Posted on 07/04/2022 6:46:36 AM PDT by Rummyfan
You’ve probably heard that both John Adams and Thomas Jefferson died on July 4, 1826—the 50th anniversary of the adoption of the Declaration of Independence. But here are a few more American events that happened that day:
1827: Slavery officially ended in New York.
1831: “My Country, ‘Tis of Thee” was first performed at a children’s Independence Day celebration in Boston.
1831: President James Monroe died.
1863: The Siege of Vicksburg ended with a Confederate surrender.
1997: NASA’s Pathfinder landed and began its exploration of Mars.
2004: The cornerstone to the Freedom Tower was laid on the site of the previous World Trade Tower.
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[[ Slavery officially ended in New York.1831]]
And the left has been pissed ever since
Lou Gehrig’s speech
Both Jefferson and Adams died on the 4th of July 50 years after signing the Declaration on Independence.
President James Monroe died?
I didn’t even know he was sick.
..add James Monroe to that list. Calvin Coolidge wad born on 4th.
Stephan Foster, Nathaniel Hawthorne also born on 4th.
When a new state is added, the star is added to our flag on the 4th of July of that year.
And Vicksburg didn’t celebrate the 4th of July for about a hundred years after that.
Trump gave an address at Mount Rushmore on July 4, 2020.
Calvin Coolidge was born in 1872.
Edward Gibbon also published the first volume of The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire (London: Strahan & Cadell, 1776). It was a good year for book publishing.
That is an awesome fact. Thank you!!
One of the last things Adams said was, “Jefferson lives”, not knowing that Jefferson had died a few hours before him. Jefferson, Franklin, and Adams had headed the American mission to France during the Revolution, and were responsible for obtaining financial and ultimately naval and military assistance from her. When Adams was the first U.S. Ambassador to the Court of St. James, Jefferson, who as ambassador to France, left his daughter and her nanny, Sally Hemings, with the Adamses in London, while he made arrangements to find a suitable home in Paris.
Abigail was fond of Jefferson’s daughter, but did not care for Miss Hemings. Jefferson defeated Adams in his bid for reelection in 1804, in part due to scurrilous and false reports in a Virginia newspaper secretly funded by Jefferson. (Hillary is not nearly as original as she may believe.) When Adams became aware of Jefferson’s tactics he became estranged from his old friend.
Years later, when Jefferson’s daughter died, Abigail, who wrote wonderful letters, sent him a sympathy note, which opened a correspondence and rekindled the friendship between Adams and Jefferson.
Perhaps due to cosmic karma, the journalist who besmirched Adams in 1804, was disappointed when he sought a diplomatic appointment from Jefferson. That journalist subsequently became the only contemporary source of reports of a sexual relationship between Sally Hemings and Jefferson. There is the further irony, that Sally Hemings may have been Jefferson’s wife’s half-sister.
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