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We serve personalized stories based on the selected city OK. Go to TOI. The Times of India. From to the present day, July 4th has been celebrated as the birth of American independence, with festivities ranging from fireworks , parades and concerts to more casual family gatherings and barbecues.
When the initial battles in the Revolutionary War broke out in April , few colonists desired complete independence from Great Britain, and those who did were considered radical.
Livingston of New York —to draft a formal statement justifying the break with Great Britain. On July 4th, the Continental Congress formally adopted the Declaration of Independence , which had been written largely by Jefferson. Though the vote for actual independence took place on July 2nd, from then on the 4th became the day that was celebrated as the birth of American independence.
Festivities including concerts, bonfires, parades and the firing of cannons and muskets usually accompanied the first public readings of the Declaration of Independence, beginning immediately after its adoption. Philadelphia held the first annual commemoration of independence on July 4, , while Congress was still occupied with the ongoing war. George Washington issued double rations of rum to all his soldiers to mark the anniversary of independence in , and in , several months before the key American victory at the Battle of Yorktown , Massachusetts became the first state to make July 4th an official state holiday.
By the last decade of the 18th century, the two major political parties—the Federalist Party and Democratic-Republicans—that had arisen began holding separate Fourth of July celebrations in many large cities. The first fireworks were used as early as BC. The tradition of setting off fireworks on the 4 of July began in Philadelphia on July 4, , during the first organized celebration of Independence Day. Every 15th August, we all stand proud in our whites, saffrons or greens and blues and proclaim our love for our motherland.
It was in , on the stroke of midnight, every man, woman and child of the country stood wide awake, ready to welcome a new era of independence and a new governance. Since then, every year on 15th August we celebrate Independence Day and this is the 70th Independence Day in that we will be celebrating. The struggle to independence was not an easy one for us Indians and we had many movements before we finally managed to free our country.
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