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Do you know which former U.S. president was born on July 4?
Dayton Daily News ^ | Nicholas Hrkman

Posted on 07/04/2005 10:28:09 PM PDT by nickcarraway

•President Calvin Coolidge was born in Plymouth, Vt., on July 4, 1872. He is the only president born on July 4; however, John Adams, Thomas Jefferson and James Monroe all died on the Fourth of July.

•One lucky Philadelphian purchased a $4 picture at a flea market. Behind the picture was an original 1776 printing of the Declaration of Independence. It was sold to TV producer Norman Lear for $8.1 million.

•After the war, King George III rationalized that Washington would become a dictator and make the Americans yearn for royal rule. When he was told that Washington planned to resign his commission, the monarch gasped: "If he does that ... he will be the greatest man in the world."

•The American colonies declared their independence from the British empire on July 2, 1776. However, this declaration was not approved until July 4, 1776. John Adams wrote, "The Second of July will be a memorable epoch in the history of America. I am apt to believe that it will be celebrated by succeeding generations as the great anniversary festival."

•George Washington ran dozens of espionage rings in British-held New York and Philadelphia, and the man who supposedly could not tell a lie was a genius at disinformation. He constantly befuddled the British by leaking, through double agents, inflated reports on the strength of his army.

•Future president John Adams took up the defense of the British soldiers involved with the "Boston Massacre." He, along with Joshua Quincy, was able to get all but two acquitted by a local jury.

•Most people know about how the 50 to 60 "Sons of Liberty," disguised as Mohawks, protested the 3 cents per pound British tax on tea by dumping chests of it into Boston Harbor on Dec. 16, 1773. However, did you know that the Bostonians repeated the act on March 7, 1774? The two tea parties cost the British around $3 million in today's money.

•John Trumbull's oil on canvas shows the signing of the Declaration of Independence in what is now called Independence Hall, Philadelphia. The painting features the committee that drafted the Declaration of Independence — John Adams, Robert Sherman, Thomas Jefferson (presenting the document) and Benjamin Franklin — standing before John Hancock, the president of the Continental Congress. The painting includes portraits of 42 of the 56 signers and five other patriots.


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1 posted on 07/04/2005 10:28:10 PM PDT by nickcarraway
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To: nickcarraway

bump for later read


2 posted on 07/04/2005 10:30:11 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican
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To: nickcarraway

Well Bush came close...born on July 6 (don't know what year).

So was I...in '78.

I'm glad to share a birthday with one of the best Presidents in modern history!


3 posted on 07/04/2005 10:30:47 PM PDT by FeeinTennessee (www.saluteheroes.org.........www.peoplepolitical.org)
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To: nickcarraway
How many Presidents died on July 4? Two died on the same 4th of July. Are there any others?
4 posted on 07/04/2005 10:37:04 PM PDT by Paleo Conservative (Hey! Hey! Ho! Ho! Andrew Heyward's got to go!)
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To: Paleo Conservative

Try reading the FIRST paragraph for the answer...LOL


5 posted on 07/05/2005 12:36:30 AM PDT by Proud Conservative2 (Protect America....Help stamp out gutless wonders in the Senate.)
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To: nickcarraway

The original print of several hundred copies of the Declaration only had Hancock's and another guys signature on it - and was the one that they sent to King George. The congress then voted that everyone present when they agreed on the Declaration should sign it (which was done weeks - perhaps months later, I don't recall). And one or two guys had already left for home so didn't sign it.


6 posted on 07/05/2005 12:43:56 AM PDT by geopyg ("It's not that liberals don't know much, it's just that what they know just ain't so." (~ R. Reagan))
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To: geopyg

---which was done weeks - perhaps months later, I don't recall---

Final Official version signed by the 56 on August 2nd, 1776. One of the original five that was assigned to coming up with the Declaration thought it was "premature" and didn't sign it! We'd already been fighting the English for a year and some guy thinks it's premature, don't want to make them mad at us I suppose. Some things never change!


7 posted on 07/05/2005 1:00:47 AM PDT by geopyg ("It's not that liberals don't know much, it's just that what they know just ain't so." (~ R. Reagan))
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To: nickcarraway

When you are done answering that.....riddle me this please. Were any signers of the Declaration of Independence Jewish? The question just popped into my head.


8 posted on 07/05/2005 1:04:02 AM PDT by commonasdirt (Reading DU so you won't hafta)
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To: nickcarraway
Washington was the only President who was unanimously elected.

Martin Van Buren was the first President to have been born an American citizen.

Lincoln was the first President born outside of the original 13 states.

9 posted on 07/05/2005 1:04:12 AM PDT by WestVirginiaRebel (Carnac: A siren, a baby and a liberal. Answer: Name three things that whine.)
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To: nickcarraway
However, did you know that the Bostonians repeated the act on March 7, 1774?

And the 'missing' tea party Chestertown, Maryland

10 posted on 07/05/2005 1:22:17 AM PDT by Smokin' Joe (Grant no power to government you would not want your worst enemies to wield against you.)
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To: FeeinTennessee

Happy Birthday! - We're in Tennessee, too. Did you see the Nashville fireworks last night? We went to Nashville last year for a 4th of July trip to see the fireworks. It was nice, but the traffic was thick as thieves and much better to just watch it at home on t.v. this time.


11 posted on 07/05/2005 2:58:00 AM PDT by Twinkie (Faith cometh by hearing, and hearing by the Word of God.)
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To: geopyg
.... and some guy thinks it's premature, don't want to make them mad at us ...

Gosh, I didn't realize McCain was that old.

12 posted on 07/05/2005 3:32:55 AM PDT by barker (If you get to thinkin' you're a person of some iinfluence, try ordering somebody else's dog around.)
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To: FeeinTennessee

Pres. Bush is 59 this year. Only five years older than me.


13 posted on 07/05/2005 5:45:37 AM PDT by buffyt ("If men are so wicked with religion, what would they be if without it?" Ben Franklin)
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To: FeeinTennessee

George W. Bush, William J. Clinton, Cher, Sylvester Stallone, me and many others were all born in 1946.


14 posted on 07/06/2014 6:55:54 AM PDT by na4665
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To: nickcarraway; StayAt HomeMother; Ernest_at_the_Beach; 1ofmanyfree; 21twelve; 24Karet; ...
Note: this topic is from 07/04/2005. Thanks nickcarraway.
Most people know about how the 50 to 60 "Sons of Liberty," disguised as Mohawks, protested the 3 cents per pound British tax on tea by dumping chests of it into Boston Harbor on Dec. 16, 1773. However, did you know that the Bostonians repeated the act on March 7, 1774? The two tea parties cost the British around $3 million in today's money.
If you go to the old meeting house, there at least used to be a metal plate with an engraving which read, "through these doors the Patriots left for the Boston Tea Party". And it was literally *those doors*. I still get a thrill thinking about how I got to touch 'em. There's another building which has a sort of balcony, and from that balcony the Declaration of Independence was first read out to the people of Boston. From that window one can look down and see the memorial at the very site of the Boston Massacre.

15 posted on 03/06/2018 10:23:53 PM PST by SunkenCiv (www.tapatalk.com/groups/godsgravesglyphs/, forum.darwincentral.org, www.gopbriefingroom.com)
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After the war, King George III rationalized that Washington would become a dictator and make the Americans yearn for royal rule. When he was told that Washington planned to resign his commission, the monarch gasped: "If he does that ... he will be the greatest man in the world."
That's right, [characterization omitted].

16 posted on 03/06/2018 10:25:40 PM PST by SunkenCiv (www.tapatalk.com/groups/godsgravesglyphs/, forum.darwincentral.org, www.gopbriefingroom.com)
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To: commonasdirt
No Jew signed the DoI, in some states they were not allowed to hold office so they could not represent their colony/state.

Of the 56 Signers, there was only ONE Catholic, and he was from the Catholic colony, Maryland. He also was the last surviving Signer, Charles Carroll.

17 posted on 03/06/2018 10:41:50 PM PST by Pharmboy (Democrats lie because they must.)
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To: buffyt

72


18 posted on 03/06/2018 11:11:59 PM PST by Pelham (California, a subsidiary of Mexico, Inc.)
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To: nickcarraway

Conversely, both John Adams and Thomas Jefferson died on the July 4th, in 1826.


19 posted on 03/06/2018 11:31:10 PM PST by Bratch ("The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing." - Edmund Burke)
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To: nickcarraway

There were similar “tea parties” in coastal cities all along the Atlantic Seaboard.


20 posted on 03/07/2018 1:38:49 AM PST by ZULU (Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts. - WC)
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