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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
- 1054 –A supernova is seen by Chinese, Arab, and possibly Amerindian observers near the star Zeta Tauri. For several months it remains bright enough to be seen during the day. Its remnants form the Crab Nebula.
- 1253 –Battle of West-Capelle: John I of Avesnes defeats Guy of Dampierre.
- 1456 –The Siege of Nándorfehérvár (Belgrade) begins. (Part of the Ottoman wars in Europe)
- 1636 –City of Providence, Rhode Island forms.
- 1802 –At West Point, New York the United States Military Academy opens.
- 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.
- 1951 –A court in Czechoslovakia sentences American journalist William N. Oatis to ten years in prison on a charge of espionage.
- 1977 –The George Jackson Brigade plants a bomb at the main power substation for the Washington state capitol in Olympia in solidarity with a prison strike at the Walla Walla State Penitentiary Intensive Security Unit
- 1997 –NASA’s Pathfinder space probe lands on the surface of Mars.
- 2005 –The Deep Impact collider hits the comet Tempel 1.
Who were born on July 4?
- 1790 –George Everest, Welsh surveyor (d. 1866)
- 1804 –Nathaniel Hawthorne, American writer (d. 1864)
- 1868 –Henrietta Swan Leavitt, American astronomer (d. 1921)
- 1918 –Abigail Van Buren, American advice columnist
- 1920 –Norm Drucker, American basketball referee
- 1927 –Gina Lollobrigida, Italian actress
- 1945 –Bruce French, American actor
- 1962 –Neil Morrissey, English actor
- 1979 –Renny Vega, Venezuelan soccer player
- 1985 –Kane Tenace, Australian rules footballer
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