The Gaston Gazette in Gastonia, North Carolina

Historic Independence Declarations Across Years and Disasters

Key events include the 1776 reading of the Declaration to Washington's troops in New York, Argentina's 1816 independence from Spain, a Nashville collision incident, the DSC creation by Congress, Truman's 1945 push to end wartime status with Germany, and the 1982 Pan Am 727 crash in Kenner Louisiana that killed 145 aboard and eight on the ground.