1976: Americans celebrate the U.S. bicentennial as President Gerald Ford speaks at Independence Hall in Philadelphia.
1845: Henry David Thoreau moves to Walden Pond in Massachusetts to begin a two-year experiment in simple living.
1939: More than two months after playing his last game, Lou Gehrig is honored by the New York Yankees, telling more than 60,000 fans: “Today I consider myself the luckiest man on the face of the earth.”
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