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Dan Gall
Jul 4, 2017, 7:50:02 AM7/4/17
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July 4, 1776
On this day in 1776, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, the Continental
Congress adopts the Declaration of Independence, which proclaims the
independence of a new United States of America from Great Britain and
its king. The declaration came 442 days after the first shots of the
American Revolution were fired at Lexington and Concord in Massachusetts
and marked an ideological expansion of the conflict that would
eventually involve France’s intervention on behalf of the Americans.
July 4, 1917
On July 4, 1917, the day on which the United States celebrates its
independence, U.S. troops make their first public display of World War
I, marching through the streets of Paris to the grave of the Marquis de
Lafayette, a French aristocrat and hero of the American Revolutionary War.
July 4 1997
After traveling 120 million miles in seven months, NASA’s Mars
Pathfinder becomes the first U.S. spacecraft to land on Mars in more
than two decades. In an ingenious, cost-saving landing procedure,
Pathfinder used parachutes to slow its approach to the Martian surface
and then deployed airbags to cushion its impact. Colliding with the Ares
Vallis floodplain at 40 miles an hour, the spacecraft bounced high into
the Martian atmosphere 16 times before safely coming to rest
*****
Thought of the Day
The United States Congress, like a lot of rich people, lives in two houses.
John Green
*****
Question of the Day
Who was the first Vice President of the United States?
What is the height range of Banana plants?
Answer
From 'Dwarf Cavendish' plants at around 3 m (10 ft) to 'Gros Michel' at
7 m (23 ft) or more
On this day in 1776, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, the Continental
Congress adopts the Declaration of Independence, which proclaims the
independence of a new United States of America from Great Britain and
its king. The declaration came 442 days after the first shots of the
American Revolution were fired at Lexington and Concord in Massachusetts
and marked an ideological expansion of the conflict that would
eventually involve France’s intervention on behalf of the Americans.
July 4, 1917
On July 4, 1917, the day on which the United States celebrates its
independence, U.S. troops make their first public display of World War
I, marching through the streets of Paris to the grave of the Marquis de
Lafayette, a French aristocrat and hero of the American Revolutionary War.
July 4 1997
After traveling 120 million miles in seven months, NASA’s Mars
Pathfinder becomes the first U.S. spacecraft to land on Mars in more
than two decades. In an ingenious, cost-saving landing procedure,
Pathfinder used parachutes to slow its approach to the Martian surface
and then deployed airbags to cushion its impact. Colliding with the Ares
Vallis floodplain at 40 miles an hour, the spacecraft bounced high into
the Martian atmosphere 16 times before safely coming to rest
*****
Thought of the Day
The United States Congress, like a lot of rich people, lives in two houses.
John Green
*****
Question of the Day
Who was the first Vice President of the United States?
What is the height range of Banana plants?
Answer
From 'Dwarf Cavendish' plants at around 3 m (10 ft) to 'Gros Michel' at
7 m (23 ft) or more
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