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We re wishing everyone a wonderful Independence Day celebrating America s founding. Author: WLTX Updated: 12:02 AM EDT July 4, 2021 COLUMBIA, S.C. Happy July 4th from News19! The holiday, of course, commemorates the adoption of the Declaration of Independence, which formally split the United States from Britain. The legal separation of the Thirteen Colonies from Great Britain actually occurred on July 2, 1776, when the Second Continental Congress voted to approve a resolution of independence that had been proposed in June by Richard Henry Lee of Virginia. (Founding father John Adams believed that it would be July 2nd that would forever be the day remembered by Americans with celebrations and fireworks. But alas.)

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