{"id":22826,"date":"2020-07-04T12:00:55","date_gmt":"2020-07-04T06:30:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fundabook.com\/en\/?p=22826"},"modified":"2023-08-09T11:28:11","modified_gmt":"2023-08-09T05:58:11","slug":"history-of-4-july-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fundabook.com\/en\/history-of-4-july-2\/","title":{"rendered":"History of 4 July"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>History of 4 July<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>1997<\/strong> &#8211; The\u00a0<em>Mars Pathfinder<\/em>, an unmanned spacecraft, landed on Mars. A rover named Sojourner was deployed to gather data about the surface of the planet.<\/li>\n<li><strong>1997<\/strong> &#8211; Ferry service between Manhattan and Staten Island was made free of charge. Previously, the charge had ranged from 5 cents to 50 cents.<\/li>\n<li><strong>2004<\/strong> &#8211; In New York, the cornerstone of the Freedom Tower (One World Trade Center) was laid on the former World Trade Center site.<\/li>\n<li><strong>2005<\/strong> &#8211; NASA&#8217;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 buidling blocks of the solar system. The Deep Impact mission launched on January 12, 2005.<\/li>\n<li><strong>2009<\/strong> &#8211; North Korea launched seven ballistic missiles into waters off its east coast that defied U.N. resolutions.<\/li>\n<li><strong>2009<\/strong> &#8211; The Statue of Liberty&#8217;s crown reopened to visitors. It had been closed to the public since 2001.<\/li>\n<li><strong>2012<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013 The discovery of particles consistent with the\u00a0Higgs boson\u00a0at the\u00a0Large Hadron Collider\u00a0is announced at\u00a0CERN.<\/li>\n<li><strong>2015<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013 Chile claims its first title in international soccer by defeating Argentina in the\u00a02015 Copa Am\u00e9rica\u00a0Final.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Celebrating Birthday Today<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>1981<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Ded\u00e9, Angolan footballer<\/li>\n<li><strong>1981<\/strong> \u2013\u00a0Brock Berlin, American football player<\/li>\n<li><strong>1981<\/strong> \u2013\u00a0Christoph Preu\u00df, German footballer<\/li>\n<li><strong>1981<\/strong> \u2013\u00a0Francisco Cruceta, Dominican baseball player<\/li>\n<li><strong>1981<\/strong> \u2013\u00a0Will Smith, American football player (d. 2016)<\/li>\n<li><strong>1982<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Vladimir Boisa, Georgian basketball player<\/li>\n<li><strong>1982<\/strong> \u2013\u00a0Vladimir Gusev, Russian cyclist<\/li>\n<li><strong>1982<\/strong> \u2013\u00a0Jeff Lima, New Zealand rugby league player<\/li>\n<li><strong>1982<\/strong> \u2013\u00a0Michael &#8220;The Situation&#8221; Sorrentino, American model, author and television personality<\/li>\n<li><strong>1983<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Melanie Fiona, Canadian singer-songwriter<\/li>\n<li><strong>1983<\/strong> \u2013\u00a0Amantle Montsho, Botswanan sprinter<\/li>\n<li><strong>1983<\/strong> \u2013\u00a0Miguel Pinto, Chilean footballer<\/li>\n<li><strong>1983<\/strong> \u2013\u00a0Amol Rajan, Indian-English journalist<\/li>\n<li><strong>1983<\/strong> \u2013\u00a0Mattia Serafini, Italian footballer<\/li>\n<li><strong>1984<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Jin Akanishi, Japanese singer-songwriter<\/li>\n<li><strong>1984<\/strong> \u2013\u00a0Miguel Santos Soares, Timorese footballer<\/li>\n<li><strong>1985<\/strong> \u2013\u00a0Kane Tenace, Australian footballer<\/li>\n<li><strong>1985<\/strong> \u2013\u00a0Dimitrios Mavroeidis, Greek basketball player<\/li>\n<li><strong>1985<\/strong> \u2013\u00a0Wason Renter\u00eda, Colombian footballer<\/li>\n<li><strong>1986<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013\u00a0\u00d6mer A\u015f\u0131k, Turkish basketball player<\/li>\n<li><strong>1986<\/strong> \u2013\u00a0Nguyen Ngoc Duy, Vietnamese footballer<\/li>\n<li><strong>1986<\/strong> \u2013\u00a0Rafael Ar\u00e9valo, Salvadoran tennis player<\/li>\n<li><strong>1986<\/strong> \u2013\u00a0Willem Janssen, Dutch footballer<\/li>\n<li><strong>1986<\/strong> \u2013\u00a0Terrance Knighton, American football player<\/li>\n<li><strong>1986<\/strong> \u2013\u00a0Marte Elden, Norwegian skier<\/li>\n<li><strong>1987<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Wude Ayalew, Ethiopian runner<\/li>\n<li><strong>1987<\/strong> \u2013\u00a0Guram Kashia, Georgian footballer<\/li>\n<li><strong>1988<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Angelique Boyer, French-Mexican actress<\/li>\n<li><strong>1989<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Benjamin B\u00fcchel, Liechtenstein footballer<\/li>\n<li><strong>1990<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Jake Gardiner, American ice hockey player<\/li>\n<li><strong>1990<\/strong> \u2013\u00a0Richard Mpong, Ghanaian footballer<\/li>\n<li><strong>1990<\/strong> \u2013\u00a0Naoki Yamada, Japanese footballer<\/li>\n<li><strong>1990<\/strong> \u2013\u00a0Ihar Yasinski, Belarusian footballer<\/li>\n<li><strong>1992<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013\u00a0\u00c1ngel Romero, Paraguayan footballer<\/li>\n<li><strong>1992<\/strong> \u2013\u00a0\u00d3scar Romero, Paraguayan footballer<\/li>\n<li><strong>1993<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Tom Barkhuizen, English footballer<\/li>\n<li><strong>1995<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Post Malone, American singer, rapper, songwriter and record producer<\/li>\n<li><strong>1999<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Moa Kikuchi, Japanese musician<\/li>\n<li><strong>2003<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Polina Bogusevich, Russian singer<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>History of 4 July 1997 &#8211; The\u00a0Mars Pathfinder, an unmanned spacecraft, landed on Mars. A rover named Sojourner was deployed to gather data about the surface of the planet. 1997 &#8211; Ferry service between Manhattan and Staten Island was made free of charge. 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