I was in the Centereach, NY public library yesterday and came across this
reference which may help with questions such as the one posed by the red
transfer print on a ceramic sherd.

"What Happened When A Noted Researcher's Almanac of Yesterday's" Stanford
M. Mirkin, 1966 Ives Washburn, Inc., NY, second printing, 1968. "A new,
enlarged and up-to-date edition of the popular dictionary of dates first
published as WHEN DID IT HAPPEN (1957)"

Written by an editorial researcher for CBS, of Ossining, NY, it is "A day
by day human interst record of people and events that made the news in
other years."

July 8 was when the Declaration of Independence was read in Philadelphia,
PA.

George Myers