On this day: July 2

POSTED: 11:01 AM PDT Jun 27, 2012    UPDATED: 11:00 PM PDT Jul 01, 2012 

A president is shot, a Supreme Court justice is born, aliens land -- or not -- and an acting legend passes, all on this day in history.

July 2 OTD - Roswell
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1947: An object crashes near Roswell, N.M. The U.S. Army Air Force insists it's a weather balloon, but eyewitness accounts lead to speculation that it might have been an alien spacecraft.

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