A YEAR AND A DAY AFTER GEORGE WASHINGTON TAKES COMMAND OF THE CONTINENTAL ARMY, AMERICA DECLARES ITS INDEPENDENCE

THE UNITED STATES OF

AMERICA DECLARE THEIR

INDEPENDENCE

July 4, 1776

STATUE COMMEMORATING

GEORGE WASHINGTON

BOSTON COMMON

BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS

The United Kingdom sends the Magna Carta to Washington, D.C., to mark the bicentennial of the Declaration of Independence (photograph and story here)