1826 - Former presidents John Adams and Thomas Jefferson both died.
1831 - Former president James Monroe died.
1845 - Henry David Thoreau moved into his shack on Walden Pond.
1884 - The Statue of Liberty was presented to the United States in Paris.
1895 - Katharine Lee Bates published America the Beautiful.
1939 - Lou Gehrig, stricken with ALS, made his farewell at Yankee Stadium.
1976 - The United States celebrated its bicentennial.
1997 - The U.S. Pathfinder probe landed on Mars.
To see a madstone applied to a wound from the fangs of some mad animal,
denotes that you will endeavor, to the limits of your energy,
to shield self from the machinations of enemies, which will soon
envelop you with the pall of dishonorable defeat.
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