Independence Day is annually celebrated on July 4 and is often known as the Fourth of July. Patriotic displays and family events are organized throughout the United States. The day commemorates the passage of the Declaration of Independence by the Continental Congress in 1776, according to Britannica.
In New York, 65,000 fireworks shells have been loaded onto five barges to shoot off at nightfall. The Fourth of July is celebrated as America’s Independence Day in observance of July 4, 1776, when representatives from the 13 colonies that became the United States approved the historic Declaration of Independence, a grand announcement of the colonies’ self-declared independence from England. “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness,” the country’s founding fathers wrote in the Declaration of Independence. During the later 20th century, the day remained a national holiday with parades, concerts of patriotic music, fireworks display and the day declined in significance as a venue for politics.
In its 245th year, America continues to struggle with inequalities based on race and gender, but officials often say, it is striving for “a more perfect union.”
