Happy … Second of July?
Independence Day, wrote John Adams in a letter to his wife in 1776, should be celebrated July 2 — the day the Continental Congress voted in favor of it.
So why don’t we celebrate today? July 4 was when it was formally adopted. It’s also the date John Adams, as well as the Declaration of Independence’s primary author, Thomas Jefferson, died.
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