July 2

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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.

Contents

1 Events

1.1 1500-1899
1.2 1900-1999
1.3 2000-2099

2 Births

2.1 400-1899
2.2 1900-1999

3 Deaths

3.1 800-1899
3.2 1900-1999
3.3 2000-2099

4 Holidays and observances

5 External links

Events

1500-1899

1578 - Martin Frobisher sights Baffin Island.
1613 - First English expedition from Massachusetts against Acadia - led by Samuel Argall.
1644 - Battle of Marston Moor in the English Civil War.
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 state to abolish slavery.
1808 - Simon Fraser reaches Pacific near New Westminster.
1819 - The Factory Act is passed in Britain, creating restrictions on child labor.
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 - Second day of the Battle of Gettysburg.
1865 - The Salvation Army is founded in London, England.
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.

1900-1999

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.