Daily Calendar for Wednesday, July 2, 2025
Died
- Nostradamus (physician, astrologer) –
- Ernest Hemingway (writer) –
- Betty Grable (actress) –
- Jimmy Stewart (actor) –
- Mario Puzo (author) –
- Ernest Lehman (screenwriter) –
Born
- Sir Charles Tupper (6th Prime Minister of Canada) –
- Hermann Hesse (author) –
- Jean-Rene Lacoste (tennis player) –
- Thurgood Marshall (first African American justice of the Supreme Court) –
- Medgar Evers (civil rights leader) –
- Imelda Marcos (First Lady of the Philippines) –
- Richard Petty (race car driver) –
- Polly Holliday (actress) –
- Larry David (actor, writer, producer, & director) –
- Jose Canseco (baseball player) –
- Michelle Branch (musician) –
- Ashley Tisdale (actress) –
- Lindsay Lohan (actress) –
- Margo Robbie (actress) –
Events
- Morrill Act passed –
- Charles Guiteau shot and fatally wounded U.S. President James Garfield –
- The Sherman Antitrust Act was passed –
- Amelia Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan disappeared over the Pacific Ocean while attempting to make the first round-the-world flight at the equator –
- Lake Washington Floating Bridge dedicated in Seattle, Washington –
- The Lawrence Welk Show made its television debut –
- Civil Rights Act signed into law –
- Steve Fossett became the first person to circumnavigate the world solo in a balloon –
Weather
- An alligator was reported to have fallen from the sky at Charleston, S.C., on Anson Street during a thunderstorm –
- Northeast Texas was pelted with softball-size hail, and Dallas experienced wind gusts of 90 mph –
- 89-mph wind gust occurred in Lavon Dam, Texas –
- An F3 tornado touched down in the Kawacatoose First Nation community in Raymore, Saskatchewan –
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