Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/July 4
July 4: Independence Day in the United States; 200th Anniversary of the birth of Giuseppe Garibaldi (b. 1807); Filipino-American Friendship Day in the Philippines
- 993 – Pope John XV became the first pope to canonize a saint, Ulrich of Augsburg.
- 1776 – The Continental Congress of the Thirteen Colonies in British North America approved a Declaration of Independence.
- 1862 – In a rowing boat travelling on the River Thames from Oxford to Godstow, Lewis Carroll told Alice Liddell and her sisters a story that would eventually form the basis for his children's book Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (illustration of Alice pictured), first published exactly three years later.
- 1939 – Baseball player Lou Gehrig, having recently been diagnosed with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, officially announced his retirement at a ceremony at New York City's Yankee Stadium.
- 1941 – German AB Action operation in Poland: After capturing Lwów, the Nazis executed approximately 45 professors of the University of Lwów.