This Day in History July 4

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1636 City of Providence, Rhode Island form

[color=blue:a0674cf8ee]1776 Declaration of Independence-US gains independence from Britain[/color:a0674cf8ee]
1789 1st US tariff act
1802 US Military Academy officially opens (West Point, NY)
1817 Construction on Erie Canal begins
1828 Construction begins on Band O (Baltimore-Ohio) 1st US passenger RR
1832 "America" 1st sung publicly
1836 Wisconsin Territory formed
1845 Texas Congress votes for annexation to US
1863 Boise, Idaho founded (now capital of Idaho)
1863 Vicksburg, Mississippi surrenders to Union forces
1876 1st public exhibition of electric light in SF
1882 Telegraph Hill Observatory opens in SF
1883 Buffalo Bill Cody presents 1st wild west show, North Platte, Nebr
1884 Statue of Liberty presented to US in Paris
1886 1st scheduled transcontinental passenger train reaches Pt Moody, BC
1889 Washington state constitutional convention holds 1st meeting
1894 Elwood Haynes successfully tests one of 1st US autos at 6 MPH
1894 Republic of Hawaii established
1898 US flag hoisted over Wake Island (Spanish-American War)
1933 Work begins on Oakland Bay Bridge
1942 1st American bombing mission over enemy-occupied Europe (WW II)
1946 Philippines gains independence from US
1956 Independence National Historical Park established in Philadelphia
1959 America's new 49-star flag honoring Alaska statehood unfurled
1959 Cayman Islands separated from Jamaica, made a crown colony
1960 America's new 50-star flag honoring Hawaiian statehood unfurled
1967 Freedom of Information Act goes into effect
1970 Chartered Dan-Air Comet crashes into mountains north of Barcelona, Spain
1978 Memphis firefighters halt 3-day strike under a court order
1987 Discovery moves to Launch Pad 39B for STS-26 mission

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You missed July 4, 1826; John Adams and Thomas Jefferson both died on the 50th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence.

I thought we declared our independence on July 4th. Didn't get it after several years of fighting a war with England.

I could have also included James Monroe 5th president, dies 1831
but trying to limit the size of this post to 30 points of history on some days is hard
case in point is july 4 after I compiled my list it had to be shrank from over 150 events
and that dose not include important births, deaths, sports or entertainment history