Benjamin Franklin's Final Edition
Benjamin Franklin died at home in Philadelphia on April 17, 1790, at 84 — and some 20,000 mourners turned out for the printer who had helped invent a nation.
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Thomas Paine's 'Common Sense' Ignites a Revolution
On January 10, 1776, Thomas Paine's 47-page pamphlet Common Sense was published anonymously in Philadelphia, making the case for American independence in language ordinary colonists could not ignore.