Notable Historical Events on July 2nd
July 2nd Historical Events
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
311 |
St Militiades begins his reign as Catholic Pope |
626 |
In fear of assassination, Li Shimin ambushes and kills his rival brothers Li Yuanji and Li Jiancheng in the Incident at Xuanwu Gate. On September 4, Shimin's father abdicates in his favour and Shimin becomes Emperor Taizong of Tang, Emperor of China. |
706 |
In China, Emperor Zhongzong of Tang has the remains of Emperor Gaozong of Tang, his wife and recently-deceased ruling empress Wu Zetian, her son Li Xian, her grandson Li Chongrun, and granddaughter Li Xianhui all interred in a new tomb complex outside Chang'an known as the Qianling Mausoleum, located on Mount Liang. |
963 |
The imperial army proclaims Nicephorus Phocas to be Emperor of the Romans on the plains outside Cappadocian Caesarea. |
1140 |
Hartbert becomes bishop of Utrecht |
1214 |
Battle of La Roche-aux-Moines (Angers), part of King John of England attempt to reclaim Normandy from France |
1298 |
Battle on Hasenbuhl (Gollheim) between German kings Adolf & Albrecht I |
1555 |
Turgut Reis sacks the Italian city of Paola. |
1561 |
Menas, Emperor of Ethiopia, defeats a revolt in Emfraz. |
1576 |
Muitende Spanish soldiers conquer Zierik Sea |
1578 |
Martin Frobisher sights Baffin Island. |
1582 |
Battle of Yamazaki: Toyotomi Hideyoshi defeats Akechi Mitsuhide. |
1600 |
Battle at Newport: Earl Mauritius van Nassau beats Spanish Army |
1613 |
The first English expedition from Massachusetts against Acadia led by Samuel Argall. |
1644 |
Battle of Marston Moor, North Yorkshire: Parliamentary forces under Lords Fairfax and Manchester defeat royalists led by Prince Rupert |
1679 |
Europeans first visit Minnesota and see headwaters of Mississippi in an expedition led by Daniel Greysolon de Du Luth. |
1681 |
Earl of Shaftesbury arrested for high treason |
1687 |
King James II disbands English parliament |
1698 |
Thomas Savery patents the first steam engine |
1776 |
NJ Jersey gives the right to vote to all adults who could show a net worth of 50 pounds |
1776 |
Continental Congress resolves "these United Colonies are & of right ought to be Free & Independent States" |
1776 |
At the Continental Congress, John Dickinson abstains from the votes that declare independence |
1787 |
Marquis de Sade shouts from Bastille that prisoners are being slaughtered |
1794 |
2nd Battle of Seneffe: France-Austria |
1808 |
Simon Fraser completes his trip down Fraser R, BC, lands at Musqueam |
1823 |
Bahia Independence Day: the end of Portuguese rule in Brazil, with the final defeat of the Portuguese crown loyalists in the province of Bahia. |
1839 |
Slaves aboard a Spanish schooner La Amistad revolt to secure their freedom while being transported from one Cuban port to another |
1843 |
An alligator falls from sky during a thunderstorm in Charleston, South Carolina |
1847 |
Envelope bearing 1st US 10 cent stamps used (still exists today) |
1849 |
Garibaldi begins hunger strike in Rome |
1850 |
Benjamin Lane patents gas mask with a breathing apparatus |
1858 |
Partial emancipation of Russian serfs |
1861 |
Battle of Hoke's Run, WV - small Union victory |
1862 |
Lincoln signs act granting land for state agricultural colleges |
1863 |
Battle of Gettysburg (2nd day) |
1863 |
R Morgan's: Burksville, KY to Salineville, OH [->JUL 26] |
1864 |
Gen Early & Confederate forces reach Winchester en route to Washington, DC |
1864 |
Statuary Hall in US Capitol forms |
1865 |
One-time Methodist Reform Church minister William Booth and his wife Catherine found the Salvation Army (Army of the Salvation) as the East London Christian Mission |
1867 |
1st US elevated railroad begins service, NYC |
1870 |
Jules Joseph d'Anethan is elected the tenth Prime Minister of Belgium. |
1881 |
US President James Garfield shot by Charles J Guiteau a disappointed office-seeker; Garfield died 79 days later |
1885 |
Canada's North-west Insurrection ends with surrender of Big Bear |
1890 |
Congress passes Sherman Antitrust Act |
1894 |
Government obtains injunction against striking Pullman Workers |
1900 |
Sibelius' "Finlandia" premieres in Helsinki |
1900 |
First flight LZ-1, of a dirigible airship designed by Graf Ferdinand von Zeppelin, at Lake Constance near Friedrichshafen, Germany. |
1901 |
Butch Cassidy & Sundance Kid rob train of $40,000 at Wagner, Montana |
1902 |
John J McGraw becomes manager of NY Giants (stays for 30 years) |
1902 |
19th Wimbledon Womens Tennis: Muriel Robb beats C Sterry (7-5 6-1) |
1902 |
26th Wimbledon Mens Tennis: Laurence Doherty beats A Gore (6-4 6-3 3-6 6-0) |
1903 |
AL/NL batting champ Ed Delahanty, disappears, found dead days later |
1903 |
Pitcher Jack Doscher, 1 son of a major leaguer debuts with Cubs |
1906 |
Yanks win by forfeit for the 1st time |
1915 |
Erich Muenter, an instructor in German at Cornell University, explodes a bomb in the US Senate reception room |
1916 |
Lenin says Imperialism is caused by capitalism |
1916 |
Russian offensive in Armenia |
1917 |
Riots in East St Louis Mo |
1921 |
41st Wimbledon Mens Tennis: B Tilden beats B Norton (4-6 2-6 6-1 6-0 7-5) |
1921 |
Jack Dempsey KOs George S Carpentier in 4 for heavyweight boxing title 1st million dollar gate ($1.7m) boxing match (Dempsey KOs Carpentier) |
1921 |
Warren G. Harding signs a joint congressional resolution declaring the official end of war with Germany |
1926 |
US Army Air Corps created; Distinguish Flying Cross authorized |
1927 |
40th Wimbledon Womens Tennis: Helen Moody beats L de Alvarez (6-2 6-4) |
1927 |
Earthquake hits Palestine |
1928 |
British parliament reduces the age at women can vote to 21 - the same as men (Representation of the People Act 1928) |
1928 |
The Jenkins Television Corporation (owned by Charles Jenkins) goes on air with W3XK, the first television broadcasting station in the USA |
1932 |
52nd Wimbledon Mens Tennis: Ellsworth Vines beats H Austin (6-4 6-2 6-0) |
1932 |
FDR makes 1st presidential nominating conventional acceptance speech |
1933 |
Carl Hubbell shuts-out Cards 1-0 in 18 innings without a walk |
1934 |
General Lazaro Cardenas elected president of Mexico |
1935 |
Great Britain boxing team beat US team in 1st international Golden Gloves |
1937 |
57th Wimbledon Mens Tennis: Don Budge beats G von Cramm (6-3 6-4 6-2) |
1937 |
Amelia Earhart & Fred Noonan disappear over Pacific Ocean |
1937 |
50th Wimbledon Womens Tennis: Dorothy Little beats J Jędrzejowska (6-2 2-6 7-5) |
1938 |
51st Wimbledon Womens Tennis: Helen Moody beats Helen Jacobs (6-4 6-0) |
1940 |
Dutch PM Colijn publishes "Borders of 2 Worlds" (German victory) |
1940 |
Hitler orders invasion of Britain (Operation Sealion) |
1940 |
Lake Washington (Seattle) Floating bridge dedicated |
1940 |
British PM Churchill meets Major General Bernard Montgomery |
1940 |
Indian independence leader Subhas Chandra Bose is arrested and detained in Calcutta. |
1941 |
DiMaggio breaks Willie Keeler's 44 game hitting streak (45th of 56) |
1941 |
Earthquake hits Palestine |
1941 |
Nazi mass murder in Lvov/Lemberg (7,000 dead) |
1941 |
Noel Coward's "Blithe Spirit" premieres in London |
1943 |
Gulf of Biskaje: Liberator bombers sinks U-126 |
1943 |
Indians score 12 runs in 4th inning & beat Yankees 12-0 |
1943 |
Lt Charles Hall becomes 1st black pilot to shoot down a Nazi plane |
1944 |
Field Marshal von Kluge replaces General von Rundstedt |
1946 |
Dutch Beel government forms |
1946 |
Harbor workers end strike at Rotterdam & Amsterdam |
1947 |
Military coup discovered in France |
1948 |
62nd Wimbledon Mens Tennis: Falkenburg beats Bromwich (7-5 0-6 6-2 3-6 7-5) |
1948 |
77th British Golf Open: Henry Cotton shoots a 284 at Muirfield |
1949 |
"High Button Shoes" closes at Century Theater NYC after 727 perfs |
1949 |
"Red Barber's Clubhouse" sports show premieres on CBS (later NBC) TV |
1949 |
56th Wimbledon Womens Tennis: L Brough beats M duPont (10-8 1-6 10-8) |
1950 |
Indian Bob Feller, wins his 200th game, 5-3 over Detroit |
1950 |
Kinkaku-ji in Kyoto, Japan, burns down. |
1950 |
Henri Queuille is elected the seventh Prime Minister of the Fourth French Republic. |
1951 |
Bill Veeck buys St Louis Browns from Bill & Charlie DeWitt |
1951 |
"Bob & Ray show" premieres on NBC radio |
1951 |
Hugo Yarnold stumps 6 at Dundee, Worcester v Scotland |
1951 |
Island advisor of Curacao installed |
1951 |
Leidse astronomers discover radio signal out of Milky Way system |
1952 |
Princess Beatrice opens miniature city of Madurodam |
1954 |
68th Wimbledon Mens Tennis: J Drobny beats K Rosewall (13-11 4-6 6-2 9-7) |
1954 |
Denis Compton scores 278 in 290 minutes v Pakistan |
1955 |
"7th Heaven" closes at ANTA Theater NYC after 44 performances |
1955 |
"Almost Crazy" closes at Longacre Theater NYC after 16 performances |
1955 |
"Lawrence Welk Show" premieres on ABC |
1955 |
10th US Women's Open Golf Championship won by Fay Crocker |
1955 |
62nd Wimbledon Womens Tennis: Louise Brough beats B Fleitz (7-5 8-6) |
1956 |
Elvis Presley records "Hound Dog" & "Don't Be Cruel" |
1956 |
US performs nuclear test at Enwetak (atmospheric tests) |
1957 |
1st submarine designed to fire guided missiles launched, Grayback |
1957 |
Pope Pius XII publishes encyclical Le pelerinage De Lourdes |
1958 |
US performs atmospheric nuclear test at Bikini Island |
1959 |
"Plan 9 From Outer Space", one of the worse films ever, premieres |
1960 |
"Once Upon a Mattress" closes at Alvin Theater NYC after 460 perfs |
1961 |
Maris hits 29th & 30th en route to 61 homers |
1962 |
Cubans minister of Foreign affairs RaulCastro arrives in Moscow |
1962 |
Fidel Castro visits Moscow |
1963 |
Giant Willie Mays' HR in 16th inning gives them a 1-0 win over Braves |
1963 |
Juan Marichal (Giants) beats Warren Spahn (Braves), 1-0 in 16 innings |
1964 |
Cilla Black records Beatle's "Its For You", Paul McCartney plays piano |
1964 |
Grand jury indicts Beckwith in murder of Medger Evers |
1964 |
US President Johnson signs Civil Rights Act & Voting Rights Act into law |
1965 |
79th Wimbledon Mens Tennis: Roy Emerson beats Fred Stolle (62 64 64) |
1966 |
1st France nuclear test on Mururoa atoll |
1966 |
73rd Wimbledon Women's Tennis Singles: Billie J King (Miss Moffat) beats Maria Bueno (63 36 61) |
1967 |
22nd US Women's Open Golf Championship won by Catherine Lacoste |
1967 |
Catherine Lacoste becomes youngest (22), 1st foreigner (France) & 1st amateur to US Women's open golf tournament |
1968 |
An El Al Israeli airliner is hijacked and diverted to Algeria by three armed members of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) |
1969 |
Ireland bowl out West Indies for 25 at Londonderry, win by 9 wkts |
1969 |
Leslie West & Felix Pappalardi form rock group Mountain |
1970 |
1st Boeing 747 to land in Amsterdam & Brussels |
1970 |
NY Yankees Horace Clarke breaks up a no-hitter in the 9th for 3rd time in 28 days |
1970 |
The Prevention of Incitement to Hatred Act (Northern Ireland) is introduced; it proved difficult to secure convictions under its provisions and was seldom enforced |
1970 |
Neil Blaney is found not guilty of illegal arms importation to the Irish Republican Army by a Dublin jury |
1971 |
78th Wimbledon Womens Tennis: Evonne Goolagong beats Margaret Smith (64 61) |
1971 |
USSR performs underground nuclear test |
1972 |
"Fiddler on the Roof" closes at Imperial Theater NYC after 3242 perfs |
1972 |
27th US Women's Open Golf Championship won by Susie Maxwell Berning |
1972 |
Bob Seagren pole vaults world record 5.63m |
1972 |
India & Pakistan sign peace accord |
1972 |
Two Catholic civilians are shot and killed in Belfast by Loyalist paramilitaries, probably the Ulster Defence Association (UDA) |
1973 |
James R Schlesinger ends term as 9th director of CIA |
1973 |
Nation Black Network begins operation on radio |
1974 |
Fernando Mameda of Portugal sets record for 10,000 m (27:13.81) |
1976 |
83rd Wimbledon Womens Tennis: Chris Evert beats E Goolagong (63 46 86) |
1976 |
Formal reunification of North & South Vietnam |
1976 |
Supreme Court rules death penalty not inherently cruel or unusual |
1976 |
Ramble Inn attack: the Ulster Volunteer Force killed 6 civilians (5 Protestants, 1 Catholic) in a gun attack at a pub near Antrim; the pub was targeted because it was owned by Catholics |
1977 |
91st Wimbledon Mens Tennis: Bjorn Borg beats Connors (36 62 61 57 64) |
1978 |
Pitcher Ron Guidry sets Yankee record of 13-0 start |
1979 |
Susan B. Anthony dollar is issued, 1st US coin to honor a woman |
1980 |
Grateful Dead's Bob Weir & Mickey Hart are arrested for incitement |
1980 |
Julie Marie Bryan, 18, of Georgia, crowned America's Young Woman of Yr |
1982 |
Larry Walters using lawn chair & 42 helium balloons, rose to 16,000' |
1982 |
Soyuz T-6 returns to Earth |
1982 |
In South Africa, the Internal Security Act is passed, giving massive powers to the authorities to investigate any organization or publication |
1983 |
90th Wimbledon Womens Tennis: M Navratilova beats A Jaeger (60 63) |
1985 |
Andrei Gromyko appointed president of USSR |
1985 |
European Space Agency launches Giotto (Halley's Comet Flyby) |
1986 |
After 14 wins, Roger Clemens suffer his 1st loss of year |
1986 |
General strike against Pinochet regime in Chile |
1986 |
US Supreme Court upholds affirmative action in 2 rulings |
1987 |
Jim Eisenreich's comeback after nervous disorder in 1984 |
1987 |
Nilde Iotti is named as the first female President of the Italian Chamber of Deputies. |
1988 |
95th Wimbledon Womens Tennis Open: Steffi Graf beats Navratilova (5-7 6-2 6-1) |
1988 |
Lester Dumakude, commander of an Umkhonto we Sizwe special operations unit, detonate a car bomb by remote control outside Ellis Park Stadium in Johannesburg, South Africa |
1989 |
10th US Seniors Golf Open: Orville Moody |
1989 |
17th du Maurier Golf Classic: Tammie Green |
1990 |
Imelda Marcos & Adnan Khashoggi found not guilty of racketeering |
1990 |
Panic in tunnel of Mecca: 1,426 pilgrims trampled to death |
1991 |
Riot at Guns N' Roses concert in St Louis |
1991 |
Donald Trump proposes to Marla Maples and gives her a 7.5 carat diamond ring |
1992 |
Braniff Airlines goes out of business |
1993 |
Boat sinks at Bocaue Philippines, 325 die |
1993 |
F-28 crashes at Sorong Irian Barat, 41 die |
1993 |
Kansas Royals rename stadium Ewing Kaufman Stadium after founder |
1993 |
Moslem fundamentalists in Sivas, Turkey, set hotel on fire, kill 36 |
1993 |
NY Met Anthony Young loses a record 25th straight game (goes to 27) |
1993 |
Pope John Paul II hospitalized for Cat Scan test |
1994 |
101st Wimbledon Womens Tennis: C Martinez beats Navratilova (64 36 63) |
1994 |
John Wayne Bobbitt & Kristina Elliot arrested for domestic battery |
1994 |
Richard Johnson takes 10-45 for Middlesex against Derbyshire |
1994 |
US Air DC-9 crash in North Carolina, 37 killed |
1995 |
"Rose Tattoo" closes at Circle in the Square NYC after 80 perfs |
1995 |
16th US Seniors Golf Open: Tom Weiskopf |
1995 |
Michelle McGann wins Youngstown-Warren LPGA Golf Classic |
1995 |
Thailand: Banharn Silpa-Archa's party wins election |
2000 |
Vicente 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. |
2001 |
AbioCor self contained artificial heart created. |
2001 |
Bush Administration announce that it will seek to let oil companies drill on about 1,500,000 acres of the Gulf of Mexico |
2001 |
UN Security Council, facing an almost certain Russian veto, agrees to postpone indefinitely a vote on the US-led "smart sanctions" package for Iraq |
2002 |
Steve Fossett becomes the first person to fly solo around the world nonstop in a balloon. |
2003 |
Silvio Berlusconi, Prime Minister of Italy, insults German MP Martin Schulz by calling him a "kapo" during a session of the European Parliament. |
2004 |
ASEAN Regional Forum accepts Pakistan as its 24th member. |
2005 |
South African tennis player Wesley Moodie and Australian Stephen Huss win the Wimbledon Men's double title |
2008 |
Ingrid Betancourt and 14 other FARC hostages are rescued by the Colombian armed forces. |
2010 |
Oil tanker truck explosion in South Kivu, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, kills at least 230 people |
2010 |
Ghana's Black Stars, the only African team standing in the Quarter Finals of the FIFA 2010 World Cup in South Africa, are defeated by Uruguay |
2012 |
GlaxoSmithKline settles the largest healthcare fraud case in history for US$3 Billion |
2012 |
Monsoon rain in East India kills at least 79 people and leaves 2.2 million homeless |
2013 |
16 people are killed and 200 are injured in protest clashes at Cairo University against Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi |
2014 |
Former French President Nicolas Sarkozy is criminally charged with corruption by French prosecutors |
2016 |
Wales Stuns Belgium 3-1 at European Championship |
2016 |
Bangladesh PM says 13 hostages rescued from Dhaka cafe, some killed |
2016 |
Gunmen take hostages at cafe in Dhaka's diplomatic quarter |
2016 |
Gunmen take at least 20 foreign hostages in Bangladesh |
2017 |
Jeff Horn stuns Manny Pacquiao to win WBO welterweight world title |
2018 |
LeBron agrees to 4-year, $154 million contract with Lakers |
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