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Wednesday, July 3, 2013

Tomorrow is Independence Day. We will be celebrating with fireworks, picnics and music all in the name of our country's freedom. I can't share any fireworks with you, but I have put together a few, fun facts to pull on your friends and family tomorrow.



Today's Random Fact:

John Adams wrote that we actually declared our independence from Britain in Philadelphia on July 2. "The Second Day of July 1776, will be the most memorable Epocha, in the History of America," Adams wrote on July 3, 1776. "It ought to be solemnized with Pomp and Parade, with Shews, Games, Sports, Guns, Bells, Bonfires and Illuminations from one End of this Continent to the other from this Time forward forever more."

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Bonus Fact:

The 56 signers of the Declaration of Independence did not sign at the same time, nor did they sign on July 4, 1776. The official event occurred on August 2, 1776, when 50 men signed it. The names of the signers of the Declaration of Independence were withheld from the public for more than six months to protect the signers. If independence had not been achieved, the treasonable act of the signers would have, by law, resulted in their deaths.