All of us at YUBZ Talk USA would like to wish you a safe & Happy 4th of July.
Here a few facts about the 4th of July:
• Independence Day was first celebrated in Philadelphia on July 8, 1776.
• The Liberty Bell sounded from the tower of Independence Hall on July 8, 1776, summoning citizens to gather for the first public reading of the Declaration of Independence by Colonel John Nixon.
• Both Thomas Jefferson and John Adams died on Independence Day, July 4, 1826.
• Thomas McKean was the last to sign the Declaration of Indepence in January, 1777.
• The 4th of July was not declared a national holiday until 1941.
• The national anthem is actually set to the tune of an old English drinking song called To Anacreon in Heaven.
• When the United States became a country, there were approximately 2.5 million people living in the country. Today the population is around 304 million.
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