Happy Birthday to the United States of America. On this day 242 years ago, the leaders of the Continental Congress of the 13 American colonies voted to adopt the Declaration of Independence, breaking with the King of England to start their own country. (1776)
MORE Good News on this Day:
- Henry David Thoreau, the American writer, embarked on a two-year experiment in simple living at Walden Pond near Concord, Massachusetts (1845)
- Leaves of Grass is first published in…
