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Happy Fourth of July!

  • July 4, 2012
  • By KIDS DISCOVER

Representatives from the 13 colonies voted to become independent from England on July 2, 1776, and adopted the Declaration of Independence two days later. But no one actually signed it until August 2 — when John Hancock added his famously huge signature to the document.

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