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July 2nd

626 Incident at Xuanwu Gate: in fear of assassination, Li Shimin ambushes and kills his rival brothers Li Yuanji and Li Jiancheng

1776 Continental Congress resolves “these United Colonies are and of right ought to be Free and Independent States”

1823 Bahia Independence Day: the end of Portuguese rule in Brazil, with the final defeat of the Portuguese crown loyalists in the province of Bahia

1964 US President Lyndon B. Johnson signs Civil Rights Act and Voting Rights Act into law

1990 1,426 pilgrims trampled to death after a panic in a tunnel in Mecca, Saudi Arabia

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Slaves aboard a Spanish schooner La Amistad revolt to secure their freedom while being transported from one Cuban port to another

Today in History in 1839

 

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French frigate “La Méduse” runs aground under incompetent leadership of Viscount of Chaumareys, 400 passengers evacuated. 150 men, 1 woman are left on “la Machine,” a poorly provisioned raft. 13 days later only 15 survivors remain, inspires Théodore Géricault‘s painting “The Raft of the Medusa”

Today in History in 1816

 

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July 3rd

324 Battle of Adrianople: Roman Emperor Constantine I defeats his co-emperor Licinius, who flees to Byzantium

1187 Battle of Horns of Hattin: Saladin, Sultan of Egypt and Syria, destroys Jerusalem’s crusader army

1863 Battle of Gettysburg, largest battle ever fought on the American continent, ends in a major victory for the Union during the US Civil War

1884 Dow Jones publishes its 1st stock index, the Dow Jones Transportation Average

1996 UK House of Commons announces that the Stone of Scone, aka the Stone of Destiny, used in the coronation of Scottish (and subsequently English and British monarchs), will be returned to Scotland after 700 years in Westminster Abbey

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Intergovernmental Conference on Identity Certificates for Russian Refugees, convened by Fridtjof Nansen in Geneva, creates the Nansen passports (for stateless persons)

Today in History in 1922

 

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Common tern banded in Maine; found dead in 1919 in Africa (1st bird known to have crossed the Atlantic)

Today in History in 1913

 

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Diogo Jota, Liverpool and Portugal footballer, dies aged 28 in car crash

The Guardian (@theguardian.com) 2025-07-03T08:53:09Z

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Diogo Jota, Liverpool and Portugal footballer, dies aged 28 in car crash

The Guardian (@theguardian.com) 2025-07-03T08:53:09Z

A tragedy for a young man with a young family. Only married a couple of weeks ago. RIP

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July 4th

1776 US Congress proclaims the Declaration of Independence and independence from Great Britain

1785 James Hutton, geologist, publicly reads an abstract of his theory of uniformitarianism for the first time at the meeting of the Royal Society of Edinburgh

1803 The Louisiana Purchase is announced to the American people by President Thomas Jefferson

1838 Huskar Colliery Mining Disaster in Silkstone England: mining pit floods drown 26 children, leads to 1842 ‘Mines and Collieries Act’ bans women and children working underground

1934 Hungarian physicist Leo Szilard patents the chain-reaction design for the atomic bomb

2017 North Korea tests first successful intercontinental ballistic missile into Sea of Japan

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Howard Florey and Norman Heatley meet for 1st time, 11 days later they successfully recreate penicillin

Today in History in 1941

 

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Western Samoa changes the International Date Line, so that year there were 367 days in this country, with two occurrences of Monday, July 4

Today in History in 1892

 

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