The Continental Congress formally adopted the Declaration of Independence, declaring the thirteen American colonies free from British rule. The document, drafted primarily by Thomas Jefferson, remains one of history's most influential political texts.

The Continental Congress formally adopted and signed the Declaration of Independence, establishing the United States of America as a sovereign nation. Thomas Jefferson's draft declared all men created equal.

Scientists at CERN's Large Hadron Collider confirmed the discovery of the Higgs boson particle — the so-called 'God Particle' — completing the Standard Model of particle physics and earning Peter Higgs the Nobel Prize.