California Governor Gavin Newsom warned the citizens of his state that he was declaring fireworks “illegal” and that they were not to set them off on July 4th.
The people of California shot back with the most incredible display of a flood of fireworks as far as the eye can see in LA County:
“It ought to be commemorated, as the Day of Deliverance by solemn Acts of Devotion to God Almighty. It ought to be solemnized with Pomp and Parade, with Shews, Games, Sports, Guns, Bells, Bonfires and Illuminations from one End of this Continent to the other from this Time forward forevermore.” – John Adams