Today in History - July 2
Today is Thursday, July 2, the 183rd day of 2009. There are 182 days left in the year.
Today's Highlight in History:
On July 2, 1776, the Continental Congress passed a resolution saying that "these United Colonies are, and of right ought to be, free and independent States."
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In 1809, Shawnee leader Tecumseh began organizing an Indian Confederacy to resist the growing spread of white American settlers.
In 1881, President James A. Garfield was shot by Charles J. Guiteau at the Washington railroad station; Garfield died the following September....
Today is Wednesday, July 1, the 182nd day of 2009. There are 183 days left in the year. This is Canada Day.
Today's Highlight in History:
On July 1, 1867, Canada became a self-governing dominion of Great Britain as the British North America Act took effect.
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In 1859, the first intercollegiate baseball game took place in Pittsfield, Mass., between teams from Williams College and Amherst College. (Amherst won the nearly four-hour, 26-inning contest by the score of 73-32.)
In 1863, the Civil War Battle of Gettysburg, resulting in a Union victory,...
Today is Tuesday, June 30, the 181st day of 2009. There are 184 days left in the year.
Today's Highlight in History:
On June 30, 1859, French acrobat Charles Blondin (born Jean Francois Gravelet) walked back and forth on a tightrope above the gorge of Niagara Falls as thousands of spectators watched.
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In 1906, President Theodore Roosevelt signed the Pure Food and Drug Act and the Meat Inspection Act.
In 1908, the Tunguska Event took place in Russia as an asteroid exploded above Siberia, leaving 800 square miles of scorched or blown-down...
Today is Monday, June 29, the 180th day of 2009. There are 185 days left in the year.
Today's Highlight in History:
On June 29, 1776, the Virginia state constitution was adopted, and Patrick Henry was made governor.
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In 1767, the British Parliament approved the Townshend Acts, which imposed import duties on certain goods shipped to America. (Colonists bitterly protested, prompting Parliament in 1770 to repeal the duties on all goods, except tea.)
In 1946, authorities in British-ruled Palestine arrested more than 2,700 Jews in an attempt to stamp...
Today is Sunday, June 28, the 179th day of 2009. There are 186 days left in the year.
Today's Highlights in History:
On June 28, 1919, the Treaty of Versailles was signed in France, ending World War I. In Independence, Mo., future president Harry S. Truman married Elizabeth Virginia Wallace.
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In 1491, England's King Henry VIII was born at Greenwich.
In 1778, the Revolutionary War Battle of Monmouth took place in New Jersey; it was from this battle that the legend of "Molly Pitcher" arose.
In 1836, the fourth president of the United States...
Today is Saturday, June 27, the 178th day of 2009. There are 187 days left in the year.
Today's Highlight in History:
On June 27, 1844, Mormon leader Joseph Smith and his brother, Hyrum, were killed by a mob in Carthage, Ill.
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In 1846, New York and Boston were linked by telegraph wires.
In 1893, the New York stock market crashed.
In 1944, during World War II, American forces completed their capture of the French port of Cherbourg from the Germans.
In 1950, the U.N. Security Council passed a resolution calling on member nations to...
Today is Friday, June 26, the 177th day of 2009. There are 188 days left in the year.
Today's Highlight in History:
On June 26, 1963, President John F. Kennedy visited West Berlin, where he expressed solidarity with the city's residents by declaring: "Ich bin ein Berliner" (I am a Berliner).
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In 1870, the first section of Atlantic City's Boardwalk was opened to the public in New Jersey.
In 1919, the New York Daily News was first published.
In 1945, the charter of the United Nations was signed by 50 countries in San Francisco.
In 19...
AP News
French investigators release report on Flight 447 By Otavio de Souza (AP)
French investigators on Thursday will present their initial findings into what caused Air France Flight 447 to drop out of the sky in the middle of the Atlantic a month ago, prompting one of history's most challenging plane crash investigations.
The Airbus A330-200 plane flying from Rio de Janeiro to Paris went down with 228 people on board in a remote area of the Atlantic, 930 miles (1,500 kilometers) off Brazil's mainland and far from radar coverage.
A burst of automated messages emitted by the plane before it fell gave rescuers only a vague location to begin their search, which has failed to locate the plane's black boxes. The chances of finding the flight recorders are falling as the signals they emit fade. Without them, the full causes of the tragic accident may never be known.
The French air accident investigation agency, the BEA, will present its preliminary report to journalists at its headquarters in Le Bourget, outside Paris. Read More...
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