A bit of July 2nd history…
1890 - US Congress passes the Sherman Antitrust Law
1901 - Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid rob a train for $40,000 in Montana
1937 - Amelia Earhart and Fred Noonan disappear flying over the Pacific Ocean in route to Howland Island
1962 - Sam Walton opens his first Walmart store in Arkansas
1964 - Lyndon Johnson Signs Civil Rights Act and Voting Rights Act into law
1976 - Formal reunification of North and South Vietnam
2001 - AbioCor, a self-contained artificial heart is created (pictured)
2012 - GlaxoSmithKline sttles the largest healthcare fraud case in history for $3 billion
2015 - BP agrees to compensate US government and gulf states $18.7 billion for the 2010 Gulf of Mexico oil spill
RSS Feed
