July 4th, 2008

July 4th in History

1950:
First broadcast by Radio Free Europe.

1941:
Mass murder of Polish scientists and writers, committed by Nazi Germans in captured Polish city of Lwów.

1927:
First flight of the Lockheed Vega.

1827:
Slavery is abolished in New York State.

1584:
Sir Walter Ralegh first sees the coast of North Carolina