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Born on the Fourth of July

  • July 4, 2014
  • By KIDS DISCOVER

Happy Independence Day! Calvin Coolidge was the only U.S. President born on July 4 (in 1872). He was also the only one sworn in by his own father, a notary public. Cal was vice president and at home on a visit when President Warren G. Harding died suddenly on August 2, 1923.

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