France presents Statue of Liberty to United States (1884), and Jinnah joins Sindh Madrasa-tul-Islam in Karachi (1887). Born on this day: Calvin Coolidge, Giuseppe Garibaldi and Nathaniel Hawthorne. Died: Marie Curie, Thomas Jefferson and John Adams.
34 events, 60 births and 64 deaths on this date.
France handed over its copper statue, designed by Frédéric Bartholdi with an Eiffel framework, to the United States. Meant to mark American independence and the end of slavery, it would later stand on Liberty Island.
Christian David · CC BY-SA 4.0Muhammad Ali Jinnah, later the founder of Pakistan, enrolled at the Sindh Madrasa-tul-Islam in Karachi that day. The school was one of the earliest places where the future statesman received formal education in the city.
After more than three centuries under Spain and then decades of American control, the Philippines became a fully independent republic on this day. The break ended a long colonial story and set the country on its own course as a sovereign nation.
To move closer to its trading partners on the other side of the date line, Samoa dropped a whole day from the calendar. Monday 4 July was then repeated, so that year ran to 367 days.
The Tuskegee Institute opened in Alabama as a school for training Black teachers, one of the first of its kind in the South. It later became a leading centre for education, and its name is tied to the Tuskegee Airmen of the Second World War.
Lewis Carroll, rowing with Alice Liddell and her sisters, spun out a tale that would later grow into Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. The boat trip ran from Oxford up to Godstow, on the river the Thames becomes there.
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Calvin Coolidge, born on this day in 1872, became the 30th US president after a career in Massachusetts politics. He earned the nickname "Silent Cal" for his taciturn manner and dry humour, and his presidency spanned the booming Roaring Twenties.
Harris & Ewing · Public domain
Giuseppe Garibaldi was an Italian general and republican who fought for Italian unification, earning the nickname Hero of the Two Worlds for his campaigns in South America and Europe. He is counted among the fathers of the Italian fatherland.
In album: Cartes-de-visite portraits of U.S. Army officers, children, and others, p. 15, right. · Public domain
Best known for The Scarlet Letter, a novel about guilt and sin in Puritan New England. He also wrote short stories and, after a political appointment, served as consul in Europe.
Mathew Benjamin Brady · Public domain
Polish-born physicist and chemist who won two Nobel Prizes, in physics and in chemistry, the only person to win in two different sciences. She coined the term radioactivity and pioneered its use against cancer.
Unknown author Unknown author · Public domain
Jefferson, the third US president, died on the fiftieth anniversary of the Declaration of Independence, which he drafted largely by himself in 1776. He is remembered as a leading voice for individual liberty, though he also owned enslaved people throughout his life.
Rembrandt Peale · Public domain
John Adams was the second president of the United States and a key voice for independence in the Continental Congress. He is also remembered as a lawyer who defended British soldiers over the Boston Massacre and as a leading author of the Declaration of Independence.
Gilbert Stuart · Public domain
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