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On July 2
1857 New York City's first elevated railroad officially opened for business.
1890 The U.S. Congress passed the Sherman Antitrust Act.
1937 American aviation pioneer, Amelia Earhart, disappeared in the Central Pacific during an attempt to fly around the world at the equator.
1947 An object crashed near Roswell, NM. The U.S. Army Air Force insisted it was a weather balloon, but eyewitness accounts led to speculation that it might have been an alien spacecraft.
1961 Ernest Hemingway shot himself to death at his home in Ketchum, ID.
1964 U.S. President Johnson signed the "Civil Rights Act of 1964" into law. The act made it illegal in the U.S. to discriminate against others because of their race.
1976 The U.S. Supreme Court ruled that the death penalty was not inherently cruel or unusual.
1980 U.S. President Jimmy Carter reinstated draft registration for males 18 years of age.
1985 General Motors announced that it was installing electronic road maps as an option in some of its higher-priced cars.
1994 Colombian soccer player, Andres Escobar, was shot to death in Medellin. Ten days earlier he had accidentally scored a goal against his own team in the World Cup competition.
1998 The Cable News Network retracted a story that alleged that U.S. commandos had used nerve gas to kill American defectors during the Vietnam War.


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