The Almanac
Today is Thursday, July 2, the 183rd day of 2015 with 182 to follow.
The moon is waning. Morning stars are Mars, Mercury, Neptune and
Uranus. Evening stars are Jupiter, Saturn and Venus. Those born on this
date are under the sign of Cancer. They include German novelist Hermann
Hesse in 1877; King Olav V of Norway in 1903; tennis champion Rene
Lacoste in 1904; former U.S. Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall in
1908; singer/actor Ken Curtis ( Gunsmoke's Festus) in 1916; civil
rights activist Medgar Evers in 1925; Imelda Marcos, wife of former
Philippine President Fernando Marcos, in 1929 (age 86); Dave Thomas,
Wendy's fast-food restaurant chain founder, in 1932; actor Polly
Holliday in 1937 (age 78); former race car driver Richard Petty in 1937
(age 78); actor/director Ron Silver in 1946; writer/actor Larry David
in 1947 (age 68); actor Jimmy McNichol in 1961 (age 54); former
baseball star Jose Canseco, first to hit 40 home runs and steal 40
bases in the same major league season, in 1964 (age 51); actor Lindsay
Lohan in 1986 (age 29). On this date in history: In 1788, it was
announced in the U.S. Congress that the new Constitution had been
ratified by the required nine states, the ninth being New Hampshire. In
1839, slaves being shipped to Cuba revolted and seized the ship
Amistad, leading to an eventual end of the African slave market. In
1881, U.S. President James Garfield was shot by Charles J. Guiteau, a
mentally unstable lawyer and office-seeker. (Garfield died Sept. 19 and
was succeeded by Vice President Chester Arthur. Guiteau was convicted
and hanged in 1982.) In 1900, the world's first rigid airship was
demonstrated by Ferdinand Graf von Zeppelin in Germany. In 1934,
6-year-old Shirley Temple signed a contract with Fox Film Corp. (She
went on to become one of the biggest movie stars of the era.) In 1937,
U.S. aviator Amelia Earhart and navigator Frederick Noonan were
reported lost over the Pacific Ocean. (They were never found.) In 1962,
the first Walmart store opened -- in Rogers, Ark. In 1964, the U.S.
Civil Rights Act of 1964 became law with the signature of President
Lyndon B. Johnson. In 1976, North and South Vietnam reunited, forming
the Socialist Republic of Vietnam. In 1986, the U.S. Supreme Court
endorsed numerical hiring goals for minorities, rejecting the Reagan
administration view that affirmative action be limited to proven
victims of race discrimination. In 1990, a stampede in a pedestrian
tunnel at the Muslim holy city of Mecca during the annual hajj killed
1,426 pilgrims. In 1993, South African President F.W de Klerk and
African National Congress leader Nelson Mandela announced that the
country's first election open to all races would be April 27, 1994. In
1994, a Colombian soccer player who inadvertently scored a goal for the
United States, contributing to his team's loss in World Cup
competition, was shot to death in Medellin, Colombia. In 2000, Vicente
Fox was elected president of Mexico. In 2002, American Steve Fossett
completed the first round-the-world solo flight in a balloon, reaching
Queensland in the Australian outback to finish a 13-day, 19,428-mile
trip that began in Western Australia. In 2004, medical reports said
post-traumatic stress disorder was appearing in 1-in-6 U.S. soldiers
returning from Iraq. In 2009, India's ban on homosexuality, in effect
since 1861, was overturned by New Delhi's highest court. In 2013, in
announcing an Affordable Care Act delay, U.S. officials said a mandate
that larger employers provide health coverage for their workers, or pay
penalties, would not be enforced until 2015. In 2014, U.S. officials
announced that security would be tightened for some flights headed to
the United States from the Middle East and Europe because intelligence
reports indicated an increased threat by terrorists. A thought for the
day: Guns and bombs, rockets and warships are all symbols of human
failure. -- Lyndon B. Johnson .
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