On this day: July 4

July 4: Feast day of Ulrich of Augsburg (Roman Catholicism); Republic Day in the Philippines (1946); Independence Day in the United States (1776)

• 1054 – Chinese astronomers recorded the sudden appearance of a "guest star", which was in actuality the supernova that created the Crab Nebula.
• 1862 – In a rowing boat on the River Thames from Oxford to Godstow, author Lewis Carroll told Alice Liddell and her sisters a story that would eventually form the basis for his book Alice's Adventures in Wonderland.
• 1945 – The Brazilian cruiser Bahia was accidentally sunk by one of its own crewmen, killing more than 300 and stranding the rest in shark-infested waters.
• 1965 – The first Annual Reminder, a series of early pickets organized by homophile organizations, one of the earliest LGBT demonstrations in the United States, took place at Independence Hall in Philadelphia.
• 2005 – The NASA space probe Deep Impact impacted (pictured) the nucleus of the comet Tempel 1, excavating debris from its interior so that its composition could be studied.

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