scooter here for today in history for July 2nd -> 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.) 1908 Thurgood Marshall, the first African-American Supreme Court justice, was born in Baltimore. 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. 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."
Posted on: Tue, 02 Jul 2013 23:36:13 +0000
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