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On This Day

July 2

1992
The 1,000,000th Corvette rolls off the assembly line.

1991
Guns N' Roses riot: The crowd erupts after lead singer Axl Rose ends the concert early. He stormed off the stage after diving into the crowd and attacking a fan for having a camera.

1982
Kiddy-porn: A New York law banning the production and sale of kiddy-porn is upheld by the U.S. Supreme Court (9-0).

1976
Death penalty: The U.S. Supreme Court overturns its 1972 ban on the death penalty.

1965
Equal Employment Opportunity Commission is established.

1962
Wal-Mart: The future retail giant opens its first store in Rogers, Arkansas.

1937
Amelia Earhart's plane disappears over the Pacific Ocean, as she and Fred Noonan attempted to be the first aviators to circle the globe.

1934
Securities and Exchange Commission is established.

1921
World War I: The U.S. terminates its state of war with Germany.

1919
First lighter-than-air transatlantic flight: Major George H. Scott takes off from Firth of Fourth, Scotland. He landed in Mineola, New York on July 13.

1900
First flight of a Zeppelin: The LZ-1 is flown by Count Ferdinand von Zeppelin.

1890
Sherman Antitrust Act, designed to prevent monopolies and prevent restraint of trade.

1881
Pres. Garfield is shot and mortally wounded by Charles Jules Guiteau.

1776
American Revolution: The Continental Congress votes to adopt a resolution of independence.

1968     d. 1994
Ronald Goldman, American murder victim. He and Nicole Brown Simpson were murdered together.

1946
Ron Silver, American actor. TV: Rhoda (Gary Levy).

1939
John H. Sununu, White House Chief of Staff, traveler.

1937
Richard Petty, American auto racer, 7-time-winner of the Daytona 500 and 7-time NASCAR national champ.

1937
Polly Holliday, American actress. TV: Alice (Flo).

1922     d. 1987
Dan Rowan, American comedian. TV: Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In.

1908     d. 1993
Thurgood Marshall, American civil-rights lawyer, first black U.S. Supreme Court justice (1967-91), and legal director of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP).

1855     d. 1928
Clarence Walker Barron, American financial editor, Barron's Financial Weekly (1921-28).

2002     b. 1926
Ray Brown, American Grammy-winning jazz string bassist, performed with Dizzy Gillespie in the late '40s.

1993     b. 1926
Fred Gwynne, American actor. TV: Car 54, Where Are You (officer Francis Muldoon) and The Munsters (Herman).

1991     b. 1935
Lee Remick, American actress. Film: Anatomy of a Murder (1959) and The Days of Wine and Roses (1962).

1989     b. 1909
Andrei Andreyevich Gromyko, Soviet statesman, director of Soviet affairs with the West for nearly 50 years.

1973     b. 1916
Betty Grable (Elizabeth Ruth Grable), American actress, dancer, pin-up girl. Her legs were insured for $1,000,000 with Lloyds of London.

1961     b. 1899
Ernest Hemingway, American Nobel and Pulitzer-winning author. Writings: The Sun Also Rises (1926), To Have and Have Not (1937), For Whom the Bell Tolls (194), and The Old Man and the Sea (1952, Pulitzer).

1932     b. 1889
Manuel II, King of Portugal (1908-10), Portugal's last monarch. Deposed during a revolt, he lived out his life in exile in England.

1926     b. 1857
Emile Coue, French druggist. He created the psychotherapeutic technique of Coueism, which is based on repeating the saying "Day by day, in every way, I am getting better and better."

1904     b. 1860
Anton Pavlovich Chekhov, Russian author, The Three Sisters (1901) and The Cherry Orchard (1904).

1850     b. 1788
Sir Robert Peel, English statesman, founder of the metropolitan police in London (c1829). The term "bobbie" is derived from his first name.

1843     b. 1755
Samuel Hahnemann, German physician, founder of homeopathic medicine, based on the "law of similars." This states that diseases can be cured by drugs which produce symptoms in healthy people that are similar to the symptoms being treated.

1798     b. 1743
John Fitch, American pioneer steamboat builder. He launched his first steamboat in 1787.

1778     b. circa 1746
Bathsheba Spooner, American criminal. She was the first woman executed in the U.S. by American courts. She conspired with her boyfriend and two others to kill her husband. She was pregnant with her boyfriend's child when she was hanged. (More...)

1566     b. 1503
Nostradamus (Michel de Nostredame), French astrologer, physician, prophet. He predicted both the date and manner of his death.

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