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July 2
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 (of non-leap years) and New Year's Eve.
Events
1500-1899
1900-1999
- 1900 - First zeppelin flight on Lake Constance near Friedrichshafen, Germany.
- 1917 - 48 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.
- 1940 - The Battle of Britain begins.
- 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.
- 1964 - U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson signs the Civil Rights Act and Voting Rights Act into law.
- 1973 - James R. Schlesinger is sworn in as the 12th United States Secretary of Defense.
- 1976 - North and South Vietnam, divided since 1954, reunite to form the Socialist Republic of Vietnam.
- 1978 - Charon, a satellite of the planet Pluto, is discovered.
- 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.
- 1985 - Andrei Gromyko is appointed President of the Soviet Union.
2000-2099
- 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 continious rule from the Partido Revolucionario Institucional (PRI).
- 2002 - Steve Fossett becomes the first person to fly solo around the world nonstop in a balloon.
Births
400-1899
- 419 - Valentinian III, Roman Emperor (d. 455)
- 1489 - Thomas Cranmer, Archbishop of Canterbury (d. 1556)
- 1644 - Abraham a Santa Clara , court vicar (d. 1709)
- 1714 - Christoph Willibald Gluck, composer (d. 1787)
- 1724 - Friedrich Gottlieb Klopstock, poet (d. 1803)
- 1821 - Sir Charles Tupper, Father of Canadian Confederation, sixth Prime Minister of Canada (d. 1915)
- 1862 - William Henry Bragg, physicist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in physics 1915 (d. 1942)
- 1865 - Lily Braun, writer (d. 1916)
- 1877 - Hermann Hesse, writer, recipient of the Nobel Prize in literature 1946 (d. 1962)
- 1884 - Alfons Maria Jakob, neurologist (d. 1931)
1900-1999
- 1900 - Tyrone Guthrie, actor, Artistic Director of Canada's Stratford Festival, (d. 1971)
- 1903 - Olav V, King of Norway (d. 1991)
- 1903 - Sir Alec Douglas-Home, Prime Minister of the UK (d. 1995)
- 1906 - Hans Bethe, Nobel-winning nuclear physicist
- 1908 - Thurgood Marshall, US Supreme Court Justice (d. 1993)
- 1923 - Wisława Szymborska, Polish poet (Nobel Prize, 1996)
- 1925 - Patrice Lumumba, Prime Minister of Congo (Leopoldville) (d. 1961)
- 1925 - Medgar Evers, civil rights activist (d. 1963)
- 1927 - Ruth Berghaus , choreographer/film director (d. 1996)
- 1929 - Imelda Marcos, former First Lady of the Philippines
- 1930 - Carlos Menem, former President of Argentina
- 1931 - Robert Ito , actor, ballet dancer
- 1932 - Dave Thomas, founder of Wendy's International (d. 2002)
- 1937 - Richard Petty, NASCAR driver
- 1940 - Larry Jacober , teacher, principal & superintendent of Carbondale Elementary Schools
- 1942 - Vicente Fox, president of Mexico
- 1946 - Richard Axel, Nobel prize winning scientist
- 1947 - Larry David, co-creator of Seinfeld
- 1955 - Andrew Divoff, actor
- 1956 - Jerry Hall, actress/model, ex-wife of Mick Jagger
- 1957 - Bret "Hitman" Hart, pro wrestler
- 1958 - Thomas Bickerton, United Methodist Bishop
- 1959 - Mike Hallett, English snooker player
- 1964 - Jose Canseco, baseball player
- 1964 - Andrea Pia Yates, mother who drowned her five children
- 1970 - Yancy Butler, actress
- 1971 - Evelyn Lau, pop author
- 1974 - Matthew Reilly, Australian author
- 1976 - Tomas Vokoun, NHL hockey player
- 1981 - Alex Koroknay-Palicz, youth rights activist
- 1983 - Michelle Branch, popular musician
- 1986 - Lindsay Lohan, actress
Deaths
800-1899
1900-1999
- 1912 - Tom Richardson, great fast bowler and record-breaking wicket-taker for Surrey between 1893 and 1897 (b. 1870).
- 1932 - King Manuel II of Portugal
- 1937 - Amelia Earhart, aviator, disappears
- 1961 - Ernest Hemingway, author, winner of the Nobel Prize for literature (1954)
- 1964 - Glenn "Fireball" Roberts, NASCAR 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, actress
- 1977 - Vladimir Nabokov, writer
- 1989 - Andrei Gromyko, Soviet foreign minister
- 1991 - Lee Remick, actress
- 1997 - James Stewart, actor
- 1999 - Mario Puzo, author (b. 1920)
2000-2099
Holidays and observances
External links
July 1 - July 3 - June 2 - August 2 -- listing of all days
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