Template:On this day/July 4

Copy the 3-5 most noteworthy events from the corresponding date page. Please change to past tense and bold the key article. You may also include a relevant photo, sized between 100-140px wide and aligned right.

July 4:

• 1776 – The Declaration of Independence is approved by Congress. Written largely by Thomas Jefferson in Philadelphia, Pa.
• 1803 – The Louisiana Purchase is announced to the American people by President Thomas Jefferson.
• 1826 – Thomas Jefferson died in Monticello at 12:50 p.m. at age 83, on the 50th anniversary of the adoption of the Declaration of Independence.
• 1826 – Henry Martin, a slave believed to have been born at Monticello on the same day that Thomas Jefferson died.
• 1931 – James Monroe died at age 73, thus becoming the third president to have died on Independence Day.
• 1836 – The first meeting of the Society of Alumni of the University of Virginia, now known as the Alumni Association, was held in the Rotunda library.
• 1936 – President Franklin Delano Roosevelt gave a radio address from Monticello.