What are the important events that happened on July 2? Here are historical events, facts, and some myths about this day.
July 2: Facts & Myths About This Day
July 2 is the 184th day of the year 2024 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 182 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Tuesday.
Under the Julian calendar, this day is June 19, 2024 – a Tuesday. Both day of the week are the same but did you notice the difference with the Gregorian calendar?
When this day started, 28,664,640 minutes has elapsed since midnight of January 1, 1970 – the Unix epoch.
Strange as it may, if we name this day after a polygon then it will be called ‘hectaoctacontatetragon’ day.
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Cancer is the zodiac sign of a person born on this day. Ruby is the modern birthstone for this month. Ruby is the mystical birthstone from Tibetan origin that dates back over a thousand years.
According to the lunisolar Chinese calendar, there are 211 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.
The ancient Maya civilization believes that the end of the world will happen on December 21, 2012. There are now 4,211 days since this fabled cataclysmic event.
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July 2: This Day In History
This day is the midpoint of a common year because there are 182 days before and 182 days after (median of the year) in common years, and 183 before and 182 after in leap years. The exact time in the middle of the year is at noon, or 12:00 p.m. In the UK and other countries that use “Summer Time” the actual exact time of the mid point in a common year is at 1:00 p.m. this is when 182 days and 12 hours have elapsed and there are 182 days and 12 hours remaining. This is due to Summer Time having advanced the time by one hour. It falls on the same day of the week as New Year’s Day in common years.
July 2 Historical Events
- 437 –Emperor Valentinian III, begins his reign over the Western Roman Empire. His mother Galla Placidia ends her regency, but continues to exercise political influence at the court in Rome.
- 1298 –The Battle of Göllheim is fought between Albert I of Habsburg and Adolf of Nassau-Weilburg.
- 1561 –Menas, Emperor of Ethiopia, defeats a revolt in Emfraz.
- 1613 –The first English expedition from Massachusetts against Acadia led by Samuel Argall takes place.
- 1679 –Europeans first visit Minnesota and see headwaters of Mississippi in an expedition led by Daniel Greysolon de Du Luth.
- 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.
- 1881 –Charles J. Guiteau shoots and fatally wounds U.S. President James Garfield, who eventually dies from an infection on September 19.
- 1964 –U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson signs the Civil Rights Act of 1964 meant to prohibit segregation in public places.
- 1993 –37 participants in an Alevi cultural and literary festival are killed when a mob of demonstrators set fire to their hotel in Sivas during a violent protest.
- 2001 –The AbioCor self contained artificial heart is first implanted.
Who were born on July 2?
- 1492 –Elizabeth Tudor, English princess (d. 1495)
- 1876 –Wilhelm Cuno, Chancellor of Germany (d. 1933)
- 1934 –Tom Springfield, British singer and songwriter (The Springfields)
- 1939 –Alexandros Panagoulis, Greek politician and poet
- 1948 –Saul Rubinek, Canadian actor
- 1955 –Andrew Divoff, Venezuelan actor
- 1958 –Dang Thai Son, Vietnamese classical pianist
- 1976 –Tomáš Vokoun, Czech ice hockey player
- 1979 –Diana Gurtskaya, Georgian singer
- 1986 –Brett Cecil, American baseball player
Who died on July 2?
- 1582 –Akechi Mitsuhide, Japanese samurai (b. 1528)
- 1591 –Vincenzo Galilei, Italian composer (b. 1520)
- 1621 –Thomas Harriot, English astronomer
- 1973 –Ferdinand Schörner, German field marshal (b. 1892)
- 1977 –Vladimir Nabokov, Russian-born writer (b. 1899)
- 1984 –Paul Dozois, Quebec politician (b. 1908)
- 1990 –Snooky Lanson, American singer (b. 1914)
- 1993 –Fred Gwynne, American actor (b. 1926)
- 1994 –Andrés Escobar, Colombian footballer (b. 1967)
- 1995 –Krissy Taylor, American model (b. 1978)
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