On June 11, 1776, the Continental Congress appointed John Adams, Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Jefferson, Robert R. Livingston, and Roger Sherman to draft a declaration of independence from Great Britain.
In 1963, Thich Quang Duc, a Buddhist monk, doused himself with gasoline and set himself aflame in a busy Saigon intersection as a protest against South Vietnam’s lack of religious freedom.
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“Let them burn, and we will clap our hands.” —Tran Le Xuan (a.k.a. “Madame Nhu”), sister-in-law of Ngo Dinh Diem, and the effective First Lady of the Republic of Viet-Nam