Historical Events on July 4 (Part 2)

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• 1974 Mike Marshall goes 9-0 with 3 saves in 20 appearances in 30 days

• 1976 Israel launches hostage rescue mission of 106 Air France crew and passengers held at Entebbe Airport in Uganda by pro-Palestinian hijackers. Three hostages die along with all the hijackers, numerous Ugandan soldiers and Yonatan Netanyahu, an Israeli soldier
• 1976 Opening ceremony of the Dai Bosatsu monastery Catskill Mt NY
• 1977 Nigel Harrison replaces Gary Valentine as bassist of Blondie
• 1977 Red Sox end 9-game losing streak by smashing a MLB-record 8 HRs in a 9-6 win vs Toronto at Fenway Park
• 1978 Memphis fire fighters halt 3-day strike under a court order
• 1979 Algerian ex-president Ben Bella freed

• 1980 Wimbledon Women's Tennis: Australian Evonne Goolagong Cawley beats Chris Evert 6-1, 7-6 for her 3rd Wimbledon singles crown

• 1982 4th NASA Space Shuttle Mission: Columbia 4 (STS-4) lands at Edwards AFB

• 1982 Miguel de la Madrid Hurtado elected president of Mexico
• 1982 USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
• 1982 Wimbledon Men's Tennis: In an all-American classic final, Jimmy Connors beats John McEnroe 3-6, 6-3, 6-7, 7-6, 6-4 for his second and final Wimbledon title

• 1984 Funeral for S Nakagawa and burial of half his ashes next to N Senzaki

• 1986 England cricket captain Mike Gatting smashes 183 not out in the drawn 3rd Test vs India at Birmingham

• 1987 Discovery moves to Launch Pad 39B for STS-26 mission

• 1987 Wimbledon Women's Tennis: Martina Navratilova earns 8th Wimbledon singles title with a 7-5, 6-3 win over Steffi Graf

• 1988 US Navy shoots down Iranian civilian jetliner over Gulf, kills 290
• 1988 Wimbledon Men's Tennis: Stefan Edberg of Sweden wins his first of 2 Wimbledon singles titles beating Boris Becker 4-6, 7-6, 6-4, 6-2 in a rain-affected final

• 1989 Unmanned Russian Mig-23 crashes in Bellegem-Kooigem, Belgium (1 dies)
• 1990 2 Live Crew release "Banned in the USA" the lyrics quote Star Spangled Banner and Gettysburg Address
• 1990 400 New Kids on the Block fans treated for heat exhaustion in Minnesota
• 1990 France performs nuclear test at Mururoa atoll
• 1991 24th San Diego Comic-Con International opens at Pan Pacific Hotel
• 1992 John Phillips, rocker (Mamas & Papas), undergoes a liver transplant
• 1992 Wimbledon Women's Tennis: Steffi Graf wins her 4th of 7 Wimbledon singles titles outclassing Monica Seles 6-2, 6-1
• 1993 Pilar Fort crowned 25th Miss Black America
• 1993 Pizza Hut blimp deflates and lands safely on W 56th street in NYC
• 1993 Wimbledon Men's Tennis: Pete Sampras beats fellow American Jim Courier 7-6, 7-6, 3-6, 6-3 for his first of 7 Wimbledon titles
• 1994 FIFA World Cup: A Bebeto strike saves Brazil from embarrassment, beat USA 1-0 at Stanford
• 1994 Rwandese Patriotic Front occupies Kigali
• 1995 Birmingham Barracudas (based in Alabama) play 1st CFL game beating Winnipeg 38-10 but failed experiment only lasts one season
• 1996 29th San Diego Comic-Con International opens at San Diego Convention Center
• 1996 Hot Mail, a free internet E-mail service begins
• 1997 US space probe Pathfinder lands on Ares Vallis Mars
• 1998 Wimbledon Women's Tennis: Czech Jana Novotná beats Nathalie Tauziat of France 6-4, 7-6 for her first and only Grand Slam singles title

• 1999 Wimbledon Men's Tennis: In an all-American final, Pete Sampras beats Andre Agassi 6-3, 6-4, 7-5 for his third straight Wimbledon title
• 2000 Canadian jockey Russell Baze scores his 7,000th career victory aboard This Is the Moment at the Alameda County Fair in Pleasanton, California
• 2001 In a world record fee for a soccer goalkeeper, Juventus signed Parma's Gianluigi Buffon in a £32.5m deal including midfielder Jonathan Bachini
• 2002 Early morning house fire claims lives of 3 children and 3 firefighters in Gloucester City, New Jersey; careless cigarette smoking the likely cause

• 2004 The cornerstone of the Freedom Tower is laid on the site of the World Trade Center in New York City. (This was largely a symbolic event; actual construction would not start for several weeks)
• 2004 UEFA European Championship Final, Estádio da Luz, Lisbon, Portugal: In a huge upset Greece beats host nation Portugal, 1-0

• 2004 Wimbledon Men's Tennis: Roger Federer wins the second of 5 straight Wimbledon singles titles beating American Andy Roddick 4-6, 7-5, 7-6, 6-4
• 2005 The Deep Impact collider hits the comet Tempel 1
• 2006 North Korea tests four short-range missiles, one medium-range missile, and a long-range Taepodong-2. The long-range Taepodong-2 reportedly fails in mid-air over the Sea of Japan/East Sea.

• 2006 Space Shuttle program: STS-121 Mission - Space Shuttle Discovery launches at 18:37:55 UTC.

• 2009 Wimbledon Women's Tennis: Serena Williams beats older sister Venus 7-6, 6-2 for her 3rd Wimbledon singles title
• 2010 Wimbledon Men's Tennis: Spaniard Rafael Nadal beats Tomáš Berdych 6-3, 7-5, 6-4 for his second Wimbledon title
• 2012 12th century manuscript Codex Calixtinus from Santiago de Compostela Cathedral, Spain, rediscovered, after been stolen, in the garage of an employee of the cathedral [1]
• 2012 Scientists at CERN's Large Hadron Collider announce the discovery of a new particle consistent with the Higgs boson, the so-called 'God particle'
• 2013 12 people are killed and 60 are injured in a wave of shootings across Chicago
• 2014 Rolf Harris is sentenced to 5 years and 9 months for indecently assaulting female minors
• 2015 Copa América Final, Estadio Nacional Julio Martínez Prádanos, Santiago: Chile defeats Argentina, 4-1 penalties to win their first title; 0-0 after extra time
• 2015 Matt "Megatoad" Stonie, in an upset, defeats 8x hot dog eating champion Joey "Jaws" Chestnut at Nathan's Famous, Coney Island with 62 hot dogs
• 2015 Super Rugby Final, Westpac Stadium, Wellington: Otago Highlanders beat Wellington Hurricanes 21-14 for their first title
• 2015 Unesco grants World Heritage Status to vineyards in Champagne, France along with Singapore's Botanical Gardens, Diyarbakir Fortress (Turkey) and Maymand Caves (Iran)
• 2016 NASA's Juno spacecraft successfully enters Jupiter's orbit
• 2017 North Korea tests first successful intercontinental ballistic missile into Sea of Japan
• 2018 Chinese technology company Baidu announces it has begun mass production of self-driving buses, the 14-seat Apolong
• 2018 Hong Kong'stop court rules same-sex couples entitled to equal visa rights in landmark case
• 2018 Wildfire in Yolo county, California, grows to 82,700 acres with 2,800 fire fighters battling the blaze
• 2019 Biggest seaweed bloom in the world, the Great Atlantic Sargassum Belt stretches from West Africa to the Gulf of Mexico after algae explosion due to deforestation and fertiliser

• 2019 Largest earthquake in California in 20 years 6.4 magnitude near Ridgecrest
• 2019 Notorious Dutch crime boss Willem Holleeder sentenced to life for ordering five murders in Amsterdam
• 2019 Record temperatures in Alaska as Anchorage reaches 90F (32C)

• 2019 UN accuses Venezuelan government of using death squads and policy of installing fear to remove opposition with 5,287 people killed in 2018 for supposedly resisting arrest

• 2019 US publication Mad Magazine announces it will stop publishing new material after 67 years
• 2020 Record rain in over island of Kyushu in Japan causes flooding killing a least 37 people with evacuation of more than 200,00
• 2021 Columbus Blue Jackets' 24 year old Latvian goaltender Matīss Kivlenieks is killed when accidentally struck by fireworks at the home of team goaltending coach Manny Legace in Novi, Michigan
• 2021 Military plane crashes near Jolo, Philippines, killing at lease 45 with dozens saved from the burning wreckage

• 2022 Lone shooter at a 4th of July parade in Highland Park, Chicago, kills seven and wounds 47, later captured [1]
• 2022 Minneosta Twins turn 1st 8-5 triple play in MLB history as centerfielder Byron Buxton makes a catch and third baseman Gio Urshela tags one runner out in the basepath and doubles-off another runner by tagging second base against White Sox in Chicago
• 2023 Australian rules player Heather Anderson first known professional female athlete to be diagnosed with degenerative brain disease chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE) after landmark diagnosis at Australian Sports Brain Bank [1]
• 2023 Hottest global temperature ever recorded as average global temperature tops 17.18 degrees Celsius (previous record 17.01 degrees Celsius - July 3, 2023) [1]

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