History for July 2

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Lindsay Lohan 1986, Dave Thomas 1932 - Founder for Wendy's Old Fashioned Hamburgers, Imelda Marcos 1929 


1776 - Richard Henry Lee’s resolution that the American colonies "are, and of right ought to be, free and independent States" was adopted by the Continental Congress. 


1850 - B.J. Lane patented the gas mask. 


Battle of Gettysburg-Day 2
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1881 - Charles J. Guiteau fatally wounded U.S. President James A. Garfield in Washington, DC. 


1890 - The U.S. Congress passed the Sherman Antitrust Act. 


1926 - The U.S. Congress established the Army Air Corps. 












1937 - American aviation pioneer Amelia Earhart disappeared in the Central Pacific during an attempt to fly around the world at the equator. 


1939 - At Mount Rushmore, Theodore Roosevelt's face was dedicated. 


1947 - An object crashed near Roswell, NM. The U.S. Army Air Force insisted it was a weather balloon, but eyewitness accounts led to speculation that it might have been an alien spacecraft. 


1964 - U.S. President Johnson signed the "Civil Rights Act of 1964" into law. The act made it illegal in the U.S. to discriminate against others because of their race. 


1998 - Cable News Network (CNN) retracted a story that alleged that U.S. commandos had used nerve gas to kill American defectors during the Vietnam War.