This Day In History.

July   4
1990 --  France performs nuclear test at Muruora Island

1982 --  USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR

1971 --  France performs nuclear test at Muruora Island

1969 --  USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR

1966 --  LBJ signs Freedom of Information Act

1966 --  Beatles attacked in Philippines after insulting Imelda Marcos

1960 --  America's new 50-star flag honoring Hawaiian statehood unfurled

1959 --  America's new 49-star flag honoring Alaska statehood unfurled

1956 --  Independence National Historical Park forms in Philadelphia

1950 --  Truman signs public law 600 (Puerto Ricans write own constitution)

1946 --  Anti Jewish riots in Kielce Poland, 42 die

1946 --  Philippines gains independence from US

1944 --  1,100 US guns fire 4th of July salute at German lines in Normandy

1944 --  1st Japanese kamikaze attack, US fleet near Iwo Jima

1944 --  Gestapo arrests German Social Democrat Julius Leber

1944 --  Allied assault on Carpiquet airport at Caen

1942 --  US air offensive against nazi-Germany begins

1942 --  1st American bombing mission over enemy-occupied Europe (WW II)

1940 --  German occupiers forbids anti-nazis speeches

1940 --  British destroys French battle fleet at Oran, Algeria, 1267 die

1903 --  Pacific Cable (SF, Hawaii, Guam, Phil) opens, Pres TR sends message

1898 --  US flag hoisted over Wake Island (Spanish-American War)

1894 --  Republic of Hawaii proclaimed, Sanford B Dole as president

1884 --  Statue of Liberty presented to US in Paris

1883 --  Buffalo Bill Cody presents 1st wild west show, North Platte, Nebr

1882 --  Telegraph Hill Observatory opens in SF

1881 --  Booker T Washington establishes Tuskegee Institute (Alabama)

1875 --  White Democrats kill several blacks in terrorist attacks in Vicksburg

1874 --  Social Democratic Workmen's Party of North America formed

1863 --  Vicksburg, Mississippi surrenders to Union forces

1863 --  Skirmish at Smithburg, TN

1863 --  General Lee's army withdraws from Gettysburg

1863 --  Failed Confederate assault on Helena Arkansas (640 casualties)

1863 --  Boise, Idaho founded (now capital of Idaho)

1862 --  Battle of Port Royal, SC (Port Royal Ferry)

1862 --  Lewis Carroll creates Alice in Wonderland for Alice P Liddell

1862 --  Battle at Green River Ky (Morgan's Ohio Raid)

1861 --  Skirmish at Harper's Ferry, WV

1861 --  In a special session of 27th Congress Lincoln requests 400,000 troops

1845 --  Henry David Thoreau moves into his shack on Walden Pond

1845 --  Texas Congress votes for annexation to US

1836 --  Wisconsin Territory forms

1831 --  "America (My Country 'Tis of Thee)" is 1st sung in Boston

1829 --  Cornerstone laid for 1st US mint (Chestnut & Juniper St, Phila)

1828 --  Construction begins on B & O (Baltimore-Ohio) 1st US passenger RR

1827 --  Slavery abolished in NY

1802 --  US Military Academy officially opens (West Point, NY)

1796 --  1st Independence Day celebration is held

1789 --  1st US tariff act

1779 --  French fleet occupies Grenada

1776 --  Declaration of Independence-US gains independence from Britain