On This Day:
Friday, July 4, 2008: Today is “Independence Day!” In 1776, the Declaration of Independence was approved by the Continental Congress, even though the “official” signing didn’t happen until August 2nd, 1776. The manuscript journals included the famous declaration “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.”
On this day in 1826, fifty years to the day after the approval of the Declaration of Independence, which they both had a hand in drafting, former presidents Thomas Jefferson and John Adams died on the same day.
Today is the anniversary of the publishing of “America the Beautiful.” In 1895, the poem of the same name, by Katherine Lee Bates, a Wellesley College professor, was published in the “Congregationalist,” a church publication. It later went on to become one of America’s most beloved national songs.
Friday, July 4, 2008: Today is “Independence Day!” In 1776, the Declaration of Independence was approved by the Continental Congress, even though the “official” signing didn’t happen until August 2nd, 1776. The manuscript journals included the famous declaration “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.”
On this day in 1826, fifty years to the day after the approval of the Declaration of Independence, which they both had a hand in drafting, former presidents Thomas Jefferson and John Adams died on the same day.
Today is the anniversary of the publishing of “America the Beautiful.” In 1895, the poem of the same name, by Katherine Lee Bates, a Wellesley College professor, was published in the “Congregationalist,” a church publication. It later went on to become one of America’s most beloved national songs.
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