This day in history JULY 4th-
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Started by metmike - July 5, 2020, 1:45 a.m.

Read and learn about history. Pick out a good one for us:


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/July_4

1776 – American Revolution: The United States Declaration of Independence is adopted by the Second Continental Congress.

metmike: Never knew that one. Very strange. 


1862Lewis Carroll tells Alice Liddell a story that would grow into Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and its sequels.


1911 – A massive heat wave strikes the northeastern United States, killing 380 people in eleven days and breaking temperature records in several cities.

No air conditioning back then )-:

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By metmike - July 5, 2020, 1:47 a.m.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Declaration_of_Independence

The United States Declaration of Independence is the pronouncement adopted by the Second Continental Congress meeting at the Pennsylvania State House (now known as Independence Hall) in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, on July 4, 1776. The Declaration explained why the Thirteen Colonies at war with the Kingdom of Great Britain regarded themselves as thirteen independent sovereign states, no longer under British rule. With the Declaration, these new states took a collective first step toward forming the United States of America. The declaration was signed by representatives from New Hampshire, Massachusetts Bay, Rhode Island, Connecticut, New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Maryland, Delaware, Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Georgia.