| 76081 | July 4 | Event | 1946 – After 381 years of near-continuous colonial rule by various powers, the Philippines attains full independence from the United States. |
| 76082 | July 4 | Event | 1947 – 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. |
| 76083 | July 4 | Event | 1950 – Radio Free Europe first broadcasts. |
| 76084 | July 4 | Event | 1951 – A court in Czechoslovakia sentences American journalist William N. Oatis to ten years in prison on charges of espionage. |
| 76085 | July 4 | Event | 1951 – William Shockley announces the invention of the junction transistor. |
| 76086 | July 4 | Event | 1960 – Due to the post-Independence Day admission of Hawaii as the 50th U.S. state on August 21, 1959, the 50-star flag of the United States debuts in Philadelphia, almost ten and a half months later (see Flag Act). |
| 76087 | July 4 | Event | 1966 – U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson signs the Freedom of Information Act into United States law. The act went into effect the next year. |
| 76088 | July 4 | Event | 1976 – Israeli commandos raid Entebbe airport in Uganda, rescuing all but four of the passengers and crew of an Air France jetliner seized by Palestinian terrorists. |
| 76089 | July 4 | Event | 1977 – The George Jackson Brigade plants a bomb at the main power substation for the Washington state capitol in Olympia, in solidarity with a prison strike at the Walla Walla State Penitentiary Intensive Security Unit |
| 76090 | July 4 | Event | 1982 – Four Iranian diplomats are abducted by Lebanese militia in Lebanon. |
| 76091 | July 4 | Event | 1987 – In France, former Gestapo chief Klaus Barbie (a.k.a. the "Butcher of Lyon") is convicted of crimes against humanity and sentenced to life imprisonment. |
| 76092 | July 4 | Event | 1994 – Rwandan Genocide: Kigali, the Rwandan capital, is captured by the Rwandan Patriotic Front, ending the genocide in the city. |
| 76093 | July 4 | Event | 1997 – NASA's Pathfinder space probe lands on the surface of Mars. |
| 76094 | July 4 | Event | 1998 – Japan launches the Nozomi probe to Mars, joining the United States and Russia as a space exploring nation. |
| 76095 | July 4 | Event | 2004 – The cornerstone of the Freedom Tower is laid on the World Trade Center site in New York City. |
| 76096 | July 4 | Event | 2005 – The Deep Impact collider hits the comet Tempel 1. |
| 76097 | July 4 | Event | 2009 – The Statue of Liberty's crown reopens to the public after eight years of closure due to security concerns following the September 11 attacks. |
| 76098 | July 4 | Event | 2009 – The first of four days of bombings begins on the southern Philippine island group of Mindanao. |
| 76099 | July 4 | Event | 2012 – The discovery of particles consistent with the Higgs boson at the Large Hadron Collider is announced at CERN. |
| 76100 | July 4 | Event | 2015 – Tupou VI is officially crowned as the King of Tonga. |
| 76101 | July 4 | Birth | 68 – Salonina Matidia, Roman daughter of Ulpia Marciana (d. 119) |
| 76102 | July 4 | Birth | 1330 – Ashikaga Yoshiakira, Japanese shogun (d. 1367) |
| 76103 | July 4 | Birth | 1546 – Murad III, Ottoman sultan (d. 1595) |
| 76104 | July 4 | Birth | 1694 – Louis-Claude Daquin, French organist and composer (d. 1772) |
| 76105 | July 4 | Birth | 1715 – Christian Fürchtegott Gellert, German poet and academic (d. 1769) |
| 76106 | July 4 | Birth | 1719 – Michel-Jean Sedaine, French playwright (d. 1797) |
| 76107 | July 4 | Birth | 1790 – George Everest, Welsh geographer and surveyor (d. 1866) |
| 76108 | July 4 | Birth | 1799 – Oscar I of Sweden (d. 1859) |
| 76109 | July 4 | Birth | 1804 – Nathaniel Hawthorne, American author and diplomat (d. 1864) |
| 76110 | July 4 | Birth | 1807 – Giuseppe Garibaldi, Italian general and politician (d. 1882) |