Today in History

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 Jul 04
 Jul 04 Happy Independence Day. Advocate Constitutional Government!!
 Jul 04 1776 Declaration of Independence signed in Philadelphia PA
 Jul 04 1804 Nathaniel Hawthorne, author, born in Salem, Massachusetts
 Jul 04 1826 John Adams and Thomas Jefferson die on same day
 Jul 04 1831 James Monroe, the 5th president of the United States dies. He is the third to die on July 4
 Jul 04 1832 The song "America" written by Dr Samual Smith on scrap of paper and performed by Boston school children
 Jul 04 1843 Henry David Thoreau moves to Walden Pond, Massachusetts
 Jul 04 1848 corner stone of Washington monument is laid by President Polk
 Jul 04 1863 Battles of Vicksburg and Gettysburg won by Union forces
 Jul 04 1872 Calvin Coolidge, the 13th president, born
 Jul 04 1884 Statue of Liberty is given to U.S. to commemorate the French and American revolutions
 Jul 04 1900 Louis Armstrong born
 Jul 04 1912 Prof. Harold Hill, The Music Man, arrives in River City, Iowa
 Jul 04 1937 Hanna Reitsch pilots first successful helicopter flight, in Bremen Germany

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