Historical Events
The following events took place on . The list is arranged in chronological order.
Found 80 events. Showing 31 - 60.
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- American Civil War: The Army of Northern Virginia withdraws from the battlefield after losing the Battle of Gettysburg, signalling an end to the Southern invasion of the North.
- Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland is published.
- Thoroughbred horses Ten Broeck and Mollie McCarty run a match race, recalled in the song Molly and Tenbrooks.
- Anglo-Zulu War: The Zululand capital of Ulundi is captured by British troops and burned to the ground, ending the war and forcing King Cetshwayo to flee.
- In Alabama, the Tuskegee Institute opens.
- The people of France offer the Statue of Liberty to the people of the United States.
- The first scheduled Canadian transcontinental train arrives in Port Moody, British Columbia.
- The founder of Pakistan, Quaid-i-Azam Muhammad Ali Jinnah, joins Sindh-Madrasa-tul-Islam, Karachi.
- Western Samoa changes the International Date Line. Monday, July 4 occurs twice, resulting in a year with 367 days.
- The short-lived Republic of Hawaii is proclaimed by Sanford B. Dole.
- Philippine–American War officially is concluded.
- Dorothy Levitt is reported as the first English woman to compete in a 'motor race'.
- African-American boxer Jack Johnson knocks out white boxer Jim Jeffries in a heavyweight boxing match, sparking race riots across the United States.
- A massive heat wave strikes the northeastern United States, killing 380 people in eleven days and breaking temperature records in several cities.
- President Woodrow Wilson addresses American Civil War veterans at the Great Reunion of 1913.
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- The funeral of Archduke Franz Ferdinand and his wife Sophie takes place in Vienna, six days after their assassinations in Sarajevo.
- Ottoman sultan Mehmed VI ascends to the throne.
- World War I: The Battle of Hamel, a successful attack by the Australian Corps against German positions near the town of Le Hamel on the Western Front.
- Bolsheviks kill Tsar Nicholas II of Russia and his family (Julian calendar date).
- Knoebels Amusement Resort is opened in Elysburg, Pennsylvania.
- First flight of the Lockheed Vega.
- Leo Szilard patents the chain-reaction design for the atomic bomb.
- Lou Gehrig, recently diagnosed with Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, informs a crowd at Yankee Stadium that he considers himself “The luckiest man on the face of the earth”, then announces his retirement from major league baseball.
- Huỳnh Phú Sổ founds Hòa Hảo Buddhism.
- Nazi troops massacre Polish scientists and writers in the captured Ukrainian city of Lviv.
- World War II: The Burning of the Riga synagogues: The Great Choral Synagogue in German occupied Riga is burned with 300 Jews locked in the basement.
- World War II: The 250 day Siege of Sevastopol in the Crimea ends when the city falls to Axis forces.
- World War II: The Battle of Kursk, the largest full-scale battle in history and the world’s largest tank battle, begins in Prokhorovka village.
- World War II: In Gibraltar, a Royal Air Force B-24 Liberator bomber crashes into the sea in an apparent accident moments after takeoff, killing sixteen passengers on board; only the pilot survives.
- The Kielce pogrom against Jewish Holocaust survivors in Poland.
