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Daily Calendar for Monday, July 4, 2011 | Almanac.com

Daily Calendar for Monday, July 4, 2011

Born

  • Nathaniel Hawthorne (author) –
  • Stephen Foster (composer) –
  • Henrietta Swan Leavitt (astronomer) –
  • Calvin Coolidge (30th U.S. president) –
  • Reuben Goldberg (cartoonist) –
  • Pauline Friedman Phillips, pen name Abigail Van Buren (Dear Abby advice columnist; twin sister of Ask Ann Landers columnist Esther Friedman Lederer) –
  • Esther Friedman Lederer, pen name Ann Landers (Ask Ann Landers advice columnist; twin sister of Pauline Friedman Phillips, the Dear Abby columnist whose pen name was Abigail Van Buren) –
  • Neil Simon (playwright) –
  • George Steinbrenner (owner of the New York Yankees) –
  • Geraldo Rivera (journalist) –

Died

  • Thomas Jefferson (3rd U.S. president) –
  • John Adams (2nd U.S. president) –
  • James Monroe (5th U.S. president) –
  • Eva Gabor (actress) –
  • Benjamin Davis, Jr. (leader of the Tuskegee Airmen and the first African American general in the Air Force) –
  • Barry White (singer) –
  • Steve McNair (football player) –

Events

  • In Philadelphia, PA, the Continental Congress approved the Declaration of Independence and formed the United States of America–
  • USS Ranger flew a U.S. flag made from gowns–
  • Construction of the Erie Canal began in Rome, New York–
  • Construction of Erie Canal began–
  • The Baltimore & Ohio Railroad began; it was the first public railroad in the U.S.–
  • Henry David Thoreau started his sojourn in the woods at Walden Pond near Concord, Massachusetts–
  • Poet Walt Whitman published the first edition of Leaves of Grass–
  • Lewis Caroll first told Alice Liddell the story of Alice in Wonderland–
  • The Confederates surrendered to Union forces at Vicksburg, Mississippi giving the Union control of the Mississippi River–
  • Lewis Carroll’s Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland was published–
  • Alice Lidell received the first copy of Alice in Wonderland–
  • The Statue of Liberty formally presented to the U.S. by France–
  • The New 50-star flag is flown for the first time–
  • 15-pound 3-ounce American lobster caught, New Jersey–

Weather

  • Thomas Jefferson noted in his β€œWeather Memorandum Book” that the weather was cloudy, the temperature 76 degrees F–
  • Tornadoes hit Washington, D.C., and Baltimore, Maryland, causing minor damage–
  • 103 degrees F, Portland, Maine–
  • 106 degrees F in Nashua, New Hampshire–

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