07-02-2005, 06:17 AM
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July 2nd
1714 ~ Birthday of Christoph Willibald Gluck, German Composer.
1777 ~ Vermont became the first state to abolish slavery.
1808 ~ Simon Fraser reached the Pacific near New Westminster.
1906 ~ Birthday of Hans Bethe, Nobel Prize-winning German-born nuclear physicist.
1908 ~ Birthday of Thurgood Marshall, U. S. Supreme Court justice.
1937 ~ Amelia Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan disappeared over the Pacific Ocean.
1961 ~ Death of Ernest Hemingway, American author, recipient of the Nobel Prize for Literature.
1976 ~ North and South Vietnam, divided since 1954, reunited to form the Socialist Republic of Vietnam.
1977 ~ Death of Vladimir Nabokov, Russian-born writer.
1982 ~ Larry Walters attached 45 helium balloons to a lawn chair and ascended to a height of 16,000 feet.
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