4th July anniversaries

• Birth
  • 1790
  • Great Britain
  • Birth of Sir George Everest who mapped Mount Everest
  • 1804
  • Great Britain
  • "Birth of Nathaniel Hawthorne, author"
  • 1807
  • Italy
  • "Birth of Giuseppi Garibaldi, Italian politician"
  • 1845
  • Ireland
  • "Birth of Dr Thomas Barnado, child welfare campaigner and founder of Dr Barnado's Homes" more
  • 1872
  • United States
  • "Birth of Calvin Coolidge, 30th US President"
  • 1898
  • United States
  • "Birth of Gertrude Lawrence, actor"
  • 1900
  • United States
  • "Birth of Louis Armstrong, trumpeter"
  • 1918
  • United States
  • "Birth of Ann Landers, American advice columnist ."
• event
  • 1776
  • United States
  • American Declaration of Independence
  • 1829
  • Mauritius
  • London's first regular bus service commenced from Paddington to the City
  • 1829
  • Great Britain
  • First scheduled London bus service started operating
  • 1892
  • Great Britain
  • Keir Hardie became the first socialist to win a seat in the House of Commons.
  • 1934
  • United States
  • Hungarian-born American scientist Dr Leo Szilard patented the nuclear chain-reaction
  • 1958
  • Poland
  • "Karol Wojtyla (later Pope John Paul II) was appointed an auxiliary bishop of Krakow, Poland, by Pope Pius XII."
  • 1958
  • United States
  • American mountaineers Pete Schoening and Andrew Kauffman made the first successful ascent of Gasherbrum I (K5) in the Himalayas – the 11th.
  • 1959
  • United States
  • "The 49-star American flag made its debut, with the newly added 49th star representing Alaska, which had become a state earlier in the year"
  • 1968
  • Great Britain
  • "British sailor Alec Rose landed at Portsmouth, England having sailed single-handed around the world in 354 days."
  • 1998
  • Japan
  • Japan launched a space probe – ‘Nozomi’ – to Mars .
  • 1999
  • Great Britain
  • British footballer David Beckham married Spice Girls singer Victoria Adams
• Death
  • 1623
  • Great Britain
  • "Death of William Byrd, composer"
  • 1826
  • United States
  • "Death of Thomas Jefferson, 3rd US President"
  • 1831
  • United States
  • "Death of James Monroe, 5th US President" more
  • 1934
  • France
  • "Death of Marie Curie, Polish-born French physicist, twice winner of the Nobel Prize for her work on radioactivity, first woman to win a Nobel Prize"