July 2

July 2 is the 183rd day of the year (184th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 182 days remaining until the end of the year.

Events

Up to 1900

437 – Emperor Valentinian III begins his reign over the Western Roman Empire.
626 – China: Li Shimin, the future Emperor Taizong of Tang, ambushes and kills his rival brothers Li Yuanji and Li Jiancheng in the Xuanwu Gate Incident.
706 – In China, Emperor Zhongzhong of Tang inters the bodies of relatives in the Qianling Mausoleum, located on Mount Liang, outside Chang'an.
1266 – The Treaty of Perth settles a territorial dispute between Scotland and Norway over the Hebrides and the Isle of Man.
1494 – The Treaty of Tordesillas is ratified by Spain.
1555 – The Ottoman admiral Turgut Reis sacks the city of Paola.
1561 – Menas, Emperor of Ethiopia defeats a revolt in Emfraz.
1578 – Martin Frobisher becomes the first European to reach Baffin Island.
1582 – Battle of Yamazaki: Toyotomo Hideyoshi defeats Akechi Mitsuhide.
1644 – English Civil War: Battle of Marston Moor.
1679 – Europeans visit present-day Minnesota for the first time.
1698 – Thomas Savery patents the first steam engine.
1767 – Philip Carteret's expedition discovers Pitcairn Island in the Southern Pacific Ocean, naming it after sea cadet Robert Pitcairn, who first sighted it.
1776 – The Continental Congress adopts a resolution, severing ties with Great Britain.
1777 – Vermont abolishes Slavery.
1823 – Bahia Independence Day: End of Portuguese rule in Brazil.
1839 – Near Cuba, 53 rebelling African slaves take over the ship, Amistad.
1853 – The Russian Army crosses the Pruth River into the Danubian Principalities – Moldavia and Wallachia – the final spark that set off the Crimean War.
1860 – The Russian city of Vladivostok is founded as a naval post.
1871 – Victor Emmanuel 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.
1900 – The first Zeppelin flight takes place on Lake Constance, near Friedrichshafen, Southern Germany.

1901 – 2000

1921 – World War I: US President Warren G. Harding signs the Knox-Porter Resolution, formally ending the US' state of war with Imperial Germany.
1928 – British women over the age of 21 are given the right to vote.
1934 – The Night of the Long Knives, Adolf Hitler's purge of his political rivals, ends with the death of Ernst Roehm.
1937 – Amelia Earhart and Fred Noonan go missing while flying over the Pacific Ocean. No remains are ever found, and many conspiracy theories have come out of their disappearance.
1940 – Indian independence leader Subhas Chandra Bose is arrested and detained in Calcutta.
1950 – The Golden Pavilion at Kinkaku-ji in Kyoto, Japan, burns down.
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.
1974 – A magnitude 7.4 earthquake strikes Iran, killing 1,200 people.
1976 – Fall of the Republic of Vietnam.
1990 – A mass panic in a pedestrian tunnel in Mecca, Saudi Arabia, kills 1,427 people who were there for the Hajj pilgrimage.
1994 – Andrés 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.
2000 – The France national football team wins UEFA Euro 2000, defeating the Italy national football team 2–1 in extra time.

From 2001

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.
2015 – A ferry capsizes in Ormoc, Leyte, Philippines, killing 62 people.
2016 – A terrorist attack and hostage taking in Dhaka, Bangladesh, results in the deaths of 20 people, mainly non-Bangladeshi citizens.
2016 – Tennis: In a shock result, multiple Grand Slam champion Novak Djokovic is knocked out in the third round at Wimbledon, losing to Sam Querrey in four sets.

Births

From 1976

1977 – Carl Froch, English boxer
1978 – Jüri Ratas, Estonian politician, Prime Minister of Estonia
1978 – Owain Yeoman, Welsh actor
1979 – Walter Davis, American triple jumper
1979 – Joe Thornton, Canadian ice hockey player
1980 – Alexander Petersson, Latvian–Icelandic handball player
1980 – Rachel Brown, English footballer
1983 – Michelle Branch, American singer, songwriter and guitarist
1984 – Ryan Keely, American pornographic actress, columnist and model
1984 – Maarten Martens, Belgian footballer
1984 – Johnny Weir, American figure skater
1985 – Corey Bringas, American actor
1985 – Vlatko Ilievski, Macedonian singer (d. 2018)
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
1988 – Porta, Spanish rapper
1989 – Dev, American singer-songwriter and rapper
1989 – Alex Morgan, American soccer player
1990 – Roman Lob, German singer
1990 – Margot Robbie, Australian actress
1990 – Danny Rose, English footballer
1992 – Madison Chock, American ice dancer
1993 – Deysi Cori, Peruvian chess player

Deaths

Up to 1900

626 – Li Jiancheng, Chinese prince (b. 589)
626 – Li Yuanji, Chinese prince (b. 603)
649 – Li Jing, Chinese general (b. 571)
862 – Swithun, Anglo-Saxon bishop of Winchester (b. 789)
1298 – Adolf, King of Germany (b. 1220)
1504 – Stephen III of Moldavia (b. 1434)
1566 – Nostradamus, French astrologer (b. 1503)
1591 – Vincenzo Galilei, Italian lute player and composer (b. 1520)
1621 – Thomas Harriot, English astronomer and mathematician (b. 1560)
1743 – Spencer Compton, 1st Earl of Wilmington, Prime Minister of Great Britain (b. 1673)
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)
1857 – Carlo Pisacane, Italian patriot and philosopher (b. 1818)

1901 – 2000

1903 – Ed Delahanty, American baseball player (b. 1867)
1914 – Joseph Chamberlain, English businessman and politician (b. 1836)
1915 – Porfirio Díaz, President of Mexico (b. 1830)
1916 – Louis Maxson, American archer (b. 1855)
1929 – Gladys Brockwell, American actress (b. 1893)
1931 – Peter Kürten, German serial killer (b. 1883)
1932 – King Manuel II of Portugal (b. 1889)
1934 – Ernst Roehm, Nazi politician (b. 1887)
1934 – Henry Hollis Horton, American politician, 40th Governor of Tennessee (b. 1866)
1937 – Amelia Earhart, American pilot (b. 1897)
1937 – Fred Noonan, American aviator (b. 1893)
1946 – Mary Alden, American actress (b. 1883)
1949 – Georgi Dimitrov, Bulgarian politician (b. 1882)
1950 – Thomas William Burgess, English swimmer (b. 1872)
1961 – Ernest Hemingway, American writer (b. 1899)
1966 – Jan Brzechwa, Polish poet and author (b. 1900)
1969 – Michael DiBiase, Italian-American professional wrestler (b. 1923)
1972 – Joseph Fielding Smith, American Mormon Church leader (b. 1876)
1973 – Betty Grable, American actress (b. 1916)
1977 – Vladimir Nabokov, Russian writer (b. 1899)
1986 – Peanuts Lowrey, American baseball player and manager (b. 1917)
1989 – Andrei Gromyko, Soviet politician (b. 1909)
1991 – Lee Remick, American actress (b. 1935)
1994 – Andrés Escobar, Colombian footballer (b. 1967)
1997 – James Stewart, American actor (b. 1908)
1999 – Mario Puzo, American writer (b. 1920)

From 2001

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)
2013 – Douglas Engelbart, American computer scientist (b. 1925)
2013 – Princess Fawzia Fuad of Egypt (b. 1921)
2013 – Anthony Llywellyn, Welsh-American astronaut (b. 1933)
2014 – Errie Ball, Welsh-American golfer (b. 1910)
2014 – Chad Brown, American poker player and actor (b. 1961)
2014 – Louis Zamperini, American athlete and writer (b. 1917)
2015 – Jacobo Zabludovsky, Mexican journalist (b. 1928)
2015 – Charlie Sanders, American football player (b. 1946)
2015 – James C. Weaver, American football player (b. 1945)
2015 – Slavko Avsenik, Slovenian composer and musician (b. 1929)
2016 – Caroline Aherne, English actress, comedienne and writer (b. 1963)
2016 – Roscoe Brown, American World War II veteran (b. 1922)
2016 – Michael Cimino, American screenwriter and director (b. 1939)
2016 – Roger Dumas, French comedian and actor (b. 1932)
2016 – Patrick Manning, 4th and 6th Prime Minister of Trinidad and Tobago (b. 1946)
2016 – Robert Nye, British poet (b. 1939)
2016 – Michel Rocard, former Prime Minister of France (b. 1930)
2016 – Jack C. Taylor, American businessman (b. 1922)
2016 – Elie Wiesel, Romanian-American activist and writer (b. 1928)
2017 – Smith Hart, American-Canadian professional wrestler (b. 1948)
2017 – Jack Collom, American poet (b. 1931)
2017 – Vladimir Malaniuk, Ukrainian chess player (b. 1957)
2017 – Chris Roberts, German singer (b. 1944)
2017 – Tatiana Zatulovskaya, Soviet-born Israeli chess player (b. 1935)
2017 – Ataullah Behmanesh, Iranian wrestler and sports journalist (b. 1923)
2017 – Minos Kyriakou, Greek businessman (b. 1942)
2017 – Bert Rossi, English gangster (b. 1922)
2018 – Henry Butler, American jazz musician (b. 1949)
2018 – Bill Watrous, American jazz trombonist (b. 1939)

Observances

Canada Day (observed on this date if July 1 is a Sunday)
Bahia Independence Day (Brazil)

July 2

Events

Up to 1900

1901 – 2000

From 2001

Births

Up to 1900

1901 – 1950

1951 – 1975

From 1976

Deaths

Up to 1900

1901 – 2000

From 2001

Observances