Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/July 2
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| Blurb | Reason |
|---|---|
| 963 – The Eastern forces of the Byzantine army proclaimed Nicephorus Phocas to be Byzantine Emperor on the plains outside Cappadocian Caesarea. | needs more footnotes |
| 1298 – Albert I's army defeated the forces of the deposed Adolf of Nassau at the Battle of Göllheim following Albert's election to replace Adolf as King of Germany. | Undercited |
| 1839 – Over fifty African slaves mutinied on the slave ship La Amistad off the coast of Cuba. | lots of CN tags (8) |
| 1890 – The U.S. Congress passed the Sherman Antitrust Act, the first United States government action to limit monopolies. | refimprove sections, OR |
| 1917 – Amidst weeks of race riots in East St. Louis, Illinois, white residents burned sections of the city and shot black inhabitants as they escaped the flames. | refimprove sections |
| 1900 – The first Zeppelin flight occurred over Lake Constance near Friedrichshafen, Germany. | refimprove sections |
| 1900 – Finlandia, a tone poem by Jean Sibelius which forms the basis of one of the national songs of Finland, was first performed in Helsinki. | recentism |
| 1937 – Aviation pioneer Amelia Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan disappeared over the Pacific Ocean during an attempt to make a circumnavigational flight. | refimprove section |
| 1950 – A mentally ill Buddhist monk set fire to the Golden Pavilion at Kinkaku-ji, destroying what is now one of the most popular tourist destinations in Japan. | missing page numbers |
| 1962 – The first Walmart store, now the largest company in the world by revenue, opened in Rogers, Arkansas, U.S. | recentism |
| 1997 – The Thai baht rapidly lost half of its value, marking the beginning of the Asian financial crisis. | unreferenced sections |
| 2000 – In the Mexican general election, Vicente Fox was elected to be the first president of Mexico from an opposition party in 71 years. | Election: refimprove section; Fox: oudated |
| Robert Peel |d|1850 | unreferenced section |
| Stephen III of Moldavia |d|1504| | 68 "better source needed" tags |
| Charles Tupper |b|1821| | Too much uncited |
| Theodoor Rombouts |b|1597| | Date not cited |
| Harriet Brooks |b|1876| | Tagged with a number of citations, clarifications etc. |
| Thomas Harriot |d|1621| | 6 citation needed tags plus more uncited |
| : Feast day of Saints Martinian and Processus (Catholicism) | Could not verify date from source cited |
Eligible
- 626 – Li Shimin led his forces to assassinate his rival brothers in a coup for the imperial throne of Tang China.
- 706 – The bodies of Emperor Gaozong of Tang and Empress Wu Zetian were interred in the Qianling Mausoleum.
- 1644 – First English Civil War: The combined forces of Scottish Covenanters and English Parliamentarians defeated Royalist troops at the Battle of Marston Moor.
- 1724 – On the Feast of the Visitation, Bach led the first performance of his Meine Seel erhebt den Herren, BWV 10, based on the German Magnificat.
- 1816 – The French frigate Méduse ran aground off the coast of present-day Mauritania, with the survivors escaping on a makeshift raft, depicted in Théodore Géricault's painting The Raft of the Medusa (pictured).
- 1881 – U.S. president James A. Garfield (pictured) was fatally shot by Charles J. Guiteau at the Baltimore and Potomac Railroad station in Washington, D.C.
- 1941 – A German SS unit arrived in Vilnius, Lithuania, and began the systematic execution of up to 100,000 people over the next three years.
- 1964 – The Civil Rights Act was signed into law, outlawing segregation in schools, at the workplace, and other facilities that served the general public in the United States.
- 1976 – More than a year after the end of the Vietnam War, North and South Vietnam officially merged under communist rule to form the Socialist Republic of Vietnam.
- 2008 – Israeli–Palestinian conflict: An Arab man rammed a loader into traffic in Jerusalem, killing three people and injuring 40 others (damage pictured).
- 2013 – The International Astronomical Union announced that the fourth and fifth moons of Pluto to be discovered would be named Kerberos and Styx, respectively.
- Born/died this day: | Denmark Vesey|d|1822| Robert Ridgway|b|1850| Wilhelm Cuno|b|1876| Hans Bethe |b|1906| Erich Topp |b|1914| Leonard J. Arrington|b|1917| Fumiko Hori|b|1918| Wisława Szymborska|b|1923| Carlos Menem|b|1930| Humbert Roque Versace|b|1937| Maria Lourdes Sereno|b|1960| Alicia Patterson |d|1963| Joseph Fielding Smith|d|1972| Sam Hornish Jr. |b|1979| Douglas Engelbart|d|2013
A demonstration against the Soviet blockade of Lithuania
- 1779 – American Revolutionary War: French troops landed near St. George's, Grenada, and began their capture of the island.
- 1990 – Singing Revolution: The Soviet economic blockade of Lithuania (pictured) was lifted when the Lithuanian parliament agreed to suspend the effects of their act to re-establish Lithuania as a state.
- 1998 – Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets by J. K. Rowling, the second novel of the Harry Potter series, was published.
- 2013 – In the Indonesian province of Aceh on the northern end of Sumatra, a Mw 6.1 strike-slip earthquake killed at least 35 people and injured 276 others.
- 2020 – A landslide at a jade mine in Hpakant killed 175–200 miners, the deadliest mining accident in Burmese history.
- Walter Potter (b. 1835)
- Ernest Hemingway (d. 1961)
- Alex Morgan (b. 1989)
- Julian McMahon (d. 2025)