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When Major League Baseball released a line of hats fashioned to resemble team mascots, a writer for Yahoo! Sports observed that the league had "wisely passed over fashioning Chief Wahoo into a polyester conversation piece". [48] Although Chief Wahoo was the logo for the Cleveland Indians, the official team mascot is a character named Slider.
4th of July traditions: Fireworks, barbecues, and more. Many modern Independence Day traditions stem from America’s early independence celebrations.
Held since 1785, the Bristol Fourth of July Parade in Bristol, Rhode Island, is the oldest continuous Independence Day celebration in the United States. [38] Since 1868, Seward, Nebraska, has held a celebration on the same town square. In 1979 Seward was designated "America's Official Fourth of July City-Small Town USA" by resolution of Congress.
He drives around in the Cosmobile, a van retrofitted for Cosmo's active lifestyle, and also owns a go-cart. In 2020, Cosmo won the Sirius XM Mascot Bracket Championship and was named National Champion of Mascots. [6] [7] Cosmo at the 2006 Fourth of July parade in Provo
3. Malia Obama (1998), daughter of former U.S. President Barack Obama. Seems fitting for the daughter of a former president to be born on the most patriotic of U.S. holidays, the 4th of July!
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."
5. Jack. Jack in the Box. Jack I. Box — the spherically endowed mascot for the primarily West Coast-based fast food chain — was launched in 1994, but his history goes back a little farther.
The first Macy's fireworks show in New York City was held on July 1, 1958 to celebrate the department store's 100th anniversary. [2] In 1976, Macy's partnered with The Walt Disney Company to hold a fireworks display in honor of the United States' bicentennial, leading to the show becoming an annual tradition.