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Patriot politician and composer Francis Hopkinson dies
On this day, May 9th, in 1791, Francis Hopkinson, signer of the Declaration of Independence and the first American secular composer, dies suddenly of a seizure in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Hopkinson was born to an elite […]