July 2
1566 - French astrologer, physician and prophet Nostradamus died.
1776 - The Continental Congress passed a resolution saying that "these United Colonies are, and of right ought to be, free and independent States."
1881 - President James A. Garfield was shot by Charles Guiteau at the Washington railroad station; Garfield died the following September. (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, most of them Black, are believed to have died in the violence.
1937 - Amelia Earhart and her co-pilot, Fred Noonan, disappeared over the Pacific Ocean while attempting to fly around the world along the equator.
1964 - President Lyndon B. Johnson signed the Civil Rights Act of 1964 into law.
1976 - The U.S. 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 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 person to circumnavigate the globe solo in a hot air balloon.
2013 - The Obama administration unexpectedly announced a one-year delay, until after the 2014 elections, in a central requirement of the health care law that medium and large companies provide coverage for their workers or face fines.
2018 - Rescue divers in Thailand found alive 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.)
Birthdays
28 - Ryan Murphy (simmer)
28 - Ruth B (singer)
33 - Margot Robbie (actress)
34 - Alex Morgan (soccer player)
37 - Lindsay Lohan (actress)
38 - Ashley Tisdale (actress/singer)
38 - Nelson Franklin (actor)
39 - Johnny Weir (figure skater)
39 - Vanessa Lee Chester (actress)
40 - Michelle Branch (singer)
48 - Elizabeth Reaser (actress)
53 - Yancy Butler (actor)
62 - Jimmy McNichol (actor)
66 - Bret "The Hitman" Hart (professional wrestler)
67 - Jerry Hall (actor)
69 - Wendy Schaal (actress)
76 - Larry David (actor/comedian)
86 - Richard Petty (race car driver)
86 - Polly Holiday (actress)
92 - Robert Ito (actor)
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Today in Sports History - July 2
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 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.
1941 - Joe DiMaggio got a hit in his 45th consecutive game.
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 Seattle Supersonics to move to Oklahoma City, Oklahoma; the team's new owner, Clay Bennett, agrees to pay the city of Seattle $45 million to wriggle out of the last two years of the KeyArena lease.
2013 - Olympic track star Suzy Favor Hamilton's name was removed from the Big Ten female athlete of the year award following revelations she had been a sex worker.
1566 - French astrologer, physician and prophet Nostradamus died.
1776 - The Continental Congress passed a resolution saying that "these United Colonies are, and of right ought to be, free and independent States."
1881 - President James A. Garfield was shot by Charles Guiteau at the Washington railroad station; Garfield died the following September. (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, most of them Black, are believed to have died in the violence.
1937 - Amelia Earhart and her co-pilot, Fred Noonan, disappeared over the Pacific Ocean while attempting to fly around the world along the equator.
1964 - President Lyndon B. Johnson signed the Civil Rights Act of 1964 into law.
1976 - The U.S. 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 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 person to circumnavigate the globe solo in a hot air balloon.
2013 - The Obama administration unexpectedly announced a one-year delay, until after the 2014 elections, in a central requirement of the health care law that medium and large companies provide coverage for their workers or face fines.
2018 - Rescue divers in Thailand found alive 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.)
Birthdays
28 - Ryan Murphy (simmer)
28 - Ruth B (singer)
33 - Margot Robbie (actress)
34 - Alex Morgan (soccer player)
37 - Lindsay Lohan (actress)
38 - Ashley Tisdale (actress/singer)
38 - Nelson Franklin (actor)
39 - Johnny Weir (figure skater)
39 - Vanessa Lee Chester (actress)
40 - Michelle Branch (singer)
48 - Elizabeth Reaser (actress)
53 - Yancy Butler (actor)
62 - Jimmy McNichol (actor)
66 - Bret "The Hitman" Hart (professional wrestler)
67 - Jerry Hall (actor)
69 - Wendy Schaal (actress)
76 - Larry David (actor/comedian)
86 - Richard Petty (race car driver)
86 - Polly Holiday (actress)
92 - Robert Ito (actor)
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Today in Sports History - July 2
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 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.
1941 - Joe DiMaggio got a hit in his 45th consecutive game.
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 Seattle Supersonics to move to Oklahoma City, Oklahoma; the team's new owner, Clay Bennett, agrees to pay the city of Seattle $45 million to wriggle out of the last two years of the KeyArena lease.
2013 - Olympic track star Suzy Favor Hamilton's name was removed from the Big Ten female athlete of the year award following revelations she had been a sex worker.
