GREAT BRITAIN Henry VIII marries his first wife, Catherine of Aragon
This Day in History June 11th: 1509 - GREAT BRITAIN Henry VIII marries his first wife, Catherine of Aragon 1776 - AMERICAN REVOLUTION Congress appoints Committee of Five to draft the Declaration of Independence On June 11, 1776, the Continental Congress selects Thomas Jefferson of Virginia, John Adams of Massachusetts, Benjamin Franklin of Pennsylvania, Roger Sherman of Connecticut and Robert R. Livingston of New York to draft a declaration of independence. Knowing Jefferson’s prowess with a pen, Adams urged him to author the first draft of the document, which was then carefully revised by Adams and Franklin before being given to Congress for review on June 28. The revolutionary treatise began with reverberating prose: "When, in the Course of human Events, it becomes necessary for one People to dissolve the Political Bands which have connected them with another, and to assume, among the Powers of the Earth, the separate and equal Station to which the Laws of Nature and...