On this day: July 4

POSTED: 02:29 PM PDT Jun 27, 2012    UPDATED: 11:00 PM PDT Jul 03, 2012 

A country is born -- and later expands, an "Iron Horse" retires and we lose three presidents, all on this day in history.

July 4 OTD - Walt Whitman
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1855: The first edition of Walt Whitman's book of poems "Leaves of Grass" is published in Brooklyn, N.Y.

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