Church bells (possibly including the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liberty_Bell" id="mwXA" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Liberty Bell">Liberty Bell</a>) are rung after <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Nixon_(financier)" id="mwXQ" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="John Nixon (financier)">John Nixon</a> delivers the first public reading of the <a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Declaration_of_Independence_of_the_United_States" id="mwXg" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Declaration of Independence of the United States">Declaration of Independence of the United States</a>.