July 2
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July 2 is the 184th day of the year (185th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 181 days remaining after July 2 until the end of the year. In a Common year of the Gregorian calendar, this date marks the half-way point of the year. This would be at 12 noon (or 1 p.m. if Daylight Saving Time is used). In a Leap year, the half-way point is at midnight between the 1 and 2 July (or 1 a.m. on July 2 if Daylight Saving Time is used). Every year, this date falls on the same day of the week as New Year's Eve, and it also falls on the same day of the week as New Year's Day in Common years.
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[change] Births
- 419 – Valentinian III, Roman Emperor (d. 455)
- 1489 – Thomas Cranmer, Archbishop of Canterbury (d. 1556)
- 1714 – Christoph Willibald von Gluck, German composer (d. 1787)
- 1724 – Friedrich Gottlieb Klopstock, German poet (d. 1803)
- 1821 – Charles Tupper, shortest-serving Prime Minister of Canada (d. 1915)
- 1862 – William Henry Bragg, English physicist (d. 1942)
- 1876 – Wilhelm Cuno, Chancellor of Germany (d. 1933)
- 1877 – Hermann Hesse, German writer (d. 1962)
- 1882 – Marie Bonaparte, French psychoanalyst and author (d. 1962)
- 1884 – Alfons Maria Jakob, German neurologist (d. 1931)
- 1903 – King Olav V of Norway (d. 1991)
- 1903 – Alec Douglas-Home, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (d. 1995)
- 1904 – Rene Lacoste, French tennis player and businessman (d. 1996)
- 1906 – Hans Bethe, German physicist (d. 2005)
- 1908 – Thurgood Marshall, United States Supreme Court Justice (d. 1993)
- 1917 – Murry Wilson, American songwriter and record producer (d. 1973)
- 1923 – Wislawa Szymborska, Polish poet
- 1925 – Patrice Lumumba, Congolese politician (d. 1961)
- 1925 – Medgar Evans, American civil rights activist (d. 1963)
- 1929 – Imelda Marcos, former First Lady of the Philippines
- 1930 – Carlos Menem, former President of Argentina
- 1932 – Dave Thomas, founder of Wendy's fast food chain (d. 2002)
- 1937 – Polly Holliday, American actress
- 1940 – Kenneth Clarke, British politician
- 1942 – Vicente Fox, former President of Mexico
- 1946 – Richard Axel, American neuroscientist
- 1946 – Ron Silver, American actor (d. 2009)
- 1947 – Larry David, American television producer
- 1949 – Roy Bittan, American musician
- 1952 – Ahmed Ouyahia, Prime Minister of Algeria
- 1954 – Chris Huhne, British politician
- 1964 – Jose Canseco, Cuban-American baseball player
- 1964 – Ozzie Canseco, Cuban-American baseball player
- 1973 – Peter Kay, British comedian
- 1979 – Joe Thornton, Canadian ice hockey player
- 1980 – Alexander Petersson, Latvian-Icelandic handball player
- 1984 – Johnny Weir, American figure skater
- 1985 – Ashley Tisdale, American actress and singer
- 1986 – Lindsay Lohan, American actress
- 1987 – Ruslana Korshunova, Kazakhstani model (d. 2008)
- 1988 – Lee Chung-Yong, South Korean footballer
[change] Deaths
- 862 – Swithun, Anglo-Saxon bishop of Winchester (b. 789)
- 1566 – Nostradamus, French astrologer (b. 1503)
- 1778 – Jean-Jacques Rousseau, French philosopher (b. 1712)
- 1822 – Denmark Vesey, freed slave (b. 1767) (hanged)
- 1833 – Gervasio Antonio de Posadas, Argentine politician (b. 1757)
- 1843 – Samuel Hahnemann, German physician (b. 1755)
- 1850 – Robert Peel, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1788)
- 1903 – Ed Delahanty, American baseball player (b. 1867)
- 1915 – Porfirio Diaz, President of Mexico (b. 1830)
- 1932 – King Manuel II of Portugal (b. 1889)
- 1934 – Ernst Roehm, Nazi politician (b. 1887)
- 1937 – Amelia Earhart, American aviatrix (b. 1897)
- 1937 – Fred Noonan, American aviator (b. 1893)
- 1961 – Ernest Hemingway, American writer (b. 1899)
- 1973 – Betty Grable, American actress (b. 1916)
- 1977 – Vladimir Nabokov, Russian writer (b. 1899)
- 1989 – Andrei Gromyko, Soviet politician (b. 1909)
- 1994 – Andres Escobar, Colombian footballer (b. 1967)
- 1997 – James Stewart, American actor (b. 1908)
- 1999 – Mario Puzo, American writer (b. 1920)
- 2007 – Beverly Sills, American operatic soprano (b. 1929)
- 2010 – Beryl Bainbridge, British writer (b. 1932)
- 2010 – Laurent Terzieff, French actor (b. 1935)
- 2011 – Itamar Franco, 33rd President of Brazil (b. 1930)
[change] Events
- 1494 – The Treaty of Tordesillas is ratified by Spain.
- 1578 – Martin Frobisher becomes the first European to reach Baffin Island.
- 1776 – The Continental Congress adopts a resolution, severing ties with Great Britain.
- 1777 – Vermont abolishes Slavery.
- 1839 – Near Cuba, 53 rebelling African slaves take over the ship, Amistad.
- 1860 – The Russian city of Vladivostok is founded as a naval post.
- 1871 – Vittorio Emanuele II of Italy enters Rome, having conquered it from the Papal States.
- 1881 – Charles J. Guiteau shoots US President James A. Garfield, who dies of an infection on September 19.
- 1897 – Guglielmo Marconi gets a patent for the radio in London.
- 1928 – British women over the age of 21 are given the right to vote.
- 1934 – The Night of the Long Knives ends with the death of Ernst Roehm.
- 1937 – Amelia Earhart and Fred Noonan go missing.
- 1962 – The first Wal-Mart store opens in Rodgers, Arkansas.
- 1964 – US President Lyndon B. Johnson signs the Civil Rights Act of 1964.
- 1966 – France carries out its first nuclear test at Mururoa Atoll in the South Pacific Ocean.
- 1994 – Andres Escobar, Colombian footballer, is shot dead. The killer's motive was his own goal in the FIFA World Cup.
- 2000 – Vicente Fox is elected President of Mexico.
- 2002 – Steve Fossett becomes the first person to travel solo around the world in a hot-air balloon.
- 2003 – Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi insults German MEP Martin Schulz, comparing him to a Concentration camp guard.
- 2005 – Live 8 concerts take place worldwide.
- 2008 – After a captivity of more than six years, Ingrid Betancourt is released from FARC Guerrillas in Colombia.
- 2010 – A tanker explosion in the Eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo kills more than 230 people.
- 2011 – Albert II, Prince of Monaco marries Charlene Wittstock.
- 2011 – Petra Kvitova wins the Women's Singles tennis title at Wimbledon, defeating Maria Sharapova 6-3, 6-4.
[change] Observances
- Canada Day (observed on this date if July 1 is a Sunday)
