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Show YESTERDAY IX HISTORY-JULY 4. I tSa-Hartford, Conn., founded. 1764 Benjamin Franklin drew up a plan of confederation, i which was adopted by a colonial convention at Al-i bany, but not ratified elsewhere. else-where. It fruit appeared , In the continental congress of 1774. y 1778 The declaration of inde- KAndanrfl nlnntflfi! filmed by John Hancock as presi- ttHK auecooa, dent of the congress and ordered to be engrossed en-grossed on parchment. Names of all but two of the fifty-six signers aulxed on Aug. 'i- 1770 After the capture of Wyoming, Pa., the Indians under Brandt massacred the settlers. 184ft Fiftieth anniversary of American independence; inde-pendence; John Adams and Thomas Jefferson, Jeffer-son, ex-presidents, died. 1831 Death of ex-President James Monroe in New York, aged 73. 1848 Corner stone of Washington monument laid; capstone laid Dec. 6, 1884. 1848 Peace with Mexico proclaimed by President Presi-dent Polk. New Mexico and California became be-came territories. 1868 Gen. Pemberton surrendered Vicksburg, Miss. Union loss slnca beginning of siege May 18, 4530; Confederate, including surrender, sur-render, 81,877. 1864 Fire In Portland, Me., mads 10,000 people homeless. Caused by a firecracker. 1808 Horatio Seymour and Francis P. Blair nominated for president and vice presidont by the Democrats. 1872 End of the great International peace jubilee at Boston; begun June 17. 1870 Centenary of the republio celebrated. 1879-CcUwayo, king of tile Zulus, defeated bj Lord Chelmsford; subsequently captured an sent to England. |