History for July 2

History for July 2 - On-This-Day.com
Hermann Hesse 1877 - German poet, novelist, painter, Jean Rene Lacoste 1904 - Tennis player, businessman, Thurgood Marshall 1908 - U.S. Supreme Court Justice, Medgar Evers 1925 - Civil rights activist from Mississippi 


Imelda Marcos 1929 - Widow of former Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos, Dave Thomas 1932 - Founder for Wendy's Old Fashioned Hamburgers, Richard Petty 1937 - Auto racer 


Ronald Arthur "Ron" Silver 1946 - Actor, Saul Rubinek 1948 - Actor, Lindsay Lohan 1986 - Actress 


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. 


1962 - Wal-Mart Discount City opened in Rogers, Arkansas. It was the first Walmart store. 


1979 - The U.S. Mint officially released the Susan B. Anthony coin in Rochester, NY. 


1982 - Larry Walters ("Lawnchair Larry") took flight in his homeade airship that consisted of a lawnchair with 45 helium-filled weather balloons attached to it. He stayed in flight for about an hour. 


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.