July 2

is the 183rd day of the year (184th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 182 days remaining.

It is the middle day of a non-leap year, because there are 182 days before and 182 days after. It falls on the same day of the week as New Year's Day (on non-leap years).

Events

1298 - The Battle of Göllheim is fought between Albert I of Habsburg and Adolf of Nassau-Weilburg.
1561 - Menas, Emperor of Ethiopia defeats a revolt in Emfraz.
1578 - Martin Frobisher sights Baffin Island.
1613 - First English expedition from Massachusetts against Acadia - led by Samuel Argall.
1644 - English Civil War: Battle of Marston Moor.
1679 - Europeans first visit Minnesota and see headwaters of Mississippi - led by Daniel Greysolon de Du Luth.
1776 - The Continental Congress adopts a resolution severing ties with Great Britain, though a formal Declaration of Independence is not adopted until July 4.
1777 - Vermont becomes the first American state to abolish slavery.
1808 - Simon Fraser reaches Pacific near New Westminster.
1839 - Twenty miles off the coast of Cuba, 53 rebelling African slaves led by Joseph Cinque take over the slave ship Amistad.
1850 - The self-contained gas mask is patented by Benjamin J. Lane.
1853 - The Russian Army invades Turkey, beginning the Crimean War.
1863 - American Civil War: Second day of the Battle of Gettysburg.
1878 - The Brighton Beach Line (now the BMT Brighton Line) opens in the then-city of Brooklyn.
1881 - Charles J. Guiteau shoots and fatally wounds U.S. President James Garfield, who eventually dies from infection on September 19.
1890 - The U.S. Congress passes the Sherman Anti-Trust Act.
1900 - First zeppelin flight on Lake Constance near Friedrichshafen, Germany.
1917 - Forty-eight die in rioting in East St. Louis, Illinois, as lower-paid black laborers clash with whites.
1937 - Amelia Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan disappear over the Pacific Ocean while attempting to make the first round-the-world flight at the equator.
1947 - An object speculated to be a UFO crashes near Roswell, New Mexico, though the United States Air Force claims it is a weather balloon.
1950 - Henri Queuille becomes Prime Minister of France.
1962 - The first Wal-Mart store opens for business in Rogers, Arkansas.
1964 - President Lyndon B. Johnson signs the Civil Rights Act of 1964, which prohibits segregation in public places.
1966 - The French military explode their nuclear test bomb codenamed Aldébaran in Mururoa, their first nuclear test in the Pacific.
1969 - The Jimi Hendrix Experience break up.
1973 - Match Game begins its 1970s run.
1976 - North and South Vietnam, divided since 1954, reunite to form the Socialist Republic of Vietnam.
1979 - The first U.S. coin to honor a woman, the Susan B. Anthony dollar, is introduced.
1982 - Larry Walters uses 45 helium balloons and a lawnchair to propel himself to 16,000 feet.
1983 - The Police release their final album, "Synchronicity", which would eventually spend 17 weeks at #1 on the U.S. album chart
1985 - Andrei Gromyko is appointed the chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union.
1990 - A stampede inside a pedestrian tunnel leads to the deaths of 1,426 pilgrims in Mecca during hajj.
2000 - Vicente Fox Quesada is elected the first President of México from an opposition party, the Partido Acción Nacional (PAN) after more than 70 years of continuous rule by the Partido Revolucionario Institucional (PRI).
2002 - Steve Fossett becomes the first person to fly solo around the world nonstop in a balloon.
2003 - International Olympic Committee selects Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada to host the 2010 Winter Olympics.
2004 - ASEAN Regional Forum (ARF) accepted Pakistan as the 24th member.
2005 - Ten Live 8 concerts are held around the world in an attempt to force G8 countries to address poverty.

Births

419 - Valentinian III, Roman Emperor (d. 455)
1029 - Caliph Al-Mustansir of Cairo (d. 1094)
1262 - Arthur II, Duke of Brittany (d. 1312)
1489 - Thomas Cranmer, Archbishop of Canterbury (d. 1556)
1647 - Daniel Finch, 2nd Earl of Nottingham, English privy councilor (d. 1730)
1665 - Samuel Penhallow, English-born American colonist and historian (d. 1726)
1714 - Christoph Willibald von Gluck, German composer (d. 1787)
1724 - Friedrich Gottlieb Klopstock, German poet (d. 1803)
1821 - Charles Tupper, sixth Prime Minister of Canada (d. 1915)
1856 - Bal Gangadhar Tilak, Indian nationalist leader (d. 1920)
1862 - William Henry Bragg, English physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1942)
1865 - Lily Braun, German writer (d. 1916)
1876 - Wilhelm Cuno, Chancellor of Germany (d. 1933)
1877 - Hermann Hesse, German-born writer, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1962)
1884 - Alfons Maria Jakob, German neurologist (d. 1931)
1900 - Tyrone Guthrie, English actor (d. 1971)
1903 - Alec Douglas-Home, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (d. 1995)
1903 - King Olav V of Norway (d. 1991)
1906 - Hans Bethe, German-born nuclear physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2005)
1908 - Thurgood Marshall, U. S. Supreme Court Justice (d. 1993)
1914 - Frederick Fennell, American conductor (d. 2004)
1914 - Mário Schenberg, Brazilian physicist (d. 1990)
1916 - Ken Curtis, American actor and singer (d. 1991)
1916 - Hans-Ulrich Rudel, German pilot (d. 1982)
1918 - Wibo, Dutch cartoonist (d. 2005)
1923 - Wisława Szymborska, Polish writer, Nobel Prize laureate
1925 - Medgar Evers, American civil rights activist (d. 1963)
1925 - Patrice Lumumba, Prime Minister of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (d. 1961)
1927 - Brock Peters, American actor
1929 - Imelda Marcos, First Lady of the Philippines
1930 - Carlos Menem, President of Argentina
1932 - Dave Thomas, American fast food entrepreneur (d. 2002)
1933 - Kenny Wharram, Canadian hockey player
1937 - Polly Holliday, American actress
1937 - Richard Petty, American race car driver
1939 - John H. Sununu, White House Chief of Staff under George HW Bush
1939 - Alexandros Panagoulis, Greek politician and poet
1940 - Kenneth Harry Clarke, British politician
1942 - Vicente Fox, President of Mexico
1946 - Richard Axel, American scientist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
1946 - Ron Silver, American actor
1947 - Larry David, American television producer
1949 - Roy Bittan, American keyboardist (E Street Band)
1954 - Pete Briquette, English bassist (Boomtown Rats)
1955 - Andrew Divoff, Venezuelan actor
1955 - Kevin Michael Grace, Canadian journalist and blogger
1956 - Jerry Hall, American actress and model
1957 - Bret "Hitman" Hart, Canadian professional wrestler
1958 - Thomas Bickerton, American Methodist bishop
1959 - Mike Hallett, English snooker player
1960 - Terry Rossio, American screenwriter
1964 - Jose Canseco, baseball player
1970 - Yancy Butler, American actress
1970 - Steve Morrow, Irish footballer
1970 - Scotty 2 Hotty, American professional wrestler
1970 - Monie Love, English rapper and disc jockey
1971 - Evelyn Lau, Canadian author
1973 - Peter Kay , British comedian
1974 - Sean Casey, baseball player
1974 - Matthew Reilly, Australian author
1975 - Erik Ohlsson, Swedish guitarist (Millencolin)
1976 - Tomáš Vokoun, Czech hockey player
1978 - Jüri Ratas, Estonian politician
1979 - Sam Hornish, Jr., American race car driver
1979 - Joe Thornton, Canadian hockey player
1981 - Alex Koroknay-Palicz, American youth rights activist
1981 - Angel Pagán, Professional baseball player
1983 - Michelle Branch, American musician
1985 - Ashley Tisdale, American actress
1986 - Lindsay Lohan, American actress and musician

Deaths

862 - St. Swithun, Bishop of Winchester
1298 - Adolf of Nassau-Weilburg, King of the Romans
1504 - Ştefan cel Mare, Prince of Moldova (b. 1434)
1566 - Nostradamus, French astrologer (b. 1503)
1582 - Akechi Mitsuhide, Japanese samurai (b. 1528)
1591 - Vincenzo Galilei, Italian composer (b. 1520)
1621 - Thomas Harriot, English astronomer and mathematician
1656 - François-Marie, comte de Broglie, Italian-born French commander (b. 1611)
1674 - Eberhard III, Duke of Württemberg (b. 1614)
1684 - John Rogers, American President of Harvard University (b. 1630)
1743 - Spencer Compton, 1st Earl of Wilmington, English statesman
1746 - Thomas Baker, English antiquarian (b. 1656)
1778 - Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Swiss philosopher (b. 1712)
1778 - Bathsheba Ruggles, American murderer (executed)
1833 - Gervasio Antonio de Posadas, Argentine politician (b. 1757)
1843 - Samuel Hahnemann, German physician (b. 1755)
1850 - Sir Robert Peel, Prime Minister of Great Britain (b. 1788)
1912 - Tom Richardson, English cricket player (b. 1870)
1915 - Porfirio Díaz, President of Mexico (b. 1830)
1920 - William Louis Marshall, American general and engineer (b. 1846)
1926 - Émile Coué, French psychologist (b. 1857)
1932 - King Manuel II of Portugal (b. 1889)
1934 - Ernst Röhm, Nazi official (b. 1887)
1937 - Amelia Earhart, American aviator (disappeared) (b. 1897)
1961 - Ernest Hemingway, American writer, Nobel Prize laureate (suicide) (b. 1899)
1964 - Glenn "Fireball" Roberts, American race car driver (b. 1929)
1966 - Jan Brzechwa, Polish poet (b. 1900)
1972 - Joseph Fielding Smith, president of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (b. 1876)
1973 - Betty Grable, American actress (b. 1916)
1977 - Vladimir Nabokov, Russian-born writer (b. 1899)
1989 - Andrei Gromyko, Soviet foreign minister (b. 1909)
1991 - Lee Remick, American actress (b. 1935)
1994 - Andrés Escobar, Colombian footballer (murdered) (b. 1967)
1997 - James Stewart, American actor (b. 1908)
1999 - Mario Puzo, American author (b. 1920)
2000 - Joey Dunlop, Irish motorcycle racer (b. 1952)
2004 - Sophia de Mello Breyner Andresen, Portuguese writer and poet (b. 1919)
2004 - John Cullen Murphy, American comic strip artist (b. 1919)
2005 - Ernest Lehman, American screenwriter (b. 1915)
2006 - Jan Murray, American comedian (b. 1916)

Holidays and observances

Originally, in the Roman Catholic Church, the Feast of the Visitation was celebrated on this day, although it has since been transferred to May 31
Palio di Provenzano in Siena, Italy
Feast Day of St. John Regis
Canada Day. Under the Holidays Act, Canada Day is always observed on July 1 unless that date falls on a Sunday, in which case it is observed on July 2.

External links

July 1 - July 3 - June 2 - August 2 -- listing of all days

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Events

Births

Deaths

Holidays and observances

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