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United States Declaration of Independence

Jun 7 Richard Lee (Virginia) moves Declaration of Independence in Continental Congress

Engrossed copy of the United States Declaration of Independence

United States Declaration of Independence

Jun 11 Continental Congress creates committee to draft a Declaration of Independence with Thomas Jefferson, John Adams, Benjamin Franklin, Roger Sherman, and Robert R. Livingston as members

3rd US President Thomas Jefferson

Founding Father of the United States Robert R. Livingston

United States Founding Father Benjamin Franklin

Jun 12 Virginia adopts Declaration of Rights
Jun 28 Charleston, South Carolina repulses British sea attack
Jun 28 Final draft of Declaration of Independence submitted to Continental Congress
Jun 29 Mission Dolores founded at San Francisco Bay by Lieutenant José Joaquin Moraga and Francisco Palóu

Virginia State Constitution

Jun 29 Virginia state constitution adopted and Patrick Henry made governor

American Revolutionary and Founding Father Patrick Henry

Famous Birthdays

Jun 1 George Schetky, Scottish-American cellist, music teacher, and composer, born in Edinburgh, Scotland (d. 1831)
Jun 11 John Constable, English landscape painter (Hay Wain), born in East Bergholt, Suffolk, England (d. 1837)

Famous Deaths

Jun 10 Leopold Widhalm, Austrian luthier, dies at 53
Jun 20 Benjamin Huntsman, English inventor and manufacturer, dies at 72
Jun 27 Thomas Hickey, plan to hand George Washington to British, executed
Jun 28 Thomas Hickey, American sergeant convicted of treason, hanged

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