July 2 Events In History

July is National Blueberry Month, National Ice Cream Month, National Hot Dog Month.
In honor of these commemorations, I think I will put some blueberries on my Jeni’s ice cream, but after I eat my turkey hot dog. 😉

July 2, 1776 – The Continental Congress in Philadelphia adopted the following resolution, originally introduced on June 7, by Richard Henry Lee of Virginia: “Resolved, That these United Colonies are, and of right ought to be, free and independent States, that they are absolved from all allegiance to the British Crown, and that all political connection between them and the State of Great Britain is, and ought to be, totally dissolved. That it is expedient forthwith to take the most effectual measures for forming foreign Alliances. That a plan of confederation be prepared and transmitted to the respective Colonies for their consideration and approbation.”

July 2, 1788 – Congress announced the United States Constitution had been ratified by the required nine states and that a committee had been appointed to make preparations for the new American government.

July 2, 1881 – President James A. Garfield was shot and mortally wounded as he entered a railway station in Washington, D.C. He died on September 19th.

July 2, 1917 – A race riot occurred in St. Louis, Missouri, resulting in an estimated 75 African Americans killed and hundreds injured. To protest the violence against blacks, W.E.B. DuBois and James Weldon Johnson later led a silent march down Fifth Avenue in New York.

July 2, 1964 – President Lyndon B. Johnson signed the Civil Rights Act of 1964, prohibiting discrimination on the basis of race in public accommodations, publicly owned or operated facilities, employment and union membership and in voter registration. The Act allowed for cutoff of Federal funds in places where discrimination remained.

Birthday – The first African American on the U.S. Supreme Court, Thurgood Marshall (1908-1993) was born in Baltimore, Maryland. Nominated by President Johnson, he began his 24-year career on the High Court in 1967.

http://www.historyplace.com/specials/calendar/july.htm
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The Lawrence Welk show premieres on television.(1955)

History July This Day in History

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Amelia Earhart and her airplane were lost in Pacific Ocean, 1937
Author Ernest Hemingway died in Ketchum, Idaho, 1961
http://www.aboutfamouspeople.com/article1219.html
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Visual of Today In History on USAToday.com
http://www.usatoday.com/videos/news/2013/07/02/2481819/