1776 US Congress proclaims the Declaration of Independence and independence from Britain
1785 James Hutton, geologist, publicly reads an abstract of his theory of uniformitarianism for the first time at the meeting of the Royal Society of Edinburgh
1817 – Construction began on the Erie Canal, to connect Lake Erie and the Hudson River.
1819 William Herschel makes last telescopic observation of 1819 comet
1848 – In Washington, DC, the cornerstone for the Washington Monument was laid.
1855 In Brooklyn, New York, the first edition of Walt Whitman’s book of poems, titled Leaves of Grass, is published.
1884 Statue of Liberty presented to US in Paris
2004 The cornerstone of the Freedom Tower is laid on the site of the World Trade Center in New York City.
2015 UNESCO grants World Heritage Status to vineyards in Champagne, France along with Singapore’s Botanical Gardens, Diyarbakir Fortress (Turkey) and Maymand Caves (Iran)
By:Archa Dave
