Day Two at Gettysburg – Today In Southern History – Dixie Drudge

2 July 1863

Other Years:

1776 – Richard Henry Lee of Virginia’s resolution that the American colonies “are, and of right ought to be, free and independent States” was adopted by the Continental Congress.
1810 – Confederate statesman and general, Robert Augustus Toombs was born in Washington, Georgia.
1843 – An alligator fell from sky during a thunderstorm into the streets of Charleston, South Carolina.
1947 – An object crashed near Roswell, New Mexico that the U.S. Army Air Force insisted was a weather balloon, but eyewitness accounts claimed was an alien spacecraft.
1962 – The first Wal-Mart Discount City opened in Rogers, Arkansas.
1964 – U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson signed the Civil Rights Act of 1964, the most sweeping civil rights legislation since Reconstruction.
1980 – U.S. President Jimmy Carter re-instated draft registration for males 18 years of age.
1998 – Atlanta-based CNN retracted a story it aired that alleged that U.S. troops had used nerve gas to kill American defectors during the Vietnam War.