# 245th Anniversary of the Fourth of July? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [July 4, 2021, 7:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/245th-anniversary-of-the-fourth-of-july/945673 "2021-07-04T19:22:24Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Jim\_B](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jim_b/32/4338_2.png) [@Jim\_B](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jim_B)\ **Post date:** [July 4, 2021, 7:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/245th-anniversary-of-the-fourth-of-july/945673/1 "2021-07-04T19:22:24Z")
Today is the 245th anniversary of the fourth of July. (I was about to put this in MPSIMS. But my post comes with a couple of related questions.) You know 2001 was the 225th anniversary. I always wondered why they didn’t do something special then. It was just before 9-11 too. So we’d all remember it as a more innocent time too. Ah, well. Also you know in just five short years it’ll be our Sestercentennial (250-some guy on another message board was nice enough to tell me). Are we going to do something special then? I wonder, because I kinda feel like I got cheated out of the Bicentennial. Here it is: true story, I was just turned 8. And everyone was making a big deal about it. Watch the tall ships on TV, they told me. I didn’t even know what tall ships were. Then it was all over. And I was riding in the car with my family (I remember). I somehow missed it all, I felt. Well, will I live to see the Tricentennial, I asked? Sure, if you live to be a hundred and eight, they told me. Anyway, I don’t know if I should tell you all this. But almost everyone on my mother’s side of the family came down with dementia, when they got to that age range. So I don’t know what condition I’ll be in, if I live to be 108. So what about the Sestercentennial? Will they do anything special? I know from what I heard, they did for the Sesquicentennial (150th, i.e., 1926 [my grandparents were there 🙂]). Well? Tell me, cause I really want to know 🙂 . ---
**Author:** ![Elmer\_J.Fudd](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/elmer_j.fudd/32/1211_2.png) [@Elmer\_J.Fudd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elmer_J.Fudd)\ **Post date:** [July 4, 2021, 7:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/245th-anniversary-of-the-fourth-of-july/945673/2 "2021-07-04T19:27:55Z")
> [@Jim\_B](#): > > So what about the Sestercentennial? Will they do anything special? Well, another name for it is “quarter millennial” so, maybe…redesign the quarter again? ---
**Author:** ![Siam\_Sam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d78d45/32.png) [@Siam\_Sam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siam_Sam)\ **Post date:** [July 4, 2021, 8:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/245th-anniversary-of-the-fourth-of-july/945673/3 "2021-07-04T20:27:39Z")
Maybe the mattress sales will offer even more savings than usual. ---
**Author:** ![Thudlow\_Boink](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thudlow_boink/32/320_2.png) [@Thudlow\_Boink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Thudlow_Boink)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2021, 1:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/245th-anniversary-of-the-fourth-of-july/945673/4 "2021-07-05T01:24:06Z")
> [@Jim\_B](#): > > Today is the 245th anniversary of the fourth of July. Must’ve been weird back in 1775, when there wasn’t a day between the third of July and the fifth of July. ---
**Author:** ![UltraVires](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/ecccb3/32.png) [@UltraVires](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/UltraVires)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2021, 2:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/245th-anniversary-of-the-fourth-of-july/945673/5 "2021-07-05T02:06:16Z")
And they still don’t have one in England. ---
**Author:** ![asterion](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/4da419/32.png) [@asterion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/asterion)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2021, 2:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/245th-anniversary-of-the-fourth-of-july/945673/6 "2021-07-05T02:07:53Z")
> [@Elmer\_J.Fudd](#): > > Well, another name for it is “quarter millennial” so, maybe…redesign the quarter again? Great, something else the media will try to blame Millennials for. ---
**Author:** ![Senegoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/senegoid/32/6606_2.png) [@Senegoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Senegoid)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2021, 4:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/245th-anniversary-of-the-fourth-of-july/945673/7 "2021-07-05T04:17:25Z")
Actually, there’s been a fourth day in July for rather more than 2000 years now.