July 2
1566 - French astrologer, physician and prophet Nostradamus died.
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 shot by Charlies Guiteau at the Washington railroad station. (He would die on Sept. 19; Guiteau was hanged in June 1882.)
1890 - Congress passed the Sherman Antitrust Act.
1917 - Rioting erupted in East St. Louis, Illinois, as white mobs attacked Black residents; nearly 50 people, mostly Blacks, are believed to have died in the violence.
1932 - Democrats nominated New York Gov. Franklin D. Roosevelt for president at their convention in Chicago.
1937 - Amelia Earhart and her co-pilot Fred Noonan disappeared over the Pacific Ocean while attempting to fly around the world at the equator.
1947 - An object that the U.S. Army Air Force later said a weather balloon crashed near Roswell, New Mexico. Eyewitness accounts gave rise to speculation that it might have been an alien spacecraft.
1961 - Author Ernest Hemingway, age 61, shot himself to death at his home in Ketchum, Idaho.
1962 - The first Walmart store (called Wal-Mart Discount City) was opened in Rogers, Arkansas by Sam Walton and his brother, James.
1964 - President Lyndon B. Johnson signed the Civil Rights Act of 1964 into law.
1976 - The Supreme Court ruled 7-2 in Gregg v. Georgia that the death penalty was not inherently cruel or unusual.
1979 - The Susan B. Anthony dollar coin was first released to the public.
1986 - Ruling in a pair of cases, the U.S. Supreme Court upheld affirmative action as a remedy for past job discrimination.
1990 - More than 1,400 Muslim pilgrims were killed in a stampede inside a pedestrian tunnel near Mecca, Saudi Arabia.
1997 - Actor Jimmy Stewart died in Beverly Hills, California at age 89.
2002 - Steve Fossett became the first to circumnavigate the globe solo in a balloon.
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.
2012 - The U.S. Justice Department said British drugmaker GlaxoSmithKline would pay $3 billion in fines for criminal and civil violations involving 10 drugs taken by millions of people.
2018 - Rescue divers in Thailand found 12 boys and their soccer coach, who had been trapped by flooding as they explored a cave more than a week earlier.
2020 - British socialite Ghislaine Maxwell was arrested in New Hampshire on charges that she had helped lure at least three girls – one as young as 14 – to be sexually abused by the late financier Jeffrey Epstein. (Maxwell would be convicted on five of six counts.)
2021 - After nearly 20 years, U.S. forces in Afghanistan vacated the biggest U.S. air base there, Bagram Airfield, as part of the final U.S. withdrawal from the country; an Afghan official said dozens of looters then stormed through the gates before Afghan forces regained control.
2021 - The U.S. Supreme Court declined to take up the case of a florist who refused to provide services for a same-sex wedding, leaving in place a decision that she broke Washington state anti-discrimination laws.
Birthdays
27 - Ryan Murphy (swimmer)
29 - Saweetie (rapper)
32 - Margot Robbie (actress)
33 - Alex Morgan (soccer player)
36 - Lindsay Lohan (actress)
37 - Ashley Tisdale (actress/singer)
37 - Nelson Franklin (actor)
38 - Johnny Weir (figure skater)
38 - Vanessa Lee Chester (actress)
39 - Michelle Branch (singer)
47 - Elizabeth Reaser (actress)
52 - Yancy Butler (actress)
61 - Jimmy McNichol (actor)
65 - Bret "The Hitman" Hart (professional wrestler)
66 - Jerry Hall (actress/model)
68 - Wendy Schaal (actress)
75 - Luci Baines Johnson (daughter of President Lyndon B. Johnson)
75 - Larry David (actor/comedian/director)
85 - Richard Petty (race car driver)
85 - Polly Holliday (actress)
91 - Robert Ito (actor)
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Today in Sports History - July 2
1911 - Ty Cobb of the Detroit Tigers recorded a hit in his 40th consecutive game.
1921 - In boxing's first million-dollar gate ($1.7 million), world heavyweight champion Jack Dempsey KO'd Frechman Georges Carpentier in the fourth round before 91,000 in Jersey City, New Jersey.
1933 - Carl Hubbell of the New York Giants works 18 innings of shutout ball without a walk to beat the St. Louis Cardinals, 1-0.
1935 - Great Britain amateur boxing team beats the United States in the first international Golden Gloves tournament in New York City.
1941 - Joe DiMaggio got a hit in his 45th consecutive game.
1950 - Bob Feller of the Cleveland Indians wins his 200th game.
1978 - Ron Guidry of the New York Yankees sets a franchise pitching record with a 13-0 start to the season.
1993 - Royals Stadium in Kansas City is renamed Kauffman Stadium shortly before the death of team owner Ewing Kauffman.
1994 - Colombian soccer player Andres Escobar was shot to death in Medellin. 10 days earlier he had accidentally scored a goal against his own team in World Cup competition.
1995 - Hideo Nomo became the first Japanese player to be selected for a major league baseball All-Star Game.
1996 - Alex Rodriguez became the third youngest player to be selected to the American League All Star team. Dwight Gooden and Ken Griffey Jr. were the two younger than Rodriguez.
2002 - A record 62 home runs were hit in 16 major league baseball games.
2008 - A settlement is reached allowing former NBA franchise the Seattle Supersonics to move to Oklahoma City, Oklahoma; new owner Clay Bennett agrees to pay the City of Seattle $45 million to wriggle out of the last two years of a lease of KeyArena.
2017 - Home town underdog Jeff Horn upsets Manny Pacquiao on points in a highly controversial WBO welterweight title fight in Brisbane, Australia.
1566 - French astrologer, physician and prophet Nostradamus died.
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 shot by Charlies Guiteau at the Washington railroad station. (He would die on Sept. 19; Guiteau was hanged in June 1882.)
1890 - Congress passed the Sherman Antitrust Act.
1917 - Rioting erupted in East St. Louis, Illinois, as white mobs attacked Black residents; nearly 50 people, mostly Blacks, are believed to have died in the violence.
1932 - Democrats nominated New York Gov. Franklin D. Roosevelt for president at their convention in Chicago.
1937 - Amelia Earhart and her co-pilot Fred Noonan disappeared over the Pacific Ocean while attempting to fly around the world at the equator.
1947 - An object that the U.S. Army Air Force later said a weather balloon crashed near Roswell, New Mexico. Eyewitness accounts gave rise to speculation that it might have been an alien spacecraft.
1961 - Author Ernest Hemingway, age 61, shot himself to death at his home in Ketchum, Idaho.
1962 - The first Walmart store (called Wal-Mart Discount City) was opened in Rogers, Arkansas by Sam Walton and his brother, James.
1964 - President Lyndon B. Johnson signed the Civil Rights Act of 1964 into law.
1976 - The Supreme Court ruled 7-2 in Gregg v. Georgia that the death penalty was not inherently cruel or unusual.
1979 - The Susan B. Anthony dollar coin was first released to the public.
1986 - Ruling in a pair of cases, the U.S. Supreme Court upheld affirmative action as a remedy for past job discrimination.
1990 - More than 1,400 Muslim pilgrims were killed in a stampede inside a pedestrian tunnel near Mecca, Saudi Arabia.
1997 - Actor Jimmy Stewart died in Beverly Hills, California at age 89.
2002 - Steve Fossett became the first to circumnavigate the globe solo in a balloon.
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.
2012 - The U.S. Justice Department said British drugmaker GlaxoSmithKline would pay $3 billion in fines for criminal and civil violations involving 10 drugs taken by millions of people.
2018 - Rescue divers in Thailand found 12 boys and their soccer coach, who had been trapped by flooding as they explored a cave more than a week earlier.
2020 - British socialite Ghislaine Maxwell was arrested in New Hampshire on charges that she had helped lure at least three girls – one as young as 14 – to be sexually abused by the late financier Jeffrey Epstein. (Maxwell would be convicted on five of six counts.)
2021 - After nearly 20 years, U.S. forces in Afghanistan vacated the biggest U.S. air base there, Bagram Airfield, as part of the final U.S. withdrawal from the country; an Afghan official said dozens of looters then stormed through the gates before Afghan forces regained control.
2021 - The U.S. Supreme Court declined to take up the case of a florist who refused to provide services for a same-sex wedding, leaving in place a decision that she broke Washington state anti-discrimination laws.
Birthdays
27 - Ryan Murphy (swimmer)
29 - Saweetie (rapper)
32 - Margot Robbie (actress)
33 - Alex Morgan (soccer player)
36 - Lindsay Lohan (actress)
37 - Ashley Tisdale (actress/singer)
37 - Nelson Franklin (actor)
38 - Johnny Weir (figure skater)
38 - Vanessa Lee Chester (actress)
39 - Michelle Branch (singer)
47 - Elizabeth Reaser (actress)
52 - Yancy Butler (actress)
61 - Jimmy McNichol (actor)
65 - Bret "The Hitman" Hart (professional wrestler)
66 - Jerry Hall (actress/model)
68 - Wendy Schaal (actress)
75 - Luci Baines Johnson (daughter of President Lyndon B. Johnson)
75 - Larry David (actor/comedian/director)
85 - Richard Petty (race car driver)
85 - Polly Holliday (actress)
91 - Robert Ito (actor)
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Today in Sports History - July 2
1911 - Ty Cobb of the Detroit Tigers recorded a hit in his 40th consecutive game.
1921 - In boxing's first million-dollar gate ($1.7 million), world heavyweight champion Jack Dempsey KO'd Frechman Georges Carpentier in the fourth round before 91,000 in Jersey City, New Jersey.
1933 - Carl Hubbell of the New York Giants works 18 innings of shutout ball without a walk to beat the St. Louis Cardinals, 1-0.
1935 - Great Britain amateur boxing team beats the United States in the first international Golden Gloves tournament in New York City.
1941 - Joe DiMaggio got a hit in his 45th consecutive game.
1950 - Bob Feller of the Cleveland Indians wins his 200th game.
1978 - Ron Guidry of the New York Yankees sets a franchise pitching record with a 13-0 start to the season.
1993 - Royals Stadium in Kansas City is renamed Kauffman Stadium shortly before the death of team owner Ewing Kauffman.
1994 - Colombian soccer player Andres Escobar was shot to death in Medellin. 10 days earlier he had accidentally scored a goal against his own team in World Cup competition.
1995 - Hideo Nomo became the first Japanese player to be selected for a major league baseball All-Star Game.
1996 - Alex Rodriguez became the third youngest player to be selected to the American League All Star team. Dwight Gooden and Ken Griffey Jr. were the two younger than Rodriguez.
2002 - A record 62 home runs were hit in 16 major league baseball games.
2008 - A settlement is reached allowing former NBA franchise the Seattle Supersonics to move to Oklahoma City, Oklahoma; new owner Clay Bennett agrees to pay the City of Seattle $45 million to wriggle out of the last two years of a lease of KeyArena.
2017 - Home town underdog Jeff Horn upsets Manny Pacquiao on points in a highly controversial WBO welterweight title fight in Brisbane, Australia.
