WHAT HAPPENED ON 4. JULY
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Philippine–American War officially is concluded. (4. July 1903)

Dorothy Levitt is reported as the first woman in the world to compete in a 'motor race'. (4. July 1903)

African-American boxer Jack Johnson knocks out white boxer Jim Jeffries in a heavyweight boxing match, sparking race riots across the United States. (4. July 1910)

A massive heat wave strikes the northeastern United States, killing 380 people in eleven days and breaking temperature records in several cities. (4. July 1911)

President Woodrow Wilson addresses American Civil War veterans at the Great Reunion of 1913. (4. July 1913)

The funeral of Archduke Franz Ferdinand and his wife Sophie takes place in Vienna, six days after their assassinations in Sarajevo. (4. July 1914)

Ottoman sultan Mehmed VI ascended to the throne. (4. July 1918)

Bolsheviks killed Tsar Nicholas II of Russia and his family (Julian calendar date). (4. July 1918)

Knoebels Amusement Resort is opened in Elysburg, Pennsylvania. (4. July 1926)

The Lockheed Vega first flew. (4. July 1927)

Leo Szilard patented the chain-reaction design for the atomic bomb. (4. July 1934)

Lou Gehrig, recently diagnosed with Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, informs a crowd at Yankee Stadium that he considered himself "The luckiest man on the face of the earth", then announces his retirement from major league baseball. (4. July 1939)

Huỳnh Phú Sổ founds Hòa Hảo Buddhism. (4. July 1939)

Nazi troops massacre Polish scientists and writers in the captured Ukrainian city of Lviv. (4. July 1941)

World War II: The Battle of Kursk, the largest full-scale battle in history and the world's largest tank battle, begins in Prokhorovka village. (4. July 1943)

World War II: In Gibraltar, a Royal Air Force B-24 Liberator bomber crashes into the sea in an apparent accident moments after takeoff, killing sixteen passengers on board; only the pilot survives. (4. July 1943)

After 381 years of near-continuous colonial rule by various powers, the Philippines attains full independence from the United States. (4. July 1946)

The "Indian Independence Bill" is presented before the British House of Commons, proposing the independence of the Provinces of British India into two sovereign countries: India and Pakistan. (4. July 1947)

Radio Free Europe first broadcasts. (4. July 1950)

A court in Czechoslovakia sentences American journalist William N. Oatis to ten years in prison on charges of espionage. (4. July 1951)