Today is Monday, July 2, the 183rd day of 2018. There are 182 days left in the year.
Todays Highlight in History:
On July 2, 1937, aviator Amelia Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan disappeared over the Pacific Ocean while attempting to make the first round-the-world flight along the equator.
On this date:
In 1776, the Continental Congress passed a resolution saying that these United Colonies are, and of right ought to be, free and independent States.
In 1881, President James A. Garfield was shot by Charles J. Guiteau at the Washington railroad station; Garfield died the following September. (Guiteau was hanged in June 1882.)
In 1892, the Populist Party (also known as the Peoples Party) opened its first national convention in Omaha, Nebraska.
In 1917, rioting erupted in East St. Louis, Illinois, as white mobs attacked black residents; nearly 50 people, mostly blacks, are believed to have died in the violence.
In 1926, the United States Army Air Corps was created.
In 1955, The Lawrence Welk Show premiered on ABC-TV under its original title, The Dodge Dancing Party.
In 1961, author Ernest Hemingway shot himself to death at his home in Ketchum, Idaho.
In 1964, President Lyndon B. Johnson signed into law a sweeping civil rights bill passed by Congress.
In 1987, 18 Mexican immigrants were found dead inside a locked boxcar near Sierra Blanca, Texas, in what authorities called a botched smuggling attempt; a 19th man survived.
Thought for Today: No great man lives in vain. The history of the world is but the biography of great men. Thomas Carlyle, Scottish critic and historian (1795-1881).
