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Over the past 250 years, Americans have commemorated Independence Day with festivals, barbecues, music and fireworks.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 22, 2026

For the last nine years, tens of thousands of communities and groups have commemorated the National Day of Racial Healing and they will do so again on Tuesday, January 21, 2025.

From Salon • Jan. 20, 2025

Documentaries, plays, books, scholarly papers, exhibits and even a postage stamp have commemorated it.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 20, 2024

A Bulgarian delegation was expected to arrive later on Saturday, in what would be the first time since 2019 that officials from both countries have commemorated Delcev together.

From Reuters • Feb. 4, 2023

As my honoured father mentioned in these commentaries the time of his first using the razor, in humble emulation of him I have commemorated the same circumstance regarding myself.

From Rulers of India: Akbar by Malleson, George Bruce