LOCAL HEADLINES
- Occupy reports 28 Arrested (Inquirer)
- Hite Named School Superintendent (Tribune)
- Philly Folks Cope with Heat Wave (6ABC)
- Hot and muggy
- HIGHS: 90°
- WIND: NW 12 mph
TODAY IN HISTORY
- 1964 – President Lyndon B. Johnson signs into law the historic Civil Rights Act in a nationally televised ceremony at the White House.
- 1776 – The Second Continental Congress, assembled in Philadelphia, formally adopts a resolution for independence from Great Britain.
- 1933 – The Lockheed aircraft carrying American aviator Amelia Earhart is reported missing near Howland Island in the Pacific.
- 1881 – President James A. Garfield, who had been in office just under four months, is shot by an assassin. Garfield lingered for 80 days before dying of complications from the shooting.
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