July 4th is:
Sidewalk Egg Frying Day
National Country Music Day
Independence From Meat Day
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National Barbecued Spareribs Day
National Holidays from Around the World
Cayman Islands – Constitution Day
Columbia – Feast of St. Peter and St. Paul
Guam – Independence Day (U.S.)
Philippines – Philippine Republic Day
Puerto Rico – Independence Day (U.S.)
Rwanda – Liberation Day
South Sudan – Mother’s Day
Tonga – Birth of His Majesty King Tupou VI
United States – 4th of July/Independence Day
U.S. Virgin Islands – Independence Day (U.S.)
On This Day in HISTORY
1054 – Chinese and Arab observers record supernova – remnants form Crab Nebula
1776 – Continental Congress adopts Declaration of Independence
1817 – Erie Canal Construction begins, to connect Lake Erie with the Hudson River
1826 – Thomas Jefferson and John Adams die on the same day
1827 – Slavery is abolished in New York state
1855 – Walt Whitman’s Leaves of Grass is published
1903 – Dorothy Levitt becomes first English woman to compete in a ‘motor race’
1966 – LBJ signs Freedom of Information Act into law
1969 – The Rolling Stones U.K. release of “Honky Talk Women”
I met a gin soaked, bar-room queen in Memphis,
She tried to take me upstairs for a ride.
She had to heave me right across her shoulder
‘Cause I just can’t seem to drink you off my mind.
It’s the honky tonk women
Gimme, gimme, gimme the honky tonk blues.
I laid a divorcee in New York City,
I had to put up some kind of a fight.
The lady then she covered me with roses,
She blew my nose and then she blew my mind.
It’s the honky tonk women
Gimme, gimme, gimme the honky tonk blues.
It’s the honky tonk women.
Gimme, gimme, gimme the honky tonk blues.
It’s the honky tonk women.
Gimme, gimme, gimme the honky tonk blues