Happy Birthday Mary Lynn, Wife to Kevin & Mother to Kevin Michael and Bee Catherine ...

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Mary Lynn, today is your Birthday and on this date in history...

American jockey Steve Cauthen wins the Irish Derby on "Old Vic" to become the first rider in history to sweep the world's 4 major Derbies (Kentucky, Epsom, French, Irish) in 1989

Religious Theologian and Founder of Protestantism Martin Luther has an encounter with a violent thunderstorm and declares that he will become a monk in 1505

Young Elvis Presley (21) records "Hound Dog" and "Don't Be Cruel" at the RCA studios in New York City in 1956

Lincoln signs the Morrill Act granting land for state agricultural colleges in 1862

Your average two foot long alligator rained down out of the sky on this date in Charleston, South Carolina in 1843

None other than Thurgood Marshall, 1st African American Supreme Court justice (1967-91), born in Baltimore, Maryland (d. 1993) in 1908

Number one song on July 2nd was "Cara Mia" by David Whitfield in 1954. It was on the Billboard Top 40 for 11 weeks in 1965 by Jay and the Americans

First steam engine is patented by English engineer Thomas Savery in 1698

O n this date in 1776 the Continental Congress resolves "these United Colonies are and of right ought to be Free and Independent States" which is formally known as the Lee Resolution

Lyndon B. Johnson, 36th President, signs into law the historic Civil Rights Act on this date in 1964 in a nationally televised ceremony at the White House

Enroute to Howland Island from Lae, New Guinea in the Pacific Ocean Amelia Earhart disappeared in 1937

Your 1st operation for a fully self-contained artificial heart called "AbioCor" took place on Robert L. Tools by Dr. Joseph Fredi on this date in 2001

Happy Birthday Lindsay Lohan born in 1986. Famous for the comedy The Parent Trap, Jenni Rivera ( 1969 ) ( Singer - Ahora Que Estuviste Lejos ), Larry David ( Producer and writer of the hit NBC series Seinfeld ), William Singe ( Singer - Thinking Out Loud )

Assassination of #20, President James Garfield on this date in 1881

Peter Rabbit 1 & 2 narrater, Bird of Prey and Suicide Squad actress Margot Robbie was born on this date in 1990

Popular retail store Walmart (then known as Wal-Mart) opens first store in Rogers, Arkansas; it was the start of what would become the largest retail sales chain in the United States in 1962

Your July 2nd holidays are National I Forgot Day, World UFO Day, Freedom From Fear of Speaking Day, Made in the USA Day, National Anisette Day, Special Recreation for the Disabled Day, World Sports Journalists Day.

Battle of Gettysburg, fought from July 1st to July 3rd, is considered the most important engagement of The American Civil War in 1863

I n 1791 - the Treaties of or on the Holston was a treaty between the United States government and the Cherokee nation.

Rigid airship Zeppelin LZ-1's first flight, a dirigible airship designed by Graf Ferdinand von Zeppelin, was on this date at Lake Constance near Friedrichshafen, Germany in 1900

The Salvation Army is established by Methodist Reform Church minister William Booth and his wife Catherine when they founded the East London Christian Mission in 1865

Hemingway ended his life in Ketchum, Idaho. Ernest Hemingway (July 21, 1899 – July 2, 1961) famous for "The Sun Also Rises" and "The Old Man and the Sea" was 61 at the time of his death in 1961

Day 183 of the year is July 2nd, considered the "Midpoint" of a common year because there are 182 days before and 182 days after it in common years. The exact time of the middle of the year is at noon.

Anthony C. McAuliffe, USMA 1919, was born on this date in 1898 and was Commander of the 101st Airborne Division on D-Day and who replied to the Nazi ultimatum to surrender at Bastogne "Nuts!”

You are the unique Mary Lynn who conquered Connecticut, mastered the Foley Clan and always give everyone Rhode Island "Hope" ...