🎉 Independence Day in the USA
Where: Independence Hall, Philadelphia
📅 On This Day: July 4
July 4: Independence Day in the USA. On 4 July 1776, the Declaration of Independence was adopted at Independence Hall in Philadelphia. Every year on this day, Americans celebrate with fireworks, parades and barbecues. The original Declaration is on display at the National Archives in Washington, D. C.
✨ More events on this day
- 1868 🔬 Astronomer Henrietta Swan Leavitt was born in 1868; she found a way to use blinking stars to measure how far away other galaxies are.
- 1997 🚀 NASA's Mars Pathfinder bounced down on Mars inside giant airbags in 1997, and its little rover Sojourner became the first wheeled robot to explore another planet.
- 2012 🔬 In 2012 scientists at CERN announced they had found a particle matching the Higgs boson, the long-hunted piece that helps explain why things have mass. CERN – Globe of Science and Innovation →
🧠 Question of the day
In which city was the Declaration adopted?
- Boston
- New York
- Philadelphia
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Answer: Philadelphia
Questions
What happened on July 4?
July 4: Independence Day in the USA. It happened in Independence Hall, Philadelphia.
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Source: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Independence_Day_(United_States)