07-02-2006, 05:29 AM
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Location: Maryland
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July 2nd
1714 ~ Birthday of Christoph Willibald Gluck, German Composer.
1906 ~ Birthday of Hans Bethe, German-born Physicist., awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics 1967.
1908 ~ Birthday of Thurgood Marshall, U. S. Supreme Court justice.
1932 ~ New York Gov. Franklin D. Roosevelt became the Democratic nominee for president at their convention in Chicago.
1937 ~ Amelia Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan disappeared over the Pacific Ocean.
1961 ~ Death of Ernest Hemingway, Author, awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature 1954.
1976 ~ Reunification of North and South Vietnam as 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 into history and to a height of 11,000 feet.
2002 ~ Steve Fossett became the first man to fly a balloon solo around the world.
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