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Day Of The Week: July 4
July 4, 2025 is the 185th day of the year 2025 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 180 days remaining until the end of 2025. The day of the week is Friday.
If you are into daily horoscope then Cancer is your zodiac sign. Ruby is your modern birthstone. Ruby is your mystical birthstone from Tibetan origin that dates back over a thousand years.
Day In History: July 4
The Aphelion, the point in the year when the Earth is farthest from the Sun, occurs around this date.
Historical Events: July 4
- 1774 –Orangetown Resolutions adopted in the Province of New York, one of many protests against the British Parliament’s Coercive Acts
- 1831 –Samuel Francis Smith wrote My Country, 'Tis of Thee for the Boston, MA July 4th festivities.
- 1837 –Grand Junction Railway, the world’s first long-distance railway, opens between Birmingham and Liverpool.
- 1862 –Lewis Carroll tells Alice Liddell a story that would grow into Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland and its sequels.
- 1863 –American Civil War: Siege of Vicksburg – Vicksburg, Mississippi surrenders to Ulysses S. Grant after 47 days of siege. 150 miles up the Mississippi River, a Confederate Army is repulsed at the Battle of Helena, Arkansas.
- 1863 –The Army of Northern Virginia withdraws from the battlefield after its loss at the Battle of Gettysburg, signalling an end to the Southern invasion of the North.
- 1878 –Thoroughbred horses Ten Broeck and Mollie McCarty run a match race, immortalized in the song Molly and Tenbrooks.
- 1881 –In Alabama, the Tuskegee Institute opens.
- 1918 –Ottoman sultan Mehmed VI ascends to the throne.
- 1960 –Due to the post-Independence Day admission of Hawaii as the 50th U.S. state on August 21, 1959, the 50-star flag of the United States debuts in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania almost ten and a half months later (see Flag Act).
Who were born on July 4?
- 1902 –George Murphy, American entertainer (d. 1992)
- 1917 –Manolete, Spanish bullfighter (d. 1947)
- 1926 –Alfredo Di Stéfano, Argentine-Spanish footballer
- 1942 –Stefan Meller, Polish foreign minister (d. 2008)
- 1946 –Ron Kovic, American peace activist
- 1948 –René Arnoux, French race car driver
- 1952 –Álvaro Uribe, President of Colombia
- 1954 –Morganna Roberts, American entertainer
- 1963 –José Oquendo, Puerto Rican baseball player
- 1984 –Gina Glocksen, American singer
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