Canadian folk singer Gordon Lightfoot releases a ballad tribute song to sunken freighter Edmund Fitzgerald, called “The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald.”
Dale Earnhardt, Jr. wins the Pepsi 400 race at Daytona International Speedway, Florida.
This is an emotional win, as his father was killed on this track just three months ago.
Michael Waltrip, who won that fateful Daytona 500 in February, places second today.
Continental Congress HAS SIGNED A DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE!
The UNITED STATES are OFFICIALLY INDEPENDENT from BRITAIN.
LIBERTY BELLS ring out throughout Philadelphia; the streets ERUPT IN ECSTASY.
After South Carolina reverses its position, Continental Congress votes to declare INDEPENDENCE from Britain, adopting a legal separation from the Crown.
Charles Thomson, Secretary for Continental Congress, uses hash marks to note how many colonies voted for the severance from the Crown.
John Adams writes in a letter to his wife, Abigail, that “the second day of July, 1776 will be the most memorable epoch in American history.”
But although newspapers report the independence, no mass celebrations break out.
.@DaleCoyneRacing will run its No. 18 car in tomorrow's Indy 500 with the same font that Kyle Busch used for years @JoeGibbsRacing to pay respect to the NASCAR legend.
➡️ DCR said that @TownsendBell had the idea and that @FOXSports and JGR helped assist on the effort.
Yeah. That empty feeling and being in a surreal dream like state where you’re sure you’ll wake up any minute now and it’ll just all go back to normal. He was such a critical part of the sport in all three divisions and now it just kind of ends and you never saw it coming.