A typo in the Declaration of Independence?

Wednesday, July 4, 2012 - 10:02 in Paleontology & Archaeology

Dissemination of public documents was slow and labor-intensive in 1776. It’s too late to know for sure, but it’s interesting to speculate why a colonial printer — hurried, perhaps carried away by the excitement — would print copies of the Declaration of Independence and get the date wrong: June, weeks before the document was actually signed.

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