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Wednesday 5 July 2017

US celebrates July Fourth with parades, picnics, fireworks

Continued from Page 3 both cities say there are no
confirmed threats.
Major League Baseball In a somber observance of
aims to build interest in the the toll of terror, small Amer-
sport in Britain and Europe, ican flags were placed by
despite the region’s long- all the nearly 3,000 names
standing preference for on the National Sept. 11
soccer. Memorial in New York on
Charlie Hill, the managing Tuesday morning.
director of Major League
Baseball for Europe, said TRADITIONAL ATLANTA
the Independence Day ROAD RACE DRAW 65k
exhibition is an attempt to Tens of thousands of ama-
“lay down roots” in Britain. teur runners in Atlanta have
He says it’s possible that celebrated the Fourth of
some official games will be July by trailing after an elite
played in London during band of professionals in the
the 2019 season. city’s annual 10-K race.
Meanwhile, Denmark host- Organizers of the AJC
ed the Rebild Festival, con- Peachtree Road Race say
sidered one of the largest more than 55,000 runners
Fourth of July celebrations took part Tuesday morning
Joey Chestnut wins the Nathan’s Famous Hot Dog Eating Contest, marking his 10th victory in the outside the United States. in hot, humid weather un-
event, Tuesday, July 4, 2017, in the Brooklyn borough of New York. He downed 72 hot dogs and Danish Foreign Minister An- der clear skies.
buns in 10 minutes. ders Samuelsen — who re-
(AP Photo/Bebeto Matthews)
cently tweeted that Trump DAYLONG PARTY IN PHILLY
“should tighten up, focus In Philadelphia, where
on the struggle for freedom the Founding Fathers ap-
and show respect for the proved the Declaration of
presidency” in response to Independence on July 4,
Trump’s own Twitter habit 1776, a daylong national
— told festival-goers that birthday party is taking
“when you are friends, you place.
have the right to criticize.” At a celebration of free-
Samuelsen added, how- dom ceremony at Inde-
ever, that it is “impossible” pendence Hall on Tuesday
to live without the United morning, members of Boyz
States. II Men read excerpts from
the document, and a pa-
SECURING CELEBRATIONS rade was held through the
The New York Police De- city’s historic area. Descen-
partment plans to station dants of some of the sign-
100 vehicles to block in- ers of the Declaration were
tersections and 20 sand- to take part in the annual
filled sanitation trucks to ceremonial tapping of the
fortify viewing areas for Liberty Bell later Tuesday.
the Macy’s fireworks show. Then, hundreds of thou-
Heavily armed counter- sands were expected to
terrorism units will mingle attend a party on the Ben-
among spectators, officers jamin Franklin Parkway with
will have portable radia- hours of free music capped
tion detection devices and by a concert by Mary J.
bomb-sniffing dogs, and Blige and ending with the
officers will be stationed on annual fireworks display.
rooftops to look out for any
sign of trouble. FATAL FIREWORKS
Boston police also plan to Officials say an Indiana
put trucks and other heavy man has died in Ken-
equipment near the cel- tucky after a fireworks
ebration there. Police in accident.q