Independence Day is the appropriate date as a symbolical reminder of the American article of faith that governments are instituted among men to secure to them certain inalienable rights, the first of which is life, and when any government becomes subversive of that end, it is the right of the people to alter or abolish it.

The Independence Day celebration will be properly observed with a big military and civic parade from West Warwick to the Greene Homestead in Anthony ; ;

* 15 August is Indian Independence Day since 1947.

* 14 August is Pakistan's Independence Day since 1947.

* Independence Day, celebrates the independence of Moldova from the USSR in 1991.

* Independence Day, celebrates the independence of Bolivia from Spain in 1825.

* Independence Day, celebrates the independence of Jamaica from the United Kingdom in 1962.

* Independence Day, celebrates the independence of Central African Republic from France in 1960.

* Independence Day, celebrates the independence of Niger from France in 1960.

* Independence Day, celebrates the day on which Pakistan was made an independent country based on border lines created by the British during the end of their rule of India in 1947.

* Independence Day, celebrates the independence of the Republic of the Congo from France in 1960.

* Independence Day of India, celebrates the independence of India from the United Kingdom in 1947.

* Independence Day, celebrates the independence of Gabon from France in 1960.

* Independence Day, celebrates the proclamation of Indonesia's independence from Japan in 1945.

* Independence Day, commemorates the Treaty of Rawalpindi in 1919, granting independence from Britain.

* Independence Day, celebrates the independence of Uruguay from Brazil in 1825.

* Independence Day, celebrates the independence of Kyrgyzstan from the Soviet Union in 1991

* Independence Day, celebrates the independence of Malaysia from the United Kingdom in 1957.

* Independence Day, celebrates the independence of Trinidad and Tobago from the United Kingdom in 1962.

* Independence Day, celebrates the independence of Zimbabwe from United Kingdom in 1980.

* Independence Day ( Conch Republic, Key West, Florida )

* Independence Day, celebrates the independence of Burkina Faso from France in 1960.

Since 1975, Niger has celebrated Arbor Day as part of its Independence Day: 3 August.

* Independence Day, celebrates the independence of Chad from France in 1960.

New Englanders were a bit sensitive on the subject of their complicity in Negro slavery at the time of the drafting of the Declaration of Independence, as Jefferson explained in his `` Autobiography '': ``

In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the State to be affixed this 21st day of April, in the year of Our Lord, one thousand nine hundred and sixty-one and on Independence, the one hundred and eighty-fifth.

In fiscal year 1959, the Medical Museum was moved to Chase Hall, a temporary building on Independence Avenue at Ninth Street, Southwest, and continued to display to the public the achievements of the Armed Forces Medical Services.

An essay on `` Freedom '' written at 10 years of age quoted the Declaration of Independence, the freedom given to slaves in Canada, and the views of George Washington.

As early as the 1850s, a time when most political rhetoric focused on the sanctity of the Constitution, Lincoln redirected emphasis to the Declaration of Independence as the foundation of American political values — what he called the " sheet anchor " of republicanism.

* Indian Independence day on August 15

* Pakistan's Independence day on August 14

The Declaration of Independence refers to " unanimous Declaration of the thirteen united States of America " adopted by the " Representatives of the united States of America " on July 4, 1776.

* Declaration of Independence of Quito, proclaimed independence from Spain on August 10, 1809, but failed with the execution of all the conspirators of the movement on August 2, 1810.

Independence finally occurred on May 24, 1822 at the Battle of Pichincha.

In 1831, Pike left Massachusetts to travel west, first stopping in St. Louis and later moving on to Independence, Missouri.

Sales also are prohibited on Memorial Day, Independence Day, Labor Day, Thanksgiving Day, and Christmas Day.

The British Army suffered defeat in the American War of Independence, losing the Thirteen Colonies but holding on to Canada.

In the same month the Irish Republican Army began the Irish War of Independence, a guerrilla campaign against British rule ; in 1919 this consisted of attacks on the Royal Irish Constabulary ( RIC ).

Cartagena de Indias established a junta on May 22, 1810, followed others, including the viceregal capital, Bogotá, on July 20 ( today Colombia's Independence Day ).

This lasted nearly three centuries, until a rebellion ( which followed closely on the heels of the Mexican War of Independence ) in 1821.

John Calvin Coolidge, Jr., was born in Plymouth Notch, Windsor County, Vermont, on July 4, 1872, the only U. S. President to be born on Independence Day.

Costumes may serve to portray various other characters during secular holidays, such as an Uncle Sam costume worn on the Independence day for example.

" Anticipating the Declaration of Independence, Patriot leaders Thomas McKean and Caesar Rodney convinced the Colonial Assembly to declare itself separated from British and Pennsylvania rule on June 15, 1776.

The Belgian Government made no effort to train Congolese commissioned officers until the very end of the Colonial period and there were only about 20 African cadets in training on the eve of Independence.