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New York's 4th congressional district is a congressional district for the United States House of Representatives in central and southern Nassau County, represented by Republican Anthony D'Esposito since 2023. NY-04 is the second-wealthiest congressional district in New York, and among the wealthiest nationally. [4]
July 4, 1962: The Mercury astronauts at the Houston Coliseum barbecue. Houston welcomed the Mercury astronauts with its Fourth of July parade, followed by a barbecue at the Sam Houston Coliseum featuring a performance by burlesque dancer Sally Rand. This event would form the basis of a major set piece in Tom Wolfe's 1979 book The Right Stuff.
New York's Federal Procession. New York's Federal Procession was organized by Richard Platt, the Chairman of the Committee of Arrangements. News of New Hampshire's ratification was sent to Poughkeepsie, seat of New York's ratification convention, and reached New York City on 25 June 1788.
Pyro Spectacular by Souza is currently one of the largest pyrotechnics companies in the world, producing shows for events like the Olympics, Super Bowl, World Cup, World Series, and Macy's Fourth of July Fireworks Spectacular. They also produce pyrotechnics and fireworks for cinema, music videos, and touring musical acts.
Ancient and Horribles Parade, founded in 1926, is a nationally known Fourth of July parade on U.S. Route 44 (Putnam Pike) in the village of Chepachet, Rhode Island, in the town of Glocester. Parades of horribles were a New England tradition dating back prior to the 1870s or earlier in various small towns across New England.
One month before the Woodstock Festival rock concert was to take place, the zoning board of the town of Wallkill, New York, banned Woodstock Ventures from using land that the organizers had leased and had cleared. [73] The legendary rock concert would take place instead at a farm near Bethel, New York, 40 miles (64 km) away. [74]
The Philippine Independence Day Parade or Philippine Day Parade in New York City, the world's largest outside Manila, [1] takes place annually in the United States along Madison Avenue in Midtown Manhattan. The parade is held on the first Sunday in June.
Philippines Independence Proclaimed, July 4, 1946. Initially, the nation's Independence Day holiday (Araw ng Kalayaan) was held on July 4. President Diosdado Macapagal moved it to June 12, the date in 1898 on which Emilio Aguinaldo issued the Philippine Declaration of Independence from Spain.