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The following events took place on July 4. The list is arranged in chronological order.

Found 80 events. Showing 61 - 80.

• 1946

  After 381 years of near-continuous colonial rule by various powers, the Philippines attains full independence from the United States.
• 1947

  The “Indian Independence Bill” is presented before the British House of Commons, proposing the independence of the Provinces of British India into two sovereign countries: India and Pakistan.
• 1950

  Radio Free Europe first broadcasts.
• 1951

  A court in Czechoslovakia sentences American journalist William N. Oatis to ten years in prison on charges of espionage.
• 1951

  William Shockley announces the invention of the junction transistor.
• 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, almost ten and a half months later (see Flag Act).
• 1966

  U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson signs the Freedom of Information Act into United States law. The act went into effect the next year.
• 1976

  Israeli commandos raid Entebbe airport in Uganda, rescuing all but four of the passengers and crew of an Air France jetliner seized by Palestinian terrorists.
• 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

  Four Iranian diplomats are abducted by Lebanese militia in Lebanon.
• 1987

  In France, former Gestapo chief Klaus Barbie (a.k.a. the “Butcher of Lyon”) is convicted of crimes against humanity and sentenced to life imprisonment.
• 1994

  Rwandan Genocide: Kigali, the Rwandan capital, is captured by the Rwandan Patriotic Front, ending the genocide in the city.
• 1997

  NASA’s Pathfinder space probe lands on the surface of Mars.
• 1998

  Japan launches the Nozomi probe to Mars, joining the United States and Russia as a space exploring nation.
• 2004

  The cornerstone of the Freedom Tower is laid on the World Trade Center site in New York City.
• 2005

  The Deep Impact collider hits the comet Tempel 1.
• 2009

  The Statue of Liberty’s crown reopens to the public after eight years of closure due to security concerns following the September 11 attacks.
• 2009

  The first of four days of bombings begins on the southern Philippine island group of Mindanao.
• 2012

  The discovery of particles consistent with the Higgs boson at the Large Hadron Collider is announced at CERN.
• 2015

  Tupou VI is officially crowned as the King of Tonga.

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