700 acres with 2,800 fire fighters battling the blaze
2019 Biggest seaweed bloom in the world; the Great Atlantic Sargassum Belt stretches from West Africa to the Gulf of Mexico after algae explosion due to deforestation and fertiliser

Claim Tutankhamun Bust Stolen

2019 Egypt claims 3,000-year-old Tutankhamun bust is stolen as it sells for $6 million at auction at Christies

2019 Largest earthquake in California in 20 years, 6.4 magnitude near Ridgecrest
2019 Notorious Dutch crime boss Willem Holleeder is sentenced to life for ordering five murders in Amsterdam
2019 Record temperatures in Alaska as Anchorage reaches 90ºF (32ºC)

2019 UN accuses Venezuelan government of using death squads and policy of installing fear to remove opposition with 5,287 people killed in 2018 for supposedly resisting arrest

Trumps' Salute to America Celebration

2019 US President Donald Trump holds a “Salute to America” Fourth of July celebration in Washington, D.C.; controversial for its emphasis on the military and presence of tanks

2019 US publication Mad Magazine announces it will stop publishing new material after 67 years
2020 Record rain in over island of Kyushu in Japan causes flooding, killing 77 people and evacuations of more than 1 million people
2021 Columbus Blue Jackets' 24-year-old Latvian goaltender Matīss Kivlenieks is killed when accidentally struck by fireworks at the home of team goaltending coach Manny Legace in Novi, Michigan
2021 Military plane crashes near Jolo, Philippines, killing 50 people, injuring 46, and 54 saved from the burning wreckage

Pope in Surgery

2021 Pope Francis undergoes surgery to remove part of his colon in Rome

2022 Lone shooter at a Fourth of July parade in Highland Park, Chicago, kills seven and wounds 47; shooter later captured [1]
2022 Minneosta Twins turn 1st 8-5 triple play in MLB history as centerfielder Byron Buxton makes a catch and third baseman Gio Urshela tags one runner out in the basepath and doubles-off another runner by tagging second base against White Sox in Chicago
2023 Australian rules player Heather Anderson first known professional female athlete to be diagnosed with degenerative brain disease chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE) after landmark diagnosis at Australian Sports Brain Bank [1]
2023 Hottest global temperature ever recorded as average global temperature tops 17.18 degrees Celsius (previous record 17.01 degrees Celsius July 3, 2023) [1]

Oasis Reunion Tour

2025 Liam and Noel Gallagher begin Oasis Live '25 reunion tour at Principality Stadium, Cardiff, Wales, ending their 16-year split [1]

2025 MLB Chicago Cubs belt franchise record 8 home runs in 11-3 win over visiting St. Louis Cardinals at Wrigley Field
2025 Overnight flash flood in Kerr County, Texas, along the Guadalupe River kills at least 139 people
2025 R&B singer Jazmine Sullivan withdraws from Fourth of July concert in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, in support of striking blue-collar municipal workers
2025 US President Donald Trump signs his 'One Big Beautiful Bill' into law, narrowly passed by Senate, 51-50, and by House of Representatives, 218-214; five Republicans joined all Democrats in opposition [1] [2]