What happened on July 4?

Well, not this:

Jefferson met the young American painter John Trumbull in London in 1786 and invited him to visit him in Paris. He arrived that summer and took up Jefferson's invitation to stay with him at his lodgings. Jefferson was much impressed with Trumbull's first two studies for a series of paintings of great events of the Revolution: the Battle of Bunker Hill and the death of General Montgomery at the Battle of Quebec. He suggested another theme for Trumbull: the signing of the Declaration of Independence. It compressed into a single dramatic moment a process that in fact took place, a signature at a time, through most of the summer of 1776, as members of Congress found the time to put their signatures to the document. The original painting was given by Trumbull as one of the founding works of the Yale Art Gallery, where it is to this day.