Fun Facts for the Fourth

On this day in 1776, the Declaration of Independence was approved by the Continental congress, starting the 13 colonies on the road to freedom as a sovereign nation.

The 13 colonies are: Connecticut, New York, Delaware, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Pennsylvania, Virginia, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New Jersey.

The Declaration of Independence was part of the war between Great Britain and the American colonies called the American War of Indpendence or the Revolutionary War (1775-83).

George Washington was the commander-in-chief of the Continental Army during the Revolutionary War.

Thomas Jefferson, at age 33, drafted the Declaration of Independence for the Continental Congress. Future Presidents John Adams and Thomas Jefferson were 2 of the 56 signers of the Declaration of Independence.

Both John Adams and Thomas Jefferson, the only U.S. Presidents to have signed the Declaration of Independence, died on July 4, 1826 at their homes. President Monroe died on July 4, 1831.

Calvin Coolidge was born on July 4, 1872 in Plymouth, Vermont. He was the 30th President of the United States (1923-29).

The American national anthem, the "Star Spangled Banner", is set to the tune of an English drinking song ("To Anacreon in Heaven").

The patriotic poem "American the Beautiful" was published on July 4, 1895 by Wellesley College professor Katharine Lee Bates.

The first two versions of the Liberty Bell were defective and had to be melted down and recast. The third version rang every Fourth of July from 1778 to 1835, when, according to tradition, it cracked as it was being tolled for the death of Chief Justice John Marshall.

Have a Happy and Safe Fourth of July!!

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