Celebration Excuse
SO YOU HAD A BAD DAY
Today’s actually not an excuse celebrate. It’s a real trainwreck of a day with suicides, murders, mysterious disappearances and people being swept away by Niagara Falls. It turns out July 2 is a very, very bad day.
1556
He never saw it coming: The philosopher/psychic Nostradamus dies in France.
1839
Mutiny on the slave ship Amistad.
1881
President James Garfield is shot while waiting for a train in DC. He will later die from this wound on September 18.
1903
Early baseball great Ed Delahanty is swept into NiagraFalls after being kicked off a train. He died.
1937
Amelia Earhart disappears without a trace over the South Pacific
1947
It’s Roswell Day: An Unidentified Flying Object crashes in Roswell, NM. The Army Air Force claims it was a weather balloon; witnesses say it was an alien spacecraft. Let a generation of conspiracy theories begin.
1961
Writer Ernest Hemingway commits suicide in Idaho. He was 61.
1976
The Supreme Court rules the death penalty is neither cruel nor unusual.
1994
Andres Escobar, a Colombian soccer player, is shot to death 10 days after he accidentally scored a goal for the opposing team in the World Cup.
A BRIGHT LIGHT
1964
Lyndon B. Johnson signs the Civil Rights Act, once and for all banning segregation, racism and discrimination based on sex, skin color or religion.
AT LEAST WE HAVE CAKE
1908: Thurgood Marshall, first black justice on the Supreme Court.
1947: Larry David, star of Curb Your Enthusiasm.
1986: Lindsay Lohan is finally 21. She’s spending her birthday in rehab.
Daybook
POTUS
President Bush and Russian President Vladimir Putin meet with reporters at the Bush family summer home in Kennebunkport, Maine to talk about how much fun they had fishing.
STUMPIN’
Mitt Romney gets personal with"Ask Mitt Anything” events in Jefferson, and Carroll Iowa. He also speaks at the Iowa Christian Alliance house party in Council Bluffs, Iowa.
Senator Barack Obama holds a “meet the candidate” event in Laconia then gets funky at a house party in Concord, N.H.
Michelle Obama holds a Women for Obama Kick-Off in Simpsonville, S.C.
Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton, Senator Chris Dodd, and John Edwards speak to the National Education Association in Philadelphia.
Hillary later meets up with her rock star husband to hold a rally in Des Moines.
Senator Joseph R. Biden attends a house party and talks with the gay community in Iowa City, Iowa.
Senator Sam Brownback tours Lincolnway Energy in Nevada, Iowa, then gets his snack on with a barbecue in Boone and holds a coffee event in State Center, Iowa.
ON THE HILL
You’re kidding, right? With Congress out of session, you could hear a pin drop in this town.
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Letterman: Luke Wilson, pianoman Rufus Wainwright
Leno: (Repeat) Fellow late-nighter Conan O’Brian, Kings of Leon
Conan: (Repeat) Dana Carvey, The Arctic Monkeys
Kimmel: Ashley Judd
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