Public Holidays on July 4

• 🇺🇸 Independence Day

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Religious Observances on July 4

• Islamic: Urs of Shaykh Darwish Muhammad ق

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On This Day in History — July 4

• 2012 — The discovery of particles consistent with the Higgs boson at the Large Hadron Collider is announced at CERN.
• 2009 — The Statue of Liberty's crown reopens to the public after eight years of closure due to security concerns following the September 11 attacks.
• 2009 — The first of four days of bombings begins on the southern Philippine island group of Mindanao.
• 2005 — The Deep Impact collider hits the comet Tempel 1.
• 2004 — The cornerstone of the Freedom Tower is laid on the World Trade Center site in New York City.
• 1998 — Japan launches the Nozomi probe to Mars, joining the United States and Russia as a space exploring nation.

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Notable Births on July 4

• 1993 — Tom Barkhuizen, English footballer
• 1990 — Jake Gardiner, American ice hockey player
• 1990 — Richard Mpong, Ghanaian footballer
• 1990 — Naoki Yamada, Japanese footballer
• 1990 — Ihar Yasinski, Belarusian footballer
• 1989 — Benjamin Büchel, English footballer

Notable Deaths on July 4

• 2015 — Nedelcho Beronov, Bulgarian judge and politician (b. 1928)
• 2015 — William Conrad Gibbons, American historian, author, and academic (b. 1926)
• 2014 — Giorgio Faletti, Italian author, screenwriter, and actor (b. 1950)
• 2014 — C. J. Henderson, American author and critic (b. 1951)
• 2014 — Earl Robinson, American baseball player (b. 1936)
• 2014 — Richard Mellon Scaife, American businessman (b. 1932)

Public Holidays on July 5

• 🌍 Den slovanských věrozvěstů Cyrila a Metoděje (Czech Republic)
• 🌍 Día de la Independencia (Venezuela)
• 🌍 Independence Day (Venezuela)
• 🌍 Saints Cyril and Methodius Day (Czech Republic)

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On This Day in History — July 5

• 2016 — The Juno space probe arrives at Jupiter.
• 2012 — The Shard in London is inaugurated as the tallest building in Europe, with a height of 310 metres (1,020 ft).
• 2009 — A series of violent riots break out in Ürümqi, the capital city of the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region in the People's Republic of China.
• 2009 — The largest hoard of Anglo-Saxon gold ever discovered in England, consisting of more than 1,500 items, is found near the village of Hammerwich, near Lichfield, Staffordshire.
• 2006 — North Korea tests four short-range missiles, one medium-range missile and a long-range Taepodong-2. The long-range Taepodong-2 reportedly fails in mid-air over the Sea of Japan.
• 2004 — The first Indonesian presidential election is held.

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Notable Births on July 5

• 1995 — Baily Cargill, English footballer
• 1995 — Hyuk, South Korean singer and actor (VIXX)
• 1994 — Shohei Otani, Japanese baseball player
• 1993 — Yaroslav Kosov, Russian ice hockey player
• 1992 — Alberto Moreno, Spanish footballer
• 1992 — Chiara Scholl, American tennis player

Notable Deaths on July 5

• 2015 — Yoichiro Nambu, Japanese-American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1921)
• 2015 — Archduchess Dorothea of Austria (b. 1920)
• 2015 — Uffe Haagerup, Danish mathematician and academic (b. 1949)
• 2014 — Rosemary Murphy, American actress (b. 1925)
• 2014 — Volodymyr Sabodan, Ukrainian metropolitan (b. 1935)
• 2014 — Hans-Ulrich Wehler, German historian and academic (b. 1931)