There is a scarey side to the fireworks though. This year in 1999, the wind was blowing when the fireworks show was going off. Unfortunately, it was blowing the embers back onto the spectators. There were several people that got burned. Some got debris in their eyes.
Fireworks are not toys. They can be dangerous ! Please keep this in mind as you celebrate our countries freedom.
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Independence Day. The Declaration of Independence from Great Britain was passed by the Continental Congress in Philadelphia, July 4, 1776 (see Declaration of Independence). Pennsylvania, in 1873, was the first state to declare this date a legal holiday. There is, however, a record of an earlier observance elsewhere. The citizens of New Bern, N.C., celebrated Independence Day on July 4, in 1778. Pennsylvania's action was followed by all the states.
In the United States, we celebrate the Forth of July, traditionally, by parades and fireworks displays. The fireworks are to remind us of the bombs and sacrifices made to secure the freedom of our country.
Jazz trumpeter Louis Armstrong was born on this date in 1900. He had an intuitive genius for improvisation, and jazz was never the same after him.
United States President Calvin Coolidge was born on this date in 1872. He was the sixth vice- president to become president upon the death of the chief executive.
American novelist Nathaniel Hawthorne was born on this date in 1804. His themes were drawn from a Puritan preoccupation with guilt and the natural depravity of human beings.
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