What are the important events that happened on July 4? Here are historical events, facts, and some myths about this day.

July 4: Facts & Myths About This Day

July 4 is the 185^th day of the year 2025 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 180 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Friday.

Under the Julian calendar, this day is June 21, 2025 – a Friday. Both day of the week are the same but did you notice the difference with the Gregorian calendar?

When this day started, 1,751,587,200 seconds has elapsed since midnight of January 1, 1970 – the Unix epoch.

Strange as it may, if we name this day after a polygon then it will be called ‘hectaoctacontapentagon’ day.

Cancer is the zodiac sign of a person born on this day. Ruby is the modern birthstone for this month. Ruby is the mystical birthstone from Tibetan origin that dates back over a thousand years.

According to the lunisolar Chinese calendar, there are 228 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.

The ancient Maya civilization believes that the end of the world will happen on December 21, 2012. There are now 4,578 days since this fabled cataclysmic event.

July 4: This Day In History

The Aphelion, the point in the year when the Earth is farthest from the Sun, occurs around this date.

July 4 Historical Events

• 1187 –
  The Crusades: Battle of Hattin – Saladin defeats Guy of Lusignan, King of Jerusalem.
• 1359 –
  Francesco II Ordelaffi of Forlì surrenders to the Papal commander Gil de Albornoz.
• 1754 –
  French and Indian War: George Washington surrenders Fort Necessity to French Capt. Louis Coulon de Villiers.
• 1774 –
  Orangetown Resolutions adopted in the Province of New York, one of many protests against the British Parliament’s Coercive Acts
• 1810 –
  The French occupy Amsterdam.
• 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.
• 1865 –
  Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland is published.
• 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).
• 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
• 1982 –
  Iranian diplomats kidnapping (1982): four Iranian diplomats are kidnapped by Lebanese militia in Lebanon.

Who were born on July 4?

• 1920 –
  Leona Helmsley, American hotel operator and real estate investor (d. 2007)
• 1954 –
  Jim Beattie, American baseball player
• 1957 –
  Princess Chulabhorn of Thailand
• 1963 –
  Henri Leconte, French former tennis player
• 1964 –
  Cle Kooiman, American soccer player
• 1965 –
  Jo Whiley, English radio DJ
• 1966 –
  Lee Reherman, American actor
• 1976 –
  Daijiro Kato, Japanese motorcycle racer (d. 2003)
• 1986 –
  Takahisa Masuda, Japanese singer
• 1990 –
  Rishadi Fauzi, Indonesian soccer player

Who died on July 4?

• 943 –
  Taejo of Goryeo, of Korea (b. 877)
• 1742 –
  Guido Grandi, Italian mathematician (b. 1671)
• 1761 –
  Samuel Richardson, English writer (b. 1689)
• 1881 –
  Johan Vilhelm Snellman, Finnish statesman (b. 1806)
• 1905 –
  Élisée Reclus, French anarchist (b. 1830)
• 1975 –
  Georgette Heyer, English author (b. 1902)
• 1993 –
  Bona Arsenault, French Canadian politician and historian (b. 1903)
• 2001 –
  Keenan Milton, American skateboarder (b. 1974)
• 2008 –
  Terrence Kiel, American football player (b. 1980)
• 2009 –
  Steve McNair, American football player (b. 1973)