July 2, 2022
QUOTE
Before you react, think. Before you spend, earn. Before you criticize, wait. Before you quit, try.
--Ernest Hemingway
BIRTHDAYS
1908 – Thurgood Marshall, Lawyer and former Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States
1916 – Ken Curtis, Actor and singer
1925 – Medgar Evers, Soldier and activist
1932 – Dave Thomas, Businessman and philanthropist, founded Wendy’s
1937 – Richard Petty, Stockcar driver and team owner
1986 – Lindsay Lohan, Actress and singer[
IN MEMORY
1961 – Ernest Hemingway, Writer and journalist, Nobel Prize laureate
1964 – Fireball Roberts, Stockcar driver
1991 – Lee Remick, Actress
1993 – Fred Gwynne, Actor
1997 – James Stewart, Actor
IN ON THIS DAY
1698 – Thomas Savery patents the first steam engine.
1776 – The Continental Congress adopts a resolution severing ties with Great Britain although the wording of the formal Declaration of Independence is not published until July 4.
1890 – The U.S. Congress passes the Sherman Antitrust Act.
1937 – Amelia Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan are last heard from over the Pacific Ocean while attempting to make the first equatorial round-the-world flight
1962 – The first Walmart store opens for business in Rogers, Arkansas.
1964 – President Lyndon B. Johnson signs the Civil Rights Act of 1964 meant to prohibit segregation in public places.
1976 –Communist North Vietnam annexes the former South Vietnam to form the unified Socialist Republic of Vietnam.