sábado, 2 de julio de 2011

On This Day: July 2

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On July 2, 1937, aviator Amelia Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan disappeared over the Pacific Ocean while attempting to make the first round-the-world flight at the equator.
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On July 2, 1908, Thurgood Marshall, the leader of the legal battle against segregated schools and the first black member of the U.S. Supreme Court, was born. Following his death on Jan. 24, 1993, his obituary appeared in The Times.

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On This Date

1776	The Continental Congress passed a resolution that "these United Colonies are, and of right, ought to be, Free and Independent States."
1881	President James A. Garfield was fatally shot by Charles J. Guiteau at the Washington railroad station. (Garfield died on Sept. 19.)
1890	Congress passed the Sherman Antitrust Act.
1932	Democrats nominated New York Gov. Franklin D. Roosevelt for president at their convention in Chicago.
1937	Aviator Amelia Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan disappeared over the Pacific Ocean while attempting to make the first around-the-world flight at the equator.
1947	An object that the Army Air Force later said was a weather balloon crashed near Roswell, N.M. Eyewitness accounts gave rise to speculation it might have been an alien spacecraft.
1961	Author Ernest Hemingway, 61, shot himself to death at his home in Ketchum, Idaho.
1964	President Lyndon B. Johnson signed into law a sweeping civil rights bill.
1976	The Supreme Court ruled the death penalty was not inherently cruel or unusual.
2003	President George W. Bush promised to deal harshly with those who attack American troops in Iraq, saying "bring them on."
2007	President George W. Bush commuted the sentence of former aide I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby, sparing him from a two-and-half-year prison term in the CIA leak case.

Current Birthdays

Actress Lindsay Lohan turns 25 years old today.

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Figure skater Johnny Weir turns 27 years old today.

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1923	Wislawa Szymborska, Nobel Prize-winning poet, turns 88
1931	Robert Ito, Actor ("Quincy"), turns 80
1937	Polly Holliday, Actress ("Alice"), turns 74
1937	Richard Petty, Auto racer, turns 74
1939	John Sununu, Former White House chief of staff, turns 72
1947	Larry David, Writer-director ("Curb Your Enthusiasm," "Seinfeld"), turns 64
1947	Luci Baines Johnson, Daughter of President Lyndon B. Johnson, turns 64
1949	Roy Bittan, Rock musician (The E Street Band), turns 62
1956	Jerry Hall, Actress, model, turns 55
1961	Jimmy McNichol, Actor, singer, turns 50
1983	Michelle Branch, Rock singer, turns 28
1985	Ashley Tisdale, Actress ("High School Musical" movies), turns 26

Historic Birthdays

Thurgood Marshall7/2/1908 - 1/24/1993American civil rights lawyer and first African-American Supreme Court justice.Go to obituary »

66	Thomas Cranmer 7/2/1489 - 3/21/1556 English religious leader; first Protestant archbishop of Canterbury
73	Christoph Gluck 7/2/1714 - 11/15/1787 German composer
77	Richard Henry Stoddard 7/2/1825 - 5/12/1903 American poet, critic and editor
75	Frederick Gates 7/2/1853 - 2/6/1929 American philanthropist and businessman
73	Clarence Barron 7/2/1855 - 10/2/1928 American financial editor and publisher
85	Hermann Hesse 7/2/1877 - 8/9/1962 German novelist and poet; awared Nobel Prize for Literature (1946)
67	Hugh Dryden 7/2/1898 - 12/2/1965 American physicist and deputy administrator of NASA (1958-65)
70	Sir Tyrone Guthrie 7/2/1900 - 5/15/1971 English theatrical director
92	Sir Alec Douglas-Home 7/2/1903 - 10/9/1995 British prime minister (1963-4) and foreign secretary (1960-3, 1970-4)
37	Medgar Evers 7/2/1925 - 6/12/1963 American civil-rights activist; assassinated in 1963
35	Patrice Lumumba 7/2/1925 - 1/17/1961 Congolese independence leader and prime minister (1960)