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."
1867 - New York’s first elevated rail line, a single track between Battery Place and Greenwich Street, went into operation.
1881 - President James A. Garfield was shot by Charles Guiteau at a Washington, D.C. railroad station; Garfield would succumb to his injuries on Sept. 19 while Guiteau was executed in June 1882.
1890 - Congress passed the Sherman Antitrust Act.
1908 - Thurgood Marshall, the first African-American Supreme Court justice, was born in Baltimore.
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.
1947 - An object that the Army Air Force later said was a weather balloon crashed near Roswell, New Mexico. 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.
1962 - The first Walmart store (called Wal-Mart Discount City) was opened in Rogers, Arkansas by Sam Walton and his brother, James.
1963 - President John F. Kennedy met Pope Paul VI at the Vatican, the first meeting between a Catholic U.S. chief executive and the head of the Roman Catholic Church.
1964 - President Lyndon B. Johnson signed the Civil Rights Act of 1964 into law.
1976 - In Gregg v. Georgia the U.S. Supreme Court ruled 7-2 that the death penalty was not inherently cruel or unusual.
1982 - Larry Walters of San Pedro, California, used a lawn chair equipped with 45 helium-filled weather balloons to rise to an altitude of 16,000 feet; he landed eight miles away in Long Beach.
1986 - In a pair of rulings, 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 James Stewart died in Beverly Hills, California.
2002 - Steve Fossett became the first person 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.
2016 - Hillary Clinton was voluntarily interviewed for 3 1/2 hours by the FBI at the agency’s Washington headquarters about her use of a private email server as secretary of state.
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.
Birthdays
31 - Margot Robbie (actress)
32 - Alex Morgan (soccer player)
35 - Lindsay Lohan (actress)
36 - Ashley Tisdale (actress/singer)
36 - Nelson Franklin (actor)
37 - Johnny Weir (figure skater)
37 - Vanessa Lee Chester (actress)
38 - Michelle Branch (singer)
46 - Elizabeth Reaser (actress)
48 - Peter Kay (comedian)
51 - Yancy Butler (actress)
58 - Guy Penrod (country singer)
60 - Jimmy McNichol (actor)
64 - Bret "The Hitman" Hart (professional wrestler)
65 - Jerry Hall (actress/model)
67 - Wendy Schaal (actress)
73 - Saul Rubinek (actor)
74 - Luci Baines Johnson (daughter of President Lyndon B. Johnson)
74 - Larry David (writer/actor/comedian)
84 - Richard Petty (race car driver)
84 - Polly Holliday (actress)
90 - 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. (The streak would end the next game.)
1921 - In boxing's first million dollar gate ($1.7 million), world heavyweight champion Jack Dempsey KO'd Frenchman Georges Carpentier in the fourth round in front of a crowd of 91,000 at Boyle's Thirty Acres in Jersey City, New Jersey.
1941 - Joe DiMaggio of the New York Yankees got a hit in his 45th consecutive game.
1950 - Cleveland Indians pitcher Bob Feller wins his 200th game.
1986 - Roger Clemens of the Boston Red Sox suffers his first loss of the season after starting 14-0 in a 4-2 loss to the Toronto Blue Jays; Clemens fell one win short of the American League record for consecutive wins to start a season.
1993 - Royals Stadium in Kansas City is renamed Kauffman Stadium shortly before the death of Royals owner Ewing Kauffman.
1994 - Colombian soccer player Andres Escobar was shot to death in Medellin. Ten 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 the NBA's Seattle Supersonics to move to Oklahoma City; new owner Clay Bennett agrees to pay the city of Seattle $45 million to wriggle out of the last two years of the lease of KeyArena.
2011 - Petra Kvitova beat Maria Sharapova 6-3, 6-4 to become the first left-handed woman to win the Wimbledon title since Martina Navratilova in 1990.
2017 - Hometown underdog Jeff Horn upsets Manny Pacquiao of the Philippines 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."
1867 - New York’s first elevated rail line, a single track between Battery Place and Greenwich Street, went into operation.
1881 - President James A. Garfield was shot by Charles Guiteau at a Washington, D.C. railroad station; Garfield would succumb to his injuries on Sept. 19 while Guiteau was executed in June 1882.
1890 - Congress passed the Sherman Antitrust Act.
1908 - Thurgood Marshall, the first African-American Supreme Court justice, was born in Baltimore.
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.
1947 - An object that the Army Air Force later said was a weather balloon crashed near Roswell, New Mexico. 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.
1962 - The first Walmart store (called Wal-Mart Discount City) was opened in Rogers, Arkansas by Sam Walton and his brother, James.
1963 - President John F. Kennedy met Pope Paul VI at the Vatican, the first meeting between a Catholic U.S. chief executive and the head of the Roman Catholic Church.
1964 - President Lyndon B. Johnson signed the Civil Rights Act of 1964 into law.
1976 - In Gregg v. Georgia the U.S. Supreme Court ruled 7-2 that the death penalty was not inherently cruel or unusual.
1982 - Larry Walters of San Pedro, California, used a lawn chair equipped with 45 helium-filled weather balloons to rise to an altitude of 16,000 feet; he landed eight miles away in Long Beach.
1986 - In a pair of rulings, 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 James Stewart died in Beverly Hills, California.
2002 - Steve Fossett became the first person 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.
2016 - Hillary Clinton was voluntarily interviewed for 3 1/2 hours by the FBI at the agency’s Washington headquarters about her use of a private email server as secretary of state.
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.
Birthdays
31 - Margot Robbie (actress)
32 - Alex Morgan (soccer player)
35 - Lindsay Lohan (actress)
36 - Ashley Tisdale (actress/singer)
36 - Nelson Franklin (actor)
37 - Johnny Weir (figure skater)
37 - Vanessa Lee Chester (actress)
38 - Michelle Branch (singer)
46 - Elizabeth Reaser (actress)
48 - Peter Kay (comedian)
51 - Yancy Butler (actress)
58 - Guy Penrod (country singer)
60 - Jimmy McNichol (actor)
64 - Bret "The Hitman" Hart (professional wrestler)
65 - Jerry Hall (actress/model)
67 - Wendy Schaal (actress)
73 - Saul Rubinek (actor)
74 - Luci Baines Johnson (daughter of President Lyndon B. Johnson)
74 - Larry David (writer/actor/comedian)
84 - Richard Petty (race car driver)
84 - Polly Holliday (actress)
90 - 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. (The streak would end the next game.)
1921 - In boxing's first million dollar gate ($1.7 million), world heavyweight champion Jack Dempsey KO'd Frenchman Georges Carpentier in the fourth round in front of a crowd of 91,000 at Boyle's Thirty Acres in Jersey City, New Jersey.
1941 - Joe DiMaggio of the New York Yankees got a hit in his 45th consecutive game.
1950 - Cleveland Indians pitcher Bob Feller wins his 200th game.
1986 - Roger Clemens of the Boston Red Sox suffers his first loss of the season after starting 14-0 in a 4-2 loss to the Toronto Blue Jays; Clemens fell one win short of the American League record for consecutive wins to start a season.
1993 - Royals Stadium in Kansas City is renamed Kauffman Stadium shortly before the death of Royals owner Ewing Kauffman.
1994 - Colombian soccer player Andres Escobar was shot to death in Medellin. Ten 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 the NBA's Seattle Supersonics to move to Oklahoma City; new owner Clay Bennett agrees to pay the city of Seattle $45 million to wriggle out of the last two years of the lease of KeyArena.
2011 - Petra Kvitova beat Maria Sharapova 6-3, 6-4 to become the first left-handed woman to win the Wimbledon title since Martina Navratilova in 1990.
2017 - Hometown underdog Jeff Horn upsets Manny Pacquiao of the Philippines on points in a highly controversial WBO welterweight title fight in Brisbane, Australia.
