Portal:United States/On this day/July 2
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Events
- 1679 - Europeans first visit Minnesota and see headwaters of Mississippi - led by Daniel Greysolon de Du Luth.
- 1776 - The Continental Congress adopts a resolution severing ties with Great Britain; wording of the formal Declaration of Independence is not approved until July 4.
- 1777 - Vermont becomes the first American territory to abolish slavery.
- 1863 - American Civil War: Second day of the Battle of Gettysburg.
- 1878 - The Brighton Beach Line (now the BMT Brighton Line) opens in the then-city of Brooklyn.
- 1881 - Charles J. Guiteau shoots and fatally wounds U.S. President James Garfield, who eventually dies from infection on September 19.
- 1890 - The U.S. Congress passes the Sherman Anti-Trust Act.
- 1917 - Forty-eight die in rioting in East St. Louis, Illinois, as lower-paid black laborers clash with whites.
- 1937 - Amelia Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan disappear over the Pacific Ocean while attempting to make the first equatorial round-the-world flight.
- 1947 - An object speculated to be a UFO crashes near Roswell, New Mexico, though the United States Air Force claims it is a weather balloon.
- 1962 - The first Wal-Mart store opens for business in Rogers, Arkansas.
- 1964 - President Lyndon B. Johnson signs the Civil Rights Act of 1964, which prohibits segregation in public places.
- 1979 - The first U.S. coin to honor a woman, the Susan B. Anthony dollar, is introduced.
- 2002 - Steve Fossett becomes the first person to fly solo around the world nonstop in a balloon.
