{"id":5914,"date":"2026-07-03T00:59:00","date_gmt":"2026-07-03T04:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=5914"},"modified":"2025-12-14T00:32:56","modified_gmt":"2025-12-14T05:32:56","slug":"birthdays-242","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=5914","title":{"rendered":"Birthdays"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Samuel de Champlain<\/strong> (born Brouage, France, 1567; died Quebec, Canada, 1635) has been called the \u201cFather of New France.\u201d He left France in 1603 to find the Northwest Passage. He did explore the St. Lawrence River and traveled as far as Niagara Falls. In 1608 he founded a fur trading post on the St. Lawrence River and named it Quebec. Over the years he explored more of the region and became good friends with the Algonquin and Huron Indians. He found Lake Champlain and named it after himself.<\/p>\n<p><strong>George M. Cohan<\/strong> (born Providence, Rhode Island, 1878; died New York, New York, November 5, 1942) was an important actor, writer, and producer of American theater. He wrote about forty plays and musicals. However, he is most famous for his songs, including \u201cGive My Regards to Broadway\u201d and \u201cI\u2019m a Yankee Doodle Dandy.\u201d Children can learn more at: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.americaslibrary.gov\/jb\/gilded\/jb_gilded_cohan_1.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">George M. Cohan<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Samuel Huntington<\/strong> (born Windham, Connecticut, 1731; died Norwich, Connecticut, January 5, 1796) was president of the Continental Congress and signer of the Declaration of Independence, representing Connecticut. He was also the third governor of Connecticut. He stated in a letter to George Washington, \u201cI will always love my Country.\u201d Children could learn more at: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nps.gov\/parkhistory\/online_books\/declaration\/bio23.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Samuel Huntington<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Samuel de Champlain (born Brouage, France, 1567; died Quebec, Canada, 1635) has been called the \u201cFather of New France.\u201d He left France in 1603 to find the Northwest Passage. He did explore the St. Lawrence River and traveled as far as Niagara Falls. In 1608 he founded a fur trading post on the St. Lawrence <a href='https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=5914' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[536,5677,535,537],"class_list":["post-5914","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-birthdays","tag-george-m-cohan","tag-july-3","tag-samuel-de-champlain","tag-samuel-huntington","category-4-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5914","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5914"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5914\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27729,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5914\/revisions\/27729"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5914"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5914"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5914"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}