Somuch.com - You will never have too much!
Power User

 

Thursday, July 2th

Today is the 183rd day of 2009
There are 182 days left in the year

What happened on July 2th

Events which occurred on this day.

1776The Continental Congress passed a resolution that ''these United Colonies are, and of right, ought to be, Free and Independent States.''
1881President Garfield was shot by Charles J. Guiteau at the Washington railroad station; Garfield died that September.
1890Congress passed the Sherman Antitrust Act.
1932Democrats nominated New York Gov. Franklin D. Roosevelt for president at their convention in Chicago. Read the original AP story
1937Aviator Amelia Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan disappeared over the Pacific Ocean while attempting to make the first round-the-world flight at the equator.
1947An object crashed near Roswell, N.M. The Army Air Force later insisted it was a weather balloon, but eyewitness accounts gave rise to speculation it might have been an alien spacecraft.
1961Author Ernest Hemingway shot himself to death at his home in Ketchum, Idaho.
1964President Johnson signed into law a sweeping civil rights bill passed by Congress.
1976The Supreme Court ruled the death penalty was not inherently cruel or unusual. Florida Attorney General Robert Shevin comments on the ruling.
1994Colombian soccer player Andres Escobar was shot to death in Medellin, 10 days after accidentally scoring a goal against his own team in World Cup competition.
1998Apologizing to viewers and Vietnam veterans for ''serious faults'' in its reporting, Cable News Network retracted a story alleging U.S. commandos had used nerve gas to kill American defectors during the war.
2000Opposition candidate Vicente Fox won Mexico's presidential elections, ending the Institutional Revolutionary Party's 71-year reign.

Consider this...
A foolish husband says to his wife, "Honey, you stick to the washin', ironin', cookin', and scrubbin'. No wife of mine is gonna work."

Amusing or Irrelevant Facts...
There are 31,557,600 seconds in a year.