Kanye West tweeted on the Fourth of July he’ll run for president using the hashtag #2020Vision. Both his wife, Kim Kardashian West, and entrepreneur Elon Musk have endorsed him.
This is the second time he’s claimed he’s running for the White House. The last being the 2015 MTV Video Music Awards when he said he’d run in 2020. Then, however, he pushed the date back saying he’d run in 2024.
The pubs in England are opening for the first time on Saturday July 4th (it’s Wednesday, July 15th for Scotland and Monday, July 20th for the Republic of Ireland). And Weatherspoon’s are in the news for increasing prices on drinks by roughly 10p and on food by 20p per meal.
They’ve implemented 9 rules for customers:
Known as Independence Day in the United States for commemorating the Declaration of Independence in 1776.
Whilst the legal separation of the thirteen colonies from Great Britain in 1776 actually happened on July 2nd, the wording of the Declaration was finally approved two days later on July 4th.
In the UK, pubs opened up for the first time since lockdown took place.
Alexander Hamilton was born on January 11th 1755 (or 1757 – it’s unclear what year) in Charlestown, Nevis (a small island in the Caribbean Sea and part of the West Indies).
He was sent to New York in his teens to pursue his education at King’s College (now Columbia). He took an early role in the militia as the American Revolutionary War began. In 1777, he became a senior aide to General Washington running the new Continental Army. He then practiced law, founded the Bank of New York and then entered politics.
He helped ratify the Constitution by writing the majority of The Federalist Papers and was active ending the legality of the international slave trade. He campaigned against Vice President Burr for governor of New York State in 1804 and, after taking offense, Burr challenged him to a duel. Burr shot and mortally wounded him and Hamilton died on July 12th 1804 of a gunshot wound aged 47 or 49 in Greenwich Village, New York.