- the Fourth of July is celebrated in the United States of America as Independence Day (in 1776 the Second Continental Congress in Philadelphia adopted the Declaration of Independence that proclaimed independence of American colonies from England).
- Remembrance Day of those who fell in the WWII Battle of Sevastopol (the Black Sea base of the Soviet and Russian Navy in the Crimea). The day was officially established in 1999 on the first Sunday of July.
- Medic Day in Kyrgyzstan officially established on the first Sunday of July.
- on July 4, 1934 - 70 years ago - Marie Sklodowska Curie died. Marie Sklodowska Curie, born 1867, was an outstanding physicist and mathematician, a founder of radioactivity research. She introduced the term 'radioactivity,' discovered a number of radioactive elements, and was the first to apply radioactivity in medicine. Marie Sklodowska Curie won Nobel Prize in Physics in 1903 and Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1911.
- on July 4, 1934 - 70 years ago, Hayyim Nahman Byalik, born 1837, a greatest Hebrew poet, died. Byalik wrote lyrics, landscape, and romance poems. He is famous for his poems Glitter, The Pond, The Scroll of Fire, The Dead of the Desert, and The Tale of the Massacre.
- on July 4, 1997 - seven years ago - the American spacecraft Mars Pathfinder landed upon Mars to deliver the first Mars rover Sojourner.
RUSSIA:
- Russian Naval Aviation Day (on July 4, 1916 over the Baltic Sea Russia's naval aircraft won their first dogfight).
- All-Russian Lermontov Poetry Day (established annually for the first Sunday of July at the Lermontov Museum in Tarkhany). Mikhail Lermontov (1814-1841) was an outstanding and most promising Russian poet.
- On July 4, 1946 - 58 years ago - the Koenigsberg Region (formerly German province of East Prussia, capital Koenigsberg, transferred to the USSR after the WWII) was renamed Kaliningrad region (the Koenigsberg Region was established by a decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Council of the USSR in the same year on April 7).
- On July 4, 1957 - 47 years ago - the Il-18 (Coot) turbofan passenger plane made its maiden flight.
- On July 4, 1961 - 43 years ago - 10 crewmen were killed in an emergency onboard the K-19 Soviet nuclear-powered submarine with ballistic missiles at a depth of 180 m.
- On July 4, 1964 - 40 years ago - Samuil Marshak (born 1887) died. Marshak was a poet, who also translated Robert Burns, William Shakespeare, William Blake, Rudyard Kipling, and others. He has been considered to be a classical author of juvenile literature.
- on July 4, 1980 - 24 years ago - a Gagarin Monument to the first Earth's cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin was opened in Moscow.
- on July 4, 1991 - 13 years ago - the housing privatization law in Russia was adopted. Under this law, citizens had a right to register their ownership of state and municipal flats they were living in.
