The Army pulled off a sweeping affair featuring more than 6,000 soldiers, 50 aircraft, and fireworks to cap the event highlighting its 250th anniversary.

Approximately 5 million turned out against Trump at the "No Kings" protests; turnout for Trump's military parade appeared to be in the thousands.

Heart guitarist Nancy Wilson has made public her distaste at what she says was the unauthorised usage of the Seattle band's 1977 hit single Barracuda during the military parade staged in Washington D.C. to celebrate the U.S. Army's 250th anniversary, on what just happened to be, by coincidence, Donald Trump's 79th birthday.

Coinciding with Trump's 79th birthday, the parade will feature tanks, bands and thousands of troops in honor of the Army’s 250th anniversary celebration.

Despite the parade, overall travel demand to Washington D.C. remains steady this weekend. Here's what travelers should know.

WASHINGTON (7News) — A military parade celebrated the Army's 250th in Washington D.C., with thousands of people in attendance. Aside from the parade, there was also concert and fireworks as part of the celebration. The celebration also coincides with President Donald Trump’s 79th birthday, National Flag Day, and the Army’s 250th anniversary.

Uncategorized Saturday’s military parade, which celebrated the U.S. Army’s 250th anniversary and held on President Donald Trump’s 79th birthday, featured fireworks, tanks, military flyovers and a surfeit of red,

The day marks the end of slavery in the US, two years after President Abraham Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation in 1863. On June 19, 1865, Union General Gordon Granger arrived in Galveston, Texas and informed enslaved African Americans that they were free.