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Show On the "Glorious Fourth" Great American events celebrated on the Fourth of July would include the birth of such men as Nathaniel Hawthorne, Giuseppe Garibaldi, Stephen Collins Foster, Joseph Pen-nell Pen-nell and Calvin Coolidge, John Adams, Thomas Jefferson and James Monroe died on the Fourth of July. The corner stone of the Washington monument was laid July 4, 1848; work was commenced on the Erie canal, 1817; the surrender of Vicks-burg Vicks-burg occurred July 4, 18G3 ; Providence, Provi-dence, R. I., was founded by Roger Williams, 1636. |