1901<\/strong> – William H. Taft became the American governor of the Philippines.<\/p>\n 1910<\/strong> – Race riots broke out all over the United States after African-American Jack Johnson knocked out Jim Jeffries in a heavyweight boxing match.<\/p>\n 1934<\/strong> – Boxer Joe Louis won his first professional fight.<\/p>\n 1934<\/strong> – At Mount Rushmore, George Washington’s face was dedicated.<\/p>\n 1939<\/strong> – Lou Gehrig retired from major league baseball.<\/p>\n 1946<\/strong> – The Philippines achieved full independence for the first time in over four hundred years.<\/p>\n 1955<\/strong> – The first king cobra snakes born in captivity in the U.S. hatched at the Bronx Zoo in New York City.<\/p>\n 1957<\/strong> – The U.S. Postal Service issued the 4\u00a2 Flag stamp.<\/p>\n 1959<\/strong> – The 49-star U.S. flag became official.<\/p>\n 1960<\/strong> – The 50-star U.S. flag made its debut in Philadelphia, PA.<\/p>\n 1966<\/strong> – U.S. President Johnson signed the Freedom of Information Act, which went into effect the following year.<\/p>\n 1976<\/strong> – The U.S. celebrated its Bicentennial.<\/p>\n 1982<\/strong> – The Soviets performed a nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh Semipalitinsk.<\/p>\n 1987<\/strong> – Klaus Barbie, the former Gestapo chief known as the “Butcher of Lyon,” was convicted by a French court of crimes against humanity and sentenced to life in prison.<\/p>\n 1997<\/strong> – The Mars Pathfinder<\/i>, an unmanned spacecraft, landed on Mars. A rover named Sojourner was deployed to gather data about the surface of the planet.<\/p>\n 1997<\/strong> – Ferry service between Manhattan and Staten Island was made free of charge. Previously, the charge had ranged from 5 cents to 50 cents.<\/p>\n 2004<\/strong> – In New York, the cornerstone of the Freedom Tower (One World Trade Center) was laid on the former World Trade Center site.<\/p>\n 2005<\/strong> – NASA’s Deep Impact spacecraft took pictures as a space probe smashed into the Tempel 1 comet. The mission was aimed at learning more about comets that formed from the leftover building blocks of the solar system. The Deep Impact mission launched on January 12, 2005.<\/p>\n 2009<\/strong> – North Korea launched seven ballistic missiles into waters off its east coast that defied U.N. resolutions.<\/p>\n 2009<\/strong> – The Statue of Liberty’s crown reopened to visitors. It had been closed to the public since 2001.<\/p>\n 2012<\/strong> \u2013 The discovery of particles consistent with the Higgs boson at the Large Hadron Collider is announced at CERN.<\/p>\n 2015<\/strong> \u2013 Chile claims its first title in international soccer by defeating Argentina in the 2015 Copa Am\u00e9rica Final.<\/p>\n History of 4 July 1901 – William H. 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