July 2 is the 183rd day of the year (184th in leap years ) in the Gregorian Calendar , with 182 days remaining.
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 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 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 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 )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 physicist1908 - 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 dancer1932 - Dave Thomas , founder of Wendy's International (d. 2002 )1937 - Richard Petty , NASCAR driver1942 - Vicente Fox , president of Mexico 1946 - Richard Axel , Nobel prize winning scientist1947 - Larry David , co-creator of Seinfeld 1956 - Jerry Hall , actress/model, ex-wife of Mick Jagger 1958 - Thomas Bickerton , United Methodist Bishop 1959 - Mike Hallett , English snooker player1964 - Jose Canseco , baseball player1964 - Andrea Pia Yates , mother who drowned her five children 1970 - Yancy Butler , actress1971 - Evelyn Lau , pop author1974 - Matthew Reilly , Australian author1976 - Tomas Vokoun , NHL hockey player1980 - Gaurav Dhup, Very Famous Personality1981 - Alex Koroknay-Palicz, youth rights activist1983 - Michelle Branch , popular musician1986 - Lindsay Lohan , actress1957 - Bret "Hitman" Hart, Pro Wrestler
Deaths
1500-1899
1900-1999 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 , actress1977 - Vladimir Nabokov , writer1989 - Andrei Gromyko , Soviet foreign minister1991 - Lee Remick , actress1997 - James Stewart , actor1999 - Mario Puzo , author (b. 1920 )
2000-2099
Holidays and observances July 1 - July 3 - June 2 - August 2 -- listing of all days
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WWII Axis Military History Day-by-Day: July (5456 words)
July 2nd , 1941: On the extreme southern front in the East, troops of the German 11th (von Schobert) and the Rumanian 3rd (Dumitrescu) and 4th Rumanian (Ciuparea) Armies begin an offensive from Moldavia toward Vinnitsa and the Black Sea port of Odessa. July 7th, 1943: In the battle of Kursk, the German forces engaged are still unable to achieve a major breakthrough in the face of stiffening Soviet resistance reenforced by the arrival of strong tank and infantry reserves. July 9th, 1943: Beginning of Operation Husky, the Allied invasion of Sicily, with the US 82nd and the British 1st Airborne Divisions making the first landings at night; due to navigational errors, hundreds of US paratroopers are dropped in the sea and are drowned, while many others are widely scattered and miss their assigned targets.
July 2 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (1306 words)
July 2 is the 183rd day of the year (184th in leap years ) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 182 days remaining. 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. July 1 - July 3 - June 2 - August 2 -- listing of all days
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