Happy Birthday to LAUREN!

Today is Lauren's birthday. Here are a few interesting facts about July 2nd (via Wikipedia):

July 2nd is the 183rd day of the year (184th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 182 days remaining until the end of the year. We are pretty much EXACTLY half way through the year! That's kinda cool, no?

1698 - Thomas Savery patented the first steam engine

1776 - The Continental Congress adopts a resolution severing ties with Great Britain although the wording of the formal Declaration of Independence is not approved until July 4.

1777 - Vermont becomes the first American territory to abolish slavery.

1863 - American Civil War: second day of the Battle of Gettysburg.

1900 - First zeppelin flight takes place on Lake Constance near Friedrichshafen, Germany.

1937 - Amelia Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan disappear over the Pacific Ocean while attempting to make the first equatorial round-the-world flight.

1962 - The first Wal-Mart store opens for business in Rogers, Arkansas.

1964 - President Lyndon B. Johnson signs the Civil Rights Act of 1964, which prohibits segregation in public places.

1979 - The first U.S. coin to honor a woman, the Susan B. Anthony dollar, is introduced.

2002 - Steve Fossett becomes the first person to fly solo around the world nonstop in a balloon.

Also born on July 2nd:
1492 - Elizabeth Tudor, English princess (d. 1495)
1849 - Maria Theresia of Austria-Este, queen of Bavaria (d. 1919)
1890 - Earl Roy Curry, religious thinker and Kirtland Temple overseer (d. 1980)
1908 - Thurgood Marshall, American Supreme Court Justice (d. 1993)
1932 - Dave Thomas, American fast food entrepreneur (d. 2002)
1953 - Mark Hart, British musician (Crowded House and Supertramp)
1973 - Peter Kay, British comedian
1983 - Michelle Branch, American Singer (The Wreckers)
1985 - Ashley Tisdale, American actress and singer
1986 - Lindsay Lohan, American actress and singer

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