From local New York news station NY1:
July 9
1776: The Declaration of Independence, adopted by Congress
just five days earlier, is read aloud to General Washington's troops in New
York in the midst of the Revolutionary War. Soldiers and civilians celebrate by
tearing down a statue of King George III in Bowling Green. The statue is later
melted down and used to make thousands of musket balls.
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