"The Civil War - Episode One: The Cause (1861)"
(Tuesday, July 9, 1861) — Civil War diarist Mary Chestnut expresses hope for “our battle summer. May it be our first and our last, so called. After all we have not had any of the horrors of war.”
Warren and Florence Harding married
(Wednesday, July 8, 1891) — Future U.S. President Warren G. Harding, 25, today married Florence Kling DeWolfe, 30, a divorcée and the mother of a young son, at his home in Marion, Ohio.
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Jim Morrison: 4 hours to live
(Saturday, July 3, 1971, 1 a.m., Paris; 7 p.m. in New York on July 2) — With 4 hours to live, singer Jim Morrison, front man for the rock group The Doors, takes heroin with his girlfriend Pamela Courson in their apartment and watch home movies.
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‘Sargeant York’ premieres in U.S.
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Sergeant York Movie Trailer Re-Release Version
(Wednesday, July 2, 1941) — Sergeant York, a biographical film about the life of Alvin York, the most-decorated American soldier of World War I, premiered today in the U.S. It was directed by Howard Hawks and starred Gary Cooper.
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Jim Morrison: 11 hours to live
(Friday, July 2, 1971, 6 p.m., Paris) — With 11 hours to live, singer Jim Morrison, front man for the rock group The Doors, goes out again with old friend Alan Ronay for one last drink and then meets up with girlfriend Pamela Courson to see the 1947 Robert Mitchum film “Pursued.”
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Jim Morrison: 15 hours to live
(Friday, July 2, 1971, 2 p.m., Paris) — With 15 hours to live, singer Jim Morrison, front man for the rock group The Doors, suffers hiccup attacks while hanging out and having lunch with old friend Alan Ronay.
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Jim Morrison: 18 hours to live
(Friday, July 2, 1971, 11 a.m., Paris) — With 18 hours to live, singer Jim Morrison, front man for the rock group The Doors, hangs out with old friend Alan Ronay.
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Jim Morrison: 24 hours to live
(Friday, July 2, 1971, 5 a.m., Paris) — With 24 hours to live, singer Jim Morrison, front man for the rock group The Doors, is sleeping in his apartment.
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‘Terminator 2: Judgment Day’ premieres in California
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Terminator 2: Judgment Day Trailer (HD)
(Monday, July 1, 1991) — Terminator 2: Judgment Day, a science fiction action film directed, co-written, and co-produced by James Cameron and starring Arnold Schwarzenegger, Linda Hamilton, Edward Furlong, and Robert Patrick, premiered today in Century City, California.
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Roosevelt library dedicated
FDR Dedicates His Library
(Monday, June 30, 1941) — U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt dedicated today the $350,000 library which bears his name with a declaration of faith in the future of free America.
