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 183rd day of the year 2025 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 182 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Wednesday.
Under the Julian calendar, this day is June 19, 2025 – a Wednesday. Both day of the week are the same but did you notice the difference with the Gregorian calendar?
When this day started, 1,751,414,400 seconds 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 ‘hectaoctacontatrigon’ 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 230 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 4,576 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
- 1494 –The Treaty of Tordesillas is ratified by Spain.
- 1555 –The Ottoman Admiral Turgut Reis sacks the Italian city of Paola.
- 1613 –The first English expedition from Massachusetts against Acadia led by Samuel Argall takes place.
- 1644 –English Civil War: Battle of Marston Moor.
- 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.
- 1917 –The East St. Louis Riots end.
- 1964 –U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson signs the Civil Rights Act of 1964 meant to prohibit segregation in public places.
- 1966 –The French military explodes a nuclear test bomb codenamed Aldébaran in Mururoa, their first nuclear test in the Pacific.
- 1986 –Rodrigo Rojas and Carmen Gloria Quintana where burnt alive during a street demonstration against the dictatorship of General Augusto Pinochet in Chile.
- 2001 –The AbioCor self contained artificial heart is first implanted.
Who were born on July 2?
- 419 –Valentinian III, Roman Emperor (d. 455)
- 1667 –Pietro Ottoboni, Italian cardinal (d. 1740)
- 1849 –Maria Theresa of Austria-Este, Czech-born Queen consort of Bavaria (d. 1919)
- 1925 –Medgar Evers, American civil rights activist (d. 1963)
- 1929 –Imelda Marcos, Filipino First Lady, wife of Ferdinand Marcos
- 1964 –Ozzie Canseco, Cuban-born American baseball player
- 1971 –Evelyn Lau, Canadian poet and novelist
- 1974 –Moon So-ri, South Korean actress
- 1976 –Tomáš Vokoun, Czech ice hockey player
- 1981 –Nathan Ellington, English soccer player
Who died on July 2?
- 1591 –Vincenzo Galilei, Italian composer (b. 1520)
- 1778 –Bathsheba Spooner, American murderer (b. 1746)
- 1822 –Denmark Vesey, St. Thomas-born American freed slave who planned a revolt, hanged (b. c. 1767)
- 1850 –Robert Peel, British politician, 28th and 30th Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1788)
- 1934 –Ernst Röhm, German Nazi official (b. 1887)
- 1966 –Jan Brzechwa, Polish poet (b. 1900)
- 1990 –Snooky Lanson, American singer (b. 1914)
- 1997 –James Stewart, American actor (b. 1908)
- 2002 –Ray Brown, American jazz bassist (b. 1926)
- 2005 –Norm Prescott, American animation producer (b. 1927)
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