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The Washington Post
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Today, July 2, marks 250 years since the Second Continental Congress passed a resolution formally severing ties with Britain and establishing the 13 colonies as “free and independent States.”
Here's why July Fourth, not the second, came to be regarded as “Independence Day”:
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