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 From July 5th to July 11 July 5,1775 - - The Continental Congress adopted the Olive Branch Petition expressing hope for a reconciliation with Britain. However, King George III refused even to look at the petition and instead issued a proclamation declaring the colonists to be in a state of open rebellion. July 6, 1885 - - Louis Pasteur gave the first successful anti-rabies inoculation to a boy who had been bitten by an infected dog. July 7, 1898 - - President William McKinley signed a resolution annexing Hawaii. In 1900-, Congress made Hawaii an incorporated territory of the U.S., which it remained until becoming a state in 1959. July 8, 1776 - - The first public reading of the Declaration of Independence occurred as Colonel John Nixon read it to an assembled crowd in Philadelphia. July 9, 1868 - - The 14th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution was ratified. The Amendment defined U.S. citizenship and prohibited individual States from abridging the rights of any American citizen without due process and equal protection under the law. The Amendment also barred individuals in rebellion against the U.S. from holding public office. July 10, 1943 - - The Allied invasion of Italy began with an attack on the island of Sicily. The British entry into Syracuse was the first Allied success in Europe. General Dwight D. Eisenhower labeled the invasion 'the first page in the liberation of the European Continent'. July 11, 1767 - - John Quincy Adams, the 6th U.S. President, and son of the 2nd President, John Adams, was born in Braintree, Massachusetts. After serving just one term as President, he served 17 years as a member of Congress. He died in 1848 while in the House of Representatives in the same room in which he had taken the presidential Oath of Office. He was the first president whose father had also been president.
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