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Independence Day

Today is the 2nd day of the 27th week, the 4th day of the 7th month, the 186th day of 2016 [with only 173 shopping days left until Christmas], and 

  • Alice in Wonderland Day -- in 1862 Lewis Carroll tells Alice Liddell a story that would grow into the book and its sequels.
  • Boom Box Parade Day
  • Earth at Aphelion
  • Fourth of July or Independence Day in the US
  • Independence From Meat Day
  • Indivisible Day
  • Invisible Day
  • National Barbecue Day
  • National Barbecued Spareribs Day
  • National Caesar Salad Day
  • National Country Music Day
  • Sidewalk Egg Frying Day
  • The first evening of Dree Festival, celebrated until July 7 (Apatani people, Arunachal Pradesh, India)
  • Trivia:  three US ex-presidents died on this day:  In 1826 the 2nd and 3rd presidents -- John Adams at age 90 in Braintree and Thomas Jefferson at age 83 at Monticello in Charlottesville; in 1831 James Monroe, the 5th president at age 73 in New York City. 

  • NOTE for those who like long weekends:  This date is slightly more likely to fall on a Monday, Wednesday or Saturday (58 in 400 years each) than on Thursday or Friday (57), and slightly less likely to occur on a Tuesday or Sunday (56)

     
In 362 BC at the Battle of Mantinea the Thebans, led by Epaminondas, defeated the Spartans.  In 993 Ulrich of Augsburg was canonized as a saint.  In 1054 a supernova, called SN 1054 and near the star Zeta Tauri, was seen by Chinese Song dynasty, Arab, and possibly American Indian observers -- for several months it remains bright enough to be seen during the day and its remnants form the Crab Nebula.  In 1886 the people of France offered the Statue of Liberty to the people of the United States.  In 1892 Western Samoa changed the International Date Line and Monday, July 4 occurs twice, resulting in a year with 367 days.  In 1934 Leo Szilard, Jewish Hungarian-born physicist and inventor, patented the chain-reaction design for the atomic bomb.  In 1939 Huỳnh Phú Sổ founded Hòa Hảo Buddhism. In 1946, after 381 years of near-continuous colonial rule by various powers, the Philippines attained full independence from the United States.  In 1951 William Shockley announced the invention of the junction transistor.  In 2012 the discovery of particles consistent with the Higgs boson at the Large Hadron Collider was announced at CERN. 




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