Daily Calendar for Wednesday, July 4, 2029
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Wednesday, July 4, 2029
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 (businessman, former owner of the New York Yankees) –
- Geraldo Rivera (journalist) –
- Post Malone (singer) –
Died
- John Adams (2nd U.S. president) –
- Thomas Jefferson (3rd 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 Erie Canal began –
- Construction of the Erie Canal began in Rome, New York –
- 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 “Weather Memorandum Book” that the weather was cloudy, the temperature 76 degrees F –
- Tornadoes hit Washington, D.C., and Baltimore, Maryland, causing minor damage –
- 106 degrees F in Nashua, New Hampshire –
- 103 degrees F, Portland, Maine –
