July 4th, 2009

July 4th in History

1998:
Lin "Spit" Newborn and Daniel Shersty are murdered by neonazis in the desert just outside Las Vegas.

1989:
14-year-old actress Drew Barrymore attempts suicide.

1934:
Leo Szilard patents the chain-reaction design for the atomic bomb.

1837:
Grand Junction Railway, world's first long-distance railway, opens between Birmingham and Liverpool.

1831:
James Monroe dies on the fifty-fifth anniversary of the Declaration of Independence.