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In 1099, during the First Crusade, 15,000 Christian soldiers marched in religious procession around Jerusalem as its Muslim defenders look on.

Col. John Nixon gave the first public reading of the Declaration of Independence, outside the State House (now Independence Hall) in Philadelphia.