Hari Kemerdekaan (Amerika Serikat)
Hari Kemerdekaan Amerika Serikat ("Independence Day" atau "Fourth of July") adalah hari libur federal setiap tanggal 4 Juli di Amerika Serikat untuk memperingati disahkannya Deklarasi Kemerdekaan oleh Kongres Kontinental Kedua pada 4 Juli 1776. Deklarasi tersebut merupakan proklamasi kemerdekaan Tiga Belas Koloni dari Kerajaan Britania Raya. Hari Kemerdekaan AS dirayakan dengan pesta kembang api, parade, barbekyu, karnaval, piknik, konser, pertandingan bisbol, pidato politik, serta berbagai kegiatan dan upacara resmi yang berkaitan dengan sejarah, pemerintahan, dan tradisi Amerika Serikat.
Proclamation of Emancipation
Now, therefore, I, Abraham Lincoln, President of the United
States, by virtue of the power in me vested as Commander-In-Chief
of the Army and Navy of the United States in time of actual armed
rebellion against the authority and government of the United States,
and as a fit and necessary war measure for supressing said
rebellion, do, on this 1st day of January, A.D. 1863, and in
accordance with my purpose so to do, publicly proclaimed for the
full period of one hundred days from the first day above mentioned,
order and designate as the States and parts of States wherein the
people thereof, respectively, are this day in rebellion against
the United States the following, to wit: