On this day

On this day

In 1776 US Congress proclaims the Declaration of Independence and independence from Britain.

In other anniversaries:

In 1865 Alice in Wonderland is published for the first time.

In a ceremony held in Paris on this day in 1884, the completed Statue of Liberty is formally presented to the U.S. ambassador as a commemoration of the friendship between France and the United States.

In 1934 Marie Curie Polish chemist, physicist, Nobel Prize laureate

In 1934 Hungarian physicist Leo Szilard patents the chain-reaction design for the atomic bomb.

In 1997 after traveling 120 million miles in seven months, NASA’s Mars Pathfinder becomes the first U.S. spacecraft to land on Mars in more than two decades. 

In 2017 North Korea tests first successful intercontinental ballistic missile into Sea of Japan.

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