HISTORY MOMENTS The Idaho State Historical Society reports that during this week in history: President Benjamin Harrison signed the Idaho Admission Bill at 10:00 a.m. on July 3, 1890, making Idaho the 43rd state. Former presidents John Adams and Thomas Jefferson both died on July 4, 1826—50 years to the day after the Declaration of Independence was signed. Former president James Monroe died on the same day of the month five years later. Harmon Killebrew was born on June 29, 1936, in Payette and began his 20-year major league baseball career at the age of 17. Killebrew won six American League home run titles and ranks fifth on the all-time list of home run hitters with 573. He was inducted into the baseball Hall of Fame in 1984. The last of the "log cabin presidents" James Garfield was mortally wounded on July 2, 1881, in Washington, D.C. Alexander Graham Bell, inventor of the telephone, tried unsuccessfully to find the bullet with an induction-balance electrical device which he had designed, as Garfield lay in the White House for weeks. In September Garfield was taken to the New Jersey seaside. For a few days he seemed to be recuperating, but died 13 days later from an infection and internal hemorrhage. World famous Pulitzer and Nobel prize-winning novelist Ernest Hemmingway committed suicide at his home near Ketchum on July 2, 1961.