July 2, 2023
QUOTE
Do what you think is right and let the law catch up.
--Thurgood Marshall
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.