On This Day

Posted on July 2, 2004 by Frog

On July 2nd
In 1776: The Second Continental Congress voted in favor of independence from foreign rule.
In 1839: There was mutiny on the Amistad slave ship.
In 1881: President Garfield was shot.
In 1900: Count Ferdinand Graf von Zeppelin demonstrated the hydrogen filled rigid airship.
In 1937: Amelia Earhart disappeared.
In 1955: The Lawrence Welk show premiered.
In 1964: President Johnson signed into law the Civil Rights Act.

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