FRIDAY, JULY 2, 2010

Today is Friday, July 2, the 183rd day of 2010. There are 182 days left in the year.

1776 _ Continental Congress resolves ``These United Colonies are and of right ought to be Free and Independent States"

1787 _ De Sade shouts from Bastille that prisoners are being slaughtered

1843 _ An alligator falls from the sky during a Charleston SC thunderstorm

1858 _ Partial emancipation of Russian serfs

1932 _ FDR makes first presidential nominating conventional acceptance speech

1956 _ Elvis Presley records ``Hound Dog" & ``Don't Be Cruel"

1964 _ President Johnson signs Civil Rights Act

1976 _ Formal reunification of North and South Vietnam

1976 _ Supreme Court ruled death penalty not inherently cruel or unusual

1990 _ Imelda Marcos and Adnan Khashoggi found not guilty of racketeering