Here’s a look back at what happened in the Chicago area on July 2, according to the Tribune’s archives.
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Front page flashback: July 3, 1937
1937: Amelia Earhart, who attended Hyde Park High School, and her navigator, Capt. Fred Noonan, disappeared over the Pacific Ocean during Earhart’s second attempt to become the first woman to circumnavigate the globe.
When they disappeared, Earhart and Noonan were on leg 31 of 34. They had covered 22,000 miles with 7,000 miles to go, according to the National Air and Space Museum.
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Weather records (from the National Weather Service, Chicago)
- High temperature: 99 degrees (1970)
- Low temperature: 49 degrees (2001)
- Precipitation: 3.35 inches (2023)
- Snowfall: Trace (1933)
1904: Riverview Park opened.
1932: Franklin D. Roosevelt became the first presidential candidate to deliver his acceptance speech during his political party’s convention in Chicago.
Vintage Chicago Tribune: Chicago Cubs who have hit for the cycle
1957: Lee Walls hit for the cycle. The “often lose but never quit” Chicago Cubs lost to the Cincinnati Reds in 10 innings, but the 24-year-old outfielder’s cycle became the first in Major League Baseball in almost three years.
1976: Artist Marc Chagall announced he was giving Chicago a bicentennial gift — eight stained-glass windows called “America Windows,” which depict American ideas and symbols. The windows were installed in 1977.
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