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Events on July 4

• 1776 The Second Continental Congress adopts the Declaration of Independence of the United States.
• 1865 Lewis Carroll's children's book Alice in Wonderland is first published in print. A second edition follows in December.
• 1926 The first NSDAP Party Congress takes place in Weimar and the Hitler Youth is founded.
• 1939 In the German Reich, the discrimination against Jews continues with the creation of the Reich Association of Jews in Germany.
• 1954 The first title win of a German national team at the fifth Football World Cup in Switzerland in the Bern Wankdorf Stadium by a 3:2 against Hungary is considered the 'Miracle of Bern'.
• 1991 In the last episode of the German TV show Total Normal, the sketch Hurz! by Hape Kerkeling and Achim Hagemann is broadcast.
• 1999 Two grave robbers find the Nebra Sky Disc, which is considered the world's oldest concrete depiction of the heavens.
• 2004 At Ground Zero, the former site of the World Trade Center in New York, the cornerstone for One World Trade Center is laid. However, construction does not begin until 2006.
• 2006 The German national football team loses the semi-final match against Italy at the 2006 World Cup, thus ending the so-called summer fairy tale.
• 2010 In a referendum in Bavaria, 61% of voters vote for the 'Non-Smoker Protection' referendum in Bavaria. This makes Bavaria a pioneer in the field of smoking ban.
• 2012 The CMS and ATLAS experiments at the European nuclear research center CERN announce the discovery of the Higgs boson.
• 2017 The SPD politician Manuela Schwesig is elected the first Minister-President of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern.

Born on July 4

• 1872 Calvin Coolidge, American politician
• 1890 Otto Feick, Inventor of the Rhönrad
• 1902 Meyer Lansky, American mobster
• 1910 Gloria Stuart, American actress
• 1941 Eckart Witzigmann, German star chef
• 1960 Roland Ratzenberger, Austrian racing driver
• 1961 Wolf Bachofner, Austrian actor
• 1980 Alpa Gun, German rapper
• 1981 Christoph Preuß, German football player
• 1990 David Kross, German actor

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Source of events and birthdays: German Wikipedia article „4. Juli“, licence CC BY-SA 4.0, selected, shortened and translated by Birthday Paper.

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