📅 July 4 in the Time Tunnel
What happened on July 4? Travel back in time and find out — then test yourself with the quiz.
🎉 Special days
⏳ On this day in history
- 1054People saw a star explode in the sky (a supernova) — it formed the Crab Nebula
- 1776The Continental Congress adopted the Declaration of Independence — America’s birthday
- 1862Lewis Carroll told children the story that became "Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland"
- 1997NASA’s Mars Pathfinder landed on Mars
- 2005NASA’s Deep Impact spacecraft crashed a probe into a comet to learn what it is made of
- 2012Scientists at CERN announced they had found the Higgs boson particle
🎂 Born on July 4
- 📖 Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804) — author of "The Scarlet Letter"
- 🇺🇸 Calvin Coolidge (1872) — 30th President — the only one born on the Fourth of July
July 4 quiz
In what year? 💥 People saw a star explode in the sky (a supernova) — it formed the Crab Nebula
In what year? 📜 The Continental Congress adopted the Declaration of Independence — America’s birthday
In what year? 🐇 Lewis Carroll told children the story that became "Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland"
Which famous person was born on July 4?