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- 2012 Discovery of Higgs boson particle is announced by scientists at the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN)
- 1966 Freedom of Information Act in the US is signed into law
Lyndon B. Johnson, the 36th President of the United States signed the law which allows for the disclosure of government information to the public.
- 1946 Philippines gains independence from the United States
Births On This Day,
July 4
- 1960 Barry Windham
American wrestler
- 1952 Álvaro Uribe
39th President of Colombia
- 1930 George Steinbrenner
American businessman
Deaths On This Day,
July 4
- 2011 Otto von Habsburg
Austrian/German son of Charles I of Austria
- 2008 Jesse Helms
American politician
- 1934 Marie Curie
Polish chemist, physicist, Nobel Prize laureate
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