Fun facts about July 4
John Adams believed that July 2nd was the correct date on which to celebrate the birth of American independence, and would reportedly turn down invitations to appear at July 4th events in protest. Adams and Thomas Jefferson both died on July 4, 1826--the 50th anniversary of the adoption of the Declaration of Independence.
The first public Fourth of July event at the White House occurred in 1804.
In 1870, the U.S. Congress made July 4th a federal holiday
The names of the signers of the Declaration of Independence were withheld from the public for more than six months to protect the signers. If independence had not been achieved, the treasonable act of the signers would have, by law, resulted in their deaths.
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. ~The Declaration of Independence 4 of July, 1776.
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Wednesday, July 4, 2012
Saturday, July 3, 2010
Happy Long Weekend
It's actually July 4, meaning it's Independence Day. Not just a long 
weekend, not just BBQ and fireworks, but the date the Declaration of Independence was signed. The date we thumbed our noses at England and said screw you!
No, not really. Honest, I do know my history. I have a degree in it and everything!
Here's a brief timeline of how the Declaration came to be. PLEASE NOTE: It took 4 days, FOUR DAYS! for congress to debate, change, add, subtract, and ratify the Declaration. What's wrong with us now?
June 12-27: Jefferson, at the request of the committee, drafts a declaration, of which only a fragment exists. Jefferson's clean, or "fair" copy, the "original Rough draught," is reviewed by the committee. Both documents are in the manuscript collections of the Library of Congress.
June 28: A fair copy of the committee draft of the Declaration of Independence is read in Congress.
July 1-4: Congress debates and revises the Declaration of Independence.
July 2: Congress declares independence as the British fleet and army arrive at New York.
July 4: Congress adopts the Declaration of Independence in the morning of a bright, sunny, but cool Philadelphia day. John Dunlap prints the Declaration of Independence. These prints are now called "Dunlap Broadsides." Twenty-four copies are known to exist, two of which are in the Library of Congress. One of these was Washington's personal copy.
weekend, not just BBQ and fireworks, but the date the Declaration of Independence was signed. The date we thumbed our noses at England and said screw you!No, not really. Honest, I do know my history. I have a degree in it and everything!
Here's a brief timeline of how the Declaration came to be. PLEASE NOTE: It took 4 days, FOUR DAYS! for congress to debate, change, add, subtract, and ratify the Declaration. What's wrong with us now?
June 12-27: Jefferson, at the request of the committee, drafts a declaration, of which only a fragment exists. Jefferson's clean, or "fair" copy, the "original Rough draught," is reviewed by the committee. Both documents are in the manuscript collections of the Library of Congress.
June 28: A fair copy of the committee draft of the Declaration of Independence is read in Congress.
July 1-4: Congress debates and revises the Declaration of Independence.
July 2: Congress declares independence as the British fleet and army arrive at New York.
July 4: Congress adopts the Declaration of Independence in the morning of a bright, sunny, but cool Philadelphia day. John Dunlap prints the Declaration of Independence. These prints are now called "Dunlap Broadsides." Twenty-four copies are known to exist, two of which are in the Library of Congress. One of these was Washington's personal copy.
July 4, 1776: 13 colonies become The Thirteen United States of America
When in the Course of human events it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.
Signed— John Hancock
New Hampshire:
Josiah Bartlett, William Whipple, Matthew Thornton
Massachusetts:
John Hancock, Samuel Adams, John Adams, Robert Treat Paine, Elbridge Gerry
Rhode Island:
Stephen Hopkins, William Ellery
Connecticut:
Roger Sherman, Samuel Huntington, William Williams, Oliver Wolcott
New York:
William Floyd, Philip Livingston, Francis Lewis, Lewis
Morris
New Jersey:
Richard Stockton, John Witherspoon, Francis
Hopkinson, John Hart, Abraham Clark
Pennsylvania:
Robert Morris,
Benjamin Rush, Benjamin Franklin, John Morton, George Clymer, James Smith,
George Taylor, James Wilson, George Ross
Delaware:
Caesar Rodney,
George Read, Thomas McKean
Maryland:
Samuel Chase, William Paca,
Thomas Stone, Charles Carroll of Carrollton
Virginia:
George Wythe,
Richard Henry Lee, Thomas Jefferson, Benjamin Harrison, Thomas Nelson, Jr.,
Francis Lightfoot Lee, Carter Braxton
North Carolina:
William
Hooper, Joseph Hewes, John Penn
South Carolina:
Edward Rutledge,
Thomas Heyward, Jr., Thomas Lynch, Jr., Arthur Middleton
Georgia:
Button Gwinnett, Lyman Hall, George Walton
Tuesday, July 3, 2007
Goals for July
It's a new month (only 3 days into it, not many!), so there are new goals to think about.
OK, I think that's enough. 75+ thousand words, 2 stories, 28 days to go. Yup...that's enough for this month.
- Finish Birthrite - Morganna
- Outline and start Sordid Games - contemporary set in Savannah
OK, I think that's enough. 75+ thousand words, 2 stories, 28 days to go. Yup...that's enough for this month.
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