July 2
1752
The first Bible in America printed in English was published in Boston.
1776
The Continental Congress passed a resolution saying that "These United Colonies are, and of right, ought to be, Free and Independent States."
1881
Charles J. Giteau shot President Garfield at the Washington railroad station. The president died the following September.
1922
A day before his 19th birthday, Ralph W. Samuelson became the first person to ride on water skis he had made as they are used today, at Lake Pepin, Minnesota.
1926
The U.S. Army Air Corps was created.
1932
Democrats nominated New York Gov. Franklin D. Roosevelt for president at their convention in Chicago.
1937
Aviator Amelia Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan disappeared over the Pacific Ocean while attempting to make the first round-the-world flight at the equator.
1940
The Lake Washington Floating Bridge in Seattle, Wash. -- the first pontoon bridge of reinforced concrete in the U.S. -- was dedicated. The four-lane concrete highway bridge was anchored with steel cables and 65-ton anchors to resist wind and waves, and hydraulic jacks to let out or take up the slack. Fifty years after it was built, water from a heavy rainstorm filled the pontoons and the floating bridge sank into Lake Washington on Nov 25, 1990. The bridge was later rebuilt.
1947
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.
1997
Actor James Stewart died at age 89.
2001
Robert Tools received the world's first self-contained artificial heart in Louisville, Ky. (He lived 151 days with the device.)
2002
American Steve Fossett became the first person to fly a balloon solo around the world.
2007
Opera singer Beverly Sills died at age 78.
1752
The first Bible in America printed in English was published in Boston.
1776
The Continental Congress passed a resolution saying that "These United Colonies are, and of right, ought to be, Free and Independent States."
1881
Charles J. Giteau shot President Garfield at the Washington railroad station. The president died the following September.
1922
A day before his 19th birthday, Ralph W. Samuelson became the first person to ride on water skis he had made as they are used today, at Lake Pepin, Minnesota.
1926
The U.S. Army Air Corps was created.
1932
Democrats nominated New York Gov. Franklin D. Roosevelt for president at their convention in Chicago.
1937
Aviator Amelia Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan disappeared over the Pacific Ocean while attempting to make the first round-the-world flight at the equator.
1940
The Lake Washington Floating Bridge in Seattle, Wash. -- the first pontoon bridge of reinforced concrete in the U.S. -- was dedicated. The four-lane concrete highway bridge was anchored with steel cables and 65-ton anchors to resist wind and waves, and hydraulic jacks to let out or take up the slack. Fifty years after it was built, water from a heavy rainstorm filled the pontoons and the floating bridge sank into Lake Washington on Nov 25, 1990. The bridge was later rebuilt.
1947
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.
1997
Actor James Stewart died at age 89.
2001
Robert Tools received the world's first self-contained artificial heart in Louisville, Ky. (He lived 151 days with the device.)
2002
American Steve Fossett became the first person to fly a balloon solo around the world.
2007
Opera singer Beverly Sills died at age 78.
