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Independence
Day, commonly known as the Fourth of July,
is a federal holiday in the United States
commemorating the adoption of the Declaration
of Independence on July 4, 1776, declaring
independence from the Kingdom of Great Britain.
Independence Day is commonly associated
with fireworks, parades, barbecues, carnivals,
fairs, picnics, concerts, baseball games,
family reunions, political speeches and
ceremonies, and various other public and
private events celebrating the history,
government, and traditions of the United
States. Independence Day is the national
day of the United States.
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In San Francisco
Bay, Fisherman’s Wharf and Pier 39 celebrate
Independence Day with live music and entertainment
all day in front of Pier 39. San Francisco
Bay is a shallow, productive estuary through
which water draining from approximately
forty percent of California, flowing in
the Sacramento and San Joaquin rivers from
the Sierra Nevada mountains, enters the
Pacific Ocean. Specifically, both rivers
flow into Suisun Bay, which flows through
the Carquinez Strait to meet with the Napa
River at the entrance to San Pablo Bay,
which connects at its south end to San Francisco
Bay. However, the entire group of interconnected
bays is often referred to as the “San Francisco
Bay”.
San Francisco
Bay is located in the U.S. state of California,
surrounded by a contiguous region known
as the San Francisco Bay Area (often simply "the
Bay Area"), dominated by the large
cities San Francisco, Oakland, and San Jose.
The waterway entrance to San Francisco Bay
from the Pacific Ocean is called Golden
Gate. Across the strait spans the Golden
Gate Bridge. San Francisco Bay is thought
to represent a down-warping of the Earth's
crust between the San Andreas Fault to the
west and the Hayward Fault to the east,
though the precise nature of this remains
under study. During the last ice age, the
basin now filled by the bay was a large
linear valley with small hills, similar
to most of the valleys of the Coast Ranges.
The rivers of the Central Valley ran out
to sea through a canyon that is now the
Golden Gate. As the great ice sheets melted,
sea level rose 300 feet (91 m) over 4,000
years, and the valley filled with water
from the Pacific, becoming a bay. The small
hills became islands.
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