What happened on …: 2018 Calendar: July 4th | TIME ONLINE

Berlin (dpa) – The current schedule of 4 July 2018:

27 Calendar Week, 185th Day of the Year

There are 180 days left until the end of the year

Astrological sign: Cancer

Day of the name: Berta, Elisabeth, Ulrich

HISTORICAL DATA

2017 – North Korea tests for the first time an intercontinental missile. The Hwasong-14 crushes after 933 kilometers into the Sea of ​​Japan. She could have reached the American state of Alaska.

2016 – Nigel Farage leader of the British right-wing populist Ukip party resigns unexpectedly. He was one of Brexit's leading spokespersons ahead of the 23 June EU referendum.

2013 – British Prime Minister David Cameron inaugurates the world's largest offshore wind farm, London Array, in the Thames Estuary.

2008 – The United States opens its new embassy at the Brandenburg Gate. Chancellor Angela Merkel (CDU) thanks the United States for its support and friendship with Germany.

1954 – "Miracle of Bern": Germany is surprisingly world champion at the Wankdorf stadium in Bern with a 3-2 draw against Hungary.

1943 – The American Forces Network (AFN) American soldier station is broadcast in Europe for the first time in the Second World War from London .

1913 – The chemist Fritz Klatte receives the patent for his invention, plastic polyvinyl chloride, or PVC for short.

1840 – The Britannia begins in Liverpool to cross the Atlantic. The Canadian Steamship Samuel Cunard reaches after twelve days and ten hours Halifax and opens the regular service between Europe and America.

1776 – The English colonies of the east coast of North America declare their independence from Britain in the "Declaration of Independence". So, they establish the United States of America on the subsequent national holiday.

BIRTHDAYS

1963 – Henri Leconte (55), French tennis player, won nine singles and ten doubles titles.

1963 – Ute Lemper (55), German actress, singer and dancer

1943 – Heide Simonis (75), German politician (SPD) and economist, Prime Minister of Schleswig-Holstein 1993-2005

1938 – Bill Withers (80), American singer-songwriter ("Lean On Me"), winner of three Grammy Awards

1949 – Horst Seehofer (69), German politician (CSU), Bavarian Prime Minister 2008-2018, President of the CSU since 2008, Federal Minister of the Interior since 2018

THE DEATH DAY

2003 – Barry White, American soul singer and composer ("You are the first, the last, my all"), b. 1944

1888 – Birth of Theodor Storm, German writer ("The White Horse Rider"). 1817