Notable events that have taken place on

Residents of the United States spend July 4th celebrating the country’s independence. Though July 4 has served as America’s Independence Day for centuries, many other significant and memorable events have taken place on the fourth day of July.

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• 1776: The United States Declaratio of ndependence is adopted by the Second Cont al Congress. July 4 actually marks the e final wording of the declaration, which ha submitted on July 2, was approved.

• 1802: The United States Military Academy officially commences operations. Located in West Point, New , the USMA is the oldest of the five America ce academies.

• 1826: On the fiftieth anniversary of the adoption of the Declaration of the Independence, the second and third presidents of the United States, John Adams and Thomas Jefferson, respectively, pass away. Both men were instrumental to American success during the American Revolution.

• 1831: Samuel Francis Smith’ ountry, ‘Tis of The ” ed in public for the first t

Day celebration in Boston.

• 1845: Naturalist and essayist into a cabin on Walden Pond in C experiences there would later be d

• 1913: President oodrow Wil Americ n ar at a reunion m s e Battle of Gettysburg. M the war, including roughly 9,00 the reunion.

• 1939: New York Yankees first nounces retirement to a crowd ing the he feels h is “the luckie earth.” hrig had recently bee late al sclerosis, a disease that wo as “Lou Gehr g’s disease.”

1983: Twenty-four-year ol Ne Dave Righetti throws a no-hitter Sox at Yankee Stadium. Righetti s batters he faced and even overcam when umpire Steve Palermo suffe Yankees owner George Steinbrenn as he was in Flori rat ng h

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