Saturday, July 4, 2015
Thursday, July 2, 2015
Independence Day 2015, 239 and counting.
The First Independence Day...
Was based on the legal separation of the original 13 American Colonies from England on July 2 1776. This is the day that the Second Continental Congress voted to approve the resolution before them to break away. July 4 was the date on the Declaration of Independence, and the date that they approved the final draft. Thomas Jefferson, John Adams and Benjamin Franklin all wrote that they signed the Declaration on that day. It seems that it actually took about a month for all the signatures to be collected. That was completed in August, 1776.
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