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Coverage of events on July 4 airs on NBC Channel 10 & Telemundo Canal 62. Fireworks over the Art Museum as the Welcome America Festival wrapped up in 2017. The 16-day festival features multicultural and multigenerational events, including free concerts, fireworks displays, block parties, a parade, and educational activities.
While in Philadelphia on July 6, 1976, Queen Elizabeth presented the Bicentennial Bell on behalf of the British people. The bell is a replica of the Liberty Bell, cast at the same foundry—Whitechapel Bell Foundry—and bearing the inscription "For the People of the United States of America from the People of Britain 4 July 1976 LET FREEDOM RING."
The Annual Reminders were a series of early pickets organized by gay organizations, held yearly from 1965 through 1969. The Reminder took place each July 4 at Independence Hall in Philadelphia and were among the earliest LGBT demonstrations in the United States.
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PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Philadelphia officials are expecting a huge turnout of fans in the city Friday for a parade honoring the Philadelphia Eagles after their Super Bowl win. The team plans to descend the Rocky steps of the Philadelphia Museum of Art at around 2 p.m. for a 75-minute ceremony, city leaders said at a Tuesday press conference.
Broad Street often serves as the main parade route for Philadelphia sports championship parades, most recently for the Eagles Super Bowl LIX victory. During the Phillies 2008 World Series victory parade, an estimated two million people lined Broad Street. [15] The largest gathering for a championship parade was for the Philadelphia Flyers in 1974.
This year’s parade is scheduled for 10 a.m. Monday, July 4. The parade will begin at Wilmore Elementary School, travel downtown up East Main Street and turn right on Lexington Avenue.
The Liberty Bell, previously called the State House Bell or Old State House Bell, is an iconic symbol of American independence located in Philadelphia. Originally placed in the steeple of Pennsylvania State House, now known as Independence Hall, the Liberty Bell today is located across the street from Independence Hall in the Liberty Bell Center in Independence National Historical Park.