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This day in history: 2 July

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294 historical events, births and deaths are listed for 2 July.
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2024: A stampede during a religious event in Uttar Pradesh, India, leaves at least 121 people dead and 150 others injured.

Holidays and observances

Christian feast day: Aberoh and Atom (Coptic Church)

Christian feast day: Bernardino Realino

Christian feast day: Blessed Eugénie Joubert

Christian feast day: Feast of the Visitation (Anglicanism; Levoča at Mariánska hora)

Christian feast day: July 2 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)

Christian feast day: Martinian and Processus

Christian feast day: Monegundis

Christian feast day: Oudoceus

Christian feast day: Pishoy (Coptic Church)

Christian feast day: Stephen III of Moldavia (Romanian Orthodox Church)

Flag Day (Curaçao)

Palio di Provenzano (Siena, Italy)

Events

2024A stampede during a religious event in Uttar Pradesh, India, leaves at least 121 people dead and 150 others injured.

2013A magnitude 6.1 earthquake strikes Aceh, Indonesia, killing at least 42 people and injuring 420 others.

2005The Live 8 benefit concerts takes place in the G8 states and in South Africa. More than 1,000 musicians perform and are broadcast on 182 television networks and 2,000 radio networks.

2000Vicente Fox Quesada is elected the first President of México from an opposition party, the Partido Acción Nacional, after more than 70 years of continuous rule by the Partido Revolucionario Institucional, in the 2000 Mexican general electio

1997The Bank of Thailand floats the baht, triggering the Asian financial crisis.

1994USAir Flight 1016 crashes near Charlotte Douglas International Airport, killing 37 of the 57 people on board.

1993A mob sets fire to the Hotel Madımak in Sivas, Turkey, where an Alevi cultural festival was taking place, killing 37 people.

1990In the 1990 Mecca tunnel tragedy, 1,400 Muslim pilgrims are suffocated to death and trampled upon in a pedestrian tunnel leading to the holy city of Mecca.

1986Aeroflot Flight 2306 crashes while attempting an emergency landing at Syktyvkar Airport in Syktyvkar, in present-day Komi Republic, Russia, killing 54 people.

1986Rodrigo Rojas and Carmen Gloria Quintana are burnt alive during a street demonstration against the dictatorship of General Augusto Pinochet in Chile in the Quemados case.

1976End of South Vietnam; Communist North Vietnam annexes the former South Vietnam to form the unified Socialist Republic of Vietnam.

1966France conducts its first nuclear weapon test in the Pacific, on Moruroa Atoll.

1964Civil rights movement: U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson signs the Civil Rights Act of 1964 meant to prohibit segregation in public places.

1937Amelia Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan are last heard from over the Pacific Ocean and disappear while attempting to make the first equatorial round-the-world flight.

1934The Night of the Long Knives ends after three days of killings.

1921World War I: U.S. President Warren G. Harding signs the Knox–Porter Resolution formally ending the war between the United States and Germany.

1917In the leadup to the Battle of Aqaba, T. E. Lawrence and his Arab forces defeat a battalion of Ottomans at Abu al-Lissan.

1890The U.S. Congress passes the Sherman Antitrust Act.

1881Charles J. Guiteau shoots and fatally wounds U.S. President James A. Garfield (who will die of complications from his wounds on September 19).

1863American Civil War: On the second day of the Battle of Gettysburg - the Battle of Little Round Top takes place and results in a Union victory after the Confederate troops unsuccessfully try to assault the Union left flank.

1840A Ms 7.4 earthquake strikes present-day Turkey and Armenia; combined with the effects of an eruption on Mount Ararat, kills 10,000 people.

1823Bahia Independence Day: The Siege of Salvador ends Portuguese rule in Brazil, with the final defeat of the Portuguese crown loyalists in the province of Bahia.

1776American Revolution: The Continental Congress adopts the Lee Resolution severing ties with the Kingdom of Great Britain. The wording of the formal Declaration of Independence was agreed upon and publicly released two days later, on July 4.

1645Wars of the Three Kingdoms: Battle of Alford.

1644English Civil War: Battle of Marston Moor.

1582Battle of Yamazaki: Toyotomi Hideyoshi defeats Akechi Mitsuhide.

1494Age of Discovery: The Treaty of Tordesillas is ratified by Spain.

1298Battle of Göllheim: Albert I of Habsburg defeats Adolf of Nassau-Weilburg.

866Battle of Brissarthe: The Franks led by Robert the Strong are defeated by a joint Breton-Viking army.

626Li Shimin, the future Emperor Taizong of Tang, ambushes and kills his rival brothers Li Yuanji and Li Jiancheng in the Xuanwu Gate Incident.

311Beginning of the papacy of Pope Miltiades.

Born on this day

1996Julia Grabher, Austrian tennis player

1995Ryan Murphy, American swimmer

1994Derrick White, American basketball player

1994Henrik Kristoffersen, Norwegian skier

1993Saweetie, American rapper

1993Vince Staples, American rapper and actor

1992Jānis Timma, Latvian basketball player

1992Madison Chock, American ice dancer

1990Bill Tupou, New Zealand rugby league player

1990Danny Rose, English footballer

1990Kayla Harrison, American judoka

1990Margot Robbie, Australian actress and producer

1990Merritt Mathias, American soccer player

1990Morag McLellan, Scottish field hockey player

1989Alex Morgan, American soccer player

1989Nadezhda Grishaeva, Russian basketball player

1988Lee Chung-yong, South Korean footballer

1987Esteban Granero, Spanish footballer

1986Brett Cecil, American baseball player

1986Lindsay Lohan, American actress and singer

1985Ashley Tisdale, American actress, singer, and producer

1985Chad Henne, American football player

1984Elise Stefanik, American politician

1984Johnny Weir, American figure skater

1984Thomas Kortegaard, Danish footballer

1983Kyle Hogg, English cricketer

1983Michelle Branch, American singer-songwriter and guitarist

1981Carlos Rogers, American football player

1981Nathan Ellington, English footballer

1980Nyjer Morgan, American baseball player

1979Ahmed al-Ghamdi, Saudi Arabian terrorist, hijacker of United Airlines Flight 175 (died 2001)

1979Joe Thornton, Canadian ice hockey player

1979Sam Hornish Jr., American race car driver

1979Walter Davis, American triple jumper

1978Jüri Ratas, Estonian politician, 42nd Mayor of Tallinn

1977Deniz Barış, Turkish footballer

1976Krisztián Lisztes, Hungarian footballer

1976Ľudovít Ódor, Prime minister of Slovakia

1976Tomáš Vokoun, Czech-American ice hockey player

1975Elizabeth Reaser, American actress

Died on this day

2025Julian McMahon, Australian-American actor (born 1968)

2025Sophia Hutchins, American socialite (born 1996)

2020Ángela Jeria, Chilean archaeologist and human rights activist (born 1926)

2020Byron Bernstein, American Twitch streamer (born 1989)

2019Lee Iacocca, American automotive executive (born 1924)

2018Alan Longmuir, Scottish musician (born 1948)

2017Smith Hart, American-born Canadian professional wrestler (born 1948)

2017Vladislav Rastorotsky, a Russian (and former Soviet) artistic gymnastics coach, (born 1933)

2016Caroline Aherne, English actress and comedian (born 1963)

2016Elie Wiesel, Holocaust survivor, activist, and author (born 1928)

2016Michael Cimino, American director, producer, and screenwriter (born 1939)

2016Patrick Manning, 4th & 6th Prime Minister of Trinidad and Tobago (born 1946)

2015Charlie Sanders, American football player and sportscaster (born 1946)

2015Jacobo Zabludovsky, Mexican journalist (born 1928)

2015Jim Weaver, American football player and coach (born 1945)

2015Ronald Davison, New Zealand lawyer and judge, 10th Chief Justice of New Zealand (born 1920)

2014Emilio Álvarez Montalván, Nicaraguan ophthalmologist and politician (born 1919)

2014Harold W. Kuhn, American mathematician and academic (born 1925)

2014Louis Zamperini, American runner and World War II US Army Air Forces captain (born 1917)

2014Manuel Cardona, Spanish physicist and academic (born 1934)

2014Mary Innes-Ker, Duchess of Roxburghe (born 1915)

2013Anthony G. Bosco, American bishop (born 1927)

2013Anthony Llewellyn, Welsh-American chemist, academic, and astronaut (born 1933)

2013Armand Gaudreault, Canadian ice hockey player (born 1921)

2013Douglas Engelbart, American computer scientist, invented the computer mouse (born 1925)

2012Angelo Mangiarotti, Italian architect and academic (born 1921)

2012Betty Meggers, American archaeologist and academic (born 1921)

2012Ed Stroud, American baseball player (born 1939)

2012Julian Goodman, American journalist (born 1922)

2012Maurice Chevit, French actor and screenwriter (born 1923)

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“First say to yourself what you would be; and then do what you have to do.”

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