Browse events, births, deaths and holidays on July 4 throughout history.
On July 4, 2025, destructive and deadly flooding took place in the Hill Country region of the U.S. state of Texas. During the flooding, water levels along the Guadalupe River rose…
A devastating flood strikes the Texas Hill Country, killing at least 108 people.
The Oasis Live '25 Tour was a concert tour by the English rock band Oasis. It began on 4 July 2025 at the Principality Stadium in Cardiff, Wales, and concluded on 23 November at E…
The Oasis Live '25 tour began in Principality Stadium, Cardiff, ending a 16 year hiatus.
The Labour Party, commonly Labour, is a political party in the United Kingdom. It sits on the centre-left of the left–right political spectrum, and has been described as an allian…
The Labour Party, led by Keir Starmer, wins a landslide majority in the 2024 United Kingdom general election, ending…
Association football, more commonly known as simply football or soccer, is a team sport played between two teams of 11 players who almost exclusively use their feet to propel a ba…
Chile claims its first title in international football by defeating Argentina in the 2015 Copa América Final.
The Higgs boson, sometimes called the Higgs particle, is an elementary particle in the Standard Model of particle physics produced by the quantum excitation of the Higgs field, on…
The discovery of particles consistent with the Higgs boson at the Large Hadron Collider is announced at CERN.
The Statue of Liberty is a colossal neoclassical sculpture of a robed and crowned woman on Liberty Island, part of New York City, in New York Harbor. The copper-clad statue, a gif…
The Statue of Liberty's crown reopens to the public after eight years of closure due to security concerns following…
The Mindanao bombings was a series of seemingly unrelated bomb attacks that took place on July 4, 5, and 7, 2009 in the towns of Datu Piang and Jolo, and the cities of Cotabato an…
The first of four days of bombings begins on the southern Philippine island group of Mindanao.
The 2008 Minsk bombing took place just after midnight on 4 July 2008, in Minsk, Belarus and wounded 54 people. The explosion happened near the Hero City monument at a concert to c…
A bomb explodes at a concert in Minsk's Independence Square, injuring 50 people.
The Space Shuttle program was the fourth human spaceflight program carried out by the U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), which accomplished routine transpo…
Space Shuttle program: Discovery launches STS-121 to the International Space Station. The event gained wide media…
Deep Impact was a NASA space probe launched from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station on January 12, 2005. It was designed to study the interior composition of the comet Tempel 1 (9P/…
The Deep Impact collider hits the comet Tempel 1.
One World Trade Center, also known as One WTC and the Freedom Tower, is the main building of the rebuilt World Trade Center complex in Lower Manhattan, New York City. Designed by …
The cornerstone of the Freedom Tower is laid on the World Trade Center site in New York City.
The Greece national football team represents Greece in men's international football matches, and is controlled by the Hellenic Football Federation, the governing body for football…
Greece beats Portugal in the UEFA Euro 2004 Final and becomes European Champion for first time in its history.
The Boeing 707 is an early American long-range narrow-body airliner, the first jetliner developed and produced by Boeing Commercial Airplanes. Developed from the Boeing 367-80 pr…
A Boeing 707 crashes near Bangui M'Poko International Airport in Bangui, Central African Republic, killing 28.
Vladivostok Air Flight 352 was a scheduled passenger flight from Yekaterinburg, Russia to Vladivostok via Irkutsk. On 4 July 2001, the aircraft operating the flight, a Tupolev Tu-…
Vladivostok Air Flight 352 crashes on approach to Irkutsk Airport killing all 145 people on board.
Nozomi was a Japanese Mars orbiter that failed to reach Mars due to electrical failure. It was constructed by the Institute of Space and Astronautical Science, University of Toky…
Japan launches the Nozomi probe to Mars, joining the United States and Russia as a space exploring nation.
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration is an independent agency of the U.S. federal government responsible for the United States' civil space program and for research i…
NASA's Pathfinder space probe lands on the surface of Mars.
The Rwandan genocide, also known as the Tutsi genocide, occurred from 7 April to 19 July 1994 during the Rwandan Civil War. Over a span of around 100 days, members of the Tutsi et…
Rwandan genocide: Kigali, the Rwandan capital, is captured by the Rwandan Patriotic Front, ending the genocide in the…
Three Iranian diplomats as well as a reporter for Islamic Republic News Agency (IRNA) were abducted in Lebanon on 4 July 1982. None of them have been seen since. The missing indiv…
Three Iranian diplomats and a journalist are kidnapped in Lebanon by Phalange forces, and their fate remains unknown.
The Space Shuttle program was the fourth human spaceflight program carried out by the U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), which accomplished routine transpo…
Space Shuttle program: Columbia lands at Edwards Air Force Base at the end of the program's final test flight, STS-4.…
The George Jackson Brigade, or GJB, was a militant group founded in the mid-1970s, based in Seattle, Washington, and named after George Jackson, a dissident prisoner and Black Pan…
The George Jackson Brigade plants a bomb at the main power substation for the Washington state capitol in Olympia, in…