Updated July 1, 2012, 2:29 pm
On July 2, 1937, aviator Amelia Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan disappeared over the Pacific Ocean while attempting to make the first round-the-world flight at the equator.
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On July 2, 1908, Thurgood Marshall, the leader of the legal battle against segregated schools and the first black member of the U.S. Supreme Court, was born. Following his death on Jan. 24, 1993, his obituary appeared in The Times.
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Historic Birthdays
Thurgood Marshall 7/2/1908 – 1/24/1993 American civil rights lawyer and first African-American Supreme Court justice.Go to obituary »
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Thomas Cranmer 7/2/1489 – 3/21/1556
English religious leader; first Protestant archbishop of Canterbury |
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Christoph Gluck 7/2/1714 – 11/15/1787
German composer |
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Richard Henry Stoddard 7/2/1825 – 5/12/1903
American poet, critic and editor |
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Frederick Gates 7/2/1853 – 2/6/1929
American philanthropist and businessman |
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Clarence Barron 7/2/1855 – 10/2/1928
American financial editor and publisher |
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Hermann Hesse 7/2/1877 – 8/9/1962
German novelist and poet; awared Nobel Prize for Literature (1946) |
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Hugh Dryden 7/2/1898 – 12/2/1965
American physicist and deputy administrator of NASA (1958-65) |
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Sir Tyrone Guthrie 7/2/1900 – 5/15/1971
English theatrical director |
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Sir Alec Douglas-Home 7/2/1903 – 10/9/1995
British prime minister (1963-4) and foreign secretary (1960-3, 1970-4) |
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Medgar Evers 7/2/1925 – 6/12/1963
American civil-rights activist; assassinated in 1963 |
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Patrice Lumumba 7/2/1925 – 1/17/1961
Congolese independence leader and prime minister (1960) |
