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Show July Fourth May Be Independence Day I But It's Also Famous for Other Reasons : ,""r""'"-.""""'m A mm .1 . 1 , iff 1 1 JL i A) m 1 VCC . - i . t jbk-k& ' S I ,4 ''' r " S 1 ; ? 'fit ; ' ' 1 i 1 Ilere Is Jack Dempsey as he ap-peared ap-peared 20 years ago thi,s July Fourth, the day he won the heavyweight heavy-weight boxing championship from Jess Willard by a knockout in Toledo, To-ledo, Ohio. This year a celebration, and possible re-enactment of the title bout is scheduled at Toledo, with both Willard and Dempsey participating. 5 Three Presidents died on July Fourth; another was born that date. The late Calvin Coolidge first saw light of day on July 4, 1872. HISTORY will cherish July Fourth as the day the United States declared its independence inde-pendence from Great Britain. But before 1776, and in subsequent subse-quent years, a notable list of occasions has grown around the date. For instance: Poet Nathaniel Nathan-iel Hawthorne was born this day in 1801; Guiseppe Garibaldi, the unifier of Italy, was born in 1807; George M. Cohan, the actor, i9 61 ' years old July Fourth. Mary Hunt, organizer of the bureau of scientific temperance tem-perance investigation, was born this day in 1830, and the event is observed annually by the W. C. T. U. History also tells us' that on July 4, 1894, the first automobile automo-bile ever built commercially made its trial run at Kokomo, Ind. This was the automobile of Elwood Ilaynes, built by Edgar L. Apperson of Detroit. Other important July Fourth anniversaries are pictured here, anniversaries which Americans usually forget when they shoot ofT their firecrackers and wave flags. fm' " - v - h Jr t s " -v V'J'V," - "X, ! - $ ..... . yV- O One of the Civil war's bloodiest battles came to an end on July 4, 1863, when Vicksburg surrendered. The battlefield appears above in its present slate, reconstructed re-constructed as a national park. t r ! r if v x s y i I ' A 'x ft r i V r .y.vw.. . im y l 'I r " i , " . " - - - I ;. . ;;: ,; i: . 'v . .; :. .. . . .' .- ' ' - ' , - - ; v ; 3 ':' ' ' ; .' V.ij I . i ,,!! , i,i j- -i. , f.hir 2 July 4, 182G, was a fateful date in United States history, for within with-in a few hours of each other two ex-Presidents passed away. They were John Adams (above) and Thoma,s Jefferson. A few years later the Grim Reaper struck again on Independence Day. July 4, 1831, found President James Monroe passing pass-ing away. A This year on July Fourth will be commemorated the 150th anniversary of adoption by congress of the first protective tariff legislation, constructed largely large-ly by James Madison. fi Pictured above is the Eric canal. " Now a commonplace fixture, it drew great attention when work was started on it July 4, 1817. pu ppwu"jpmijuwm m-vMPIl I'lHrjUI'U PMPIIpWU.lIJ, :- A 1 1 M " ' " ' 2 ! ' i J i ' : ;i r ; -I i 'i I I I ;i I j h j i : i-r- i I - ' - --- - - 7 Another anniversary related to July Fourth Is the Washington monument, whose cornorstone was laid that day in 1848. |
