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Associated Press
\n\"0702ameliaearhartB\"<\/a>On July 2, 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.<\/p>\n

On this date in:
\n1776 The Continental Congress passed a resolution that “these United Colonies are, and of right, ought to be, Free and Independent States.”
\n1881 President James A. Garfield was fatally shot by Charles J. Guiteau at the Washington railroad station. (Garfield died on Sept. 19.)
\n1890 Congress passed the Sherman Antitrust Act.
\n1908 Thurgood Marshall, the first African-American Supreme Court justice, was born in Baltimore.
\n1932 Democrats nominated New York Gov. Franklin D. Roosevelt for president at their convention in Chicago.
\n1947 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.
\n1961 Author Ernest Hemingway, 61, shot himself to death at his home in Ketchum, Idaho.
\n1962 The first Walmart store (called Wal-Mart Discount City) was opened in Rogers, Ark., by Sam Walton and his brother, James.
\n1964 President Lyndon B. Johnson signed into law a sweeping civil rights bill.
\n1976 The Supreme Court ruled the death penalty was not inherently cruel or unusual.
\n2003 President George W. Bush promised to deal harshly with those who attack American troops in Iraq, saying “bring them on.”
\n2007 President George W. Bush commuted the sentence of former aide I. Lewis “Scooter” Libby, sparing him from a two-and-half-year prison term in the CIA leak case.<\/p>\n

Today’s Birthdays:
\nWriter-director Larry David (“Curb Your Enthusiasm,” “Seinfeld”) turns 68 years old today.<\/p>\n

Robert Ito, Actor (“Quincy”), 84
\nPolly Holliday, Actress (“Alice”), 78
\nRichard Petty, Auto racer, 78
\nJohn Sununu, Former White House chief of staff, 76
\nLuci Baines Johnson, Daughter of President Lyndon B. Johnson, 68
\nRoy Bittan, Rock musician (The E Street Band), 66
\nJerry Hall, Actress, model, 59
\nJimmy McNichol, Actor, singer, 54
\nMichelle Branch, Rock singer, 32
\nAshley Tisdale, Actress (“High School Musical” movies), 30
\nLindsay Lohan, Actress, 29
\nFigure skater Johnny Weir turns 31 years old today.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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