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| July 2nd, 2008 (July 02 2008) | Event | Ingrid Betancourt and 14 other FARC hostages are rescued by the Colombian armed forces. | |
| July 2nd, 2008 (July 02 2008) | Death | Natasha Shneider, Russian-born musician (born in 1956) | |
| July 2nd, 2008 (July 02 2008) | Death | Elizabeth Spriggs, English-Born Actress (born in 1929) | |
| July 2nd, 2007 (July 02 2007) | Death | Beverly Sills, American operatic soprano (born in 1929) | |
| July 2nd, 2006 (July 02 2006) | Death | Jan Murray, American comedian (born in 1916) | |
| July 2nd, 2005 (July 02 2005) | Death | Ernest Lehman, American screenwriter (born in 1915) | |
| July 2nd, 2004 (July 02 2004) | Event | ASEAN Regional Forum accepts Pakistan as its 24th member.? | |
| July 2nd, 2004 (July 02 2004) | Death | Sophia de Mello Breyner Andresen, Portuguese writer (born in 1919) | |
| July 2nd, 2004 (July 02 2004) | Death | John Cullen Murphy, American comic strip artist (born in 1919) | |
| July 2nd, 2003 (July 02 2003) | Event | Silvio Berlusconi, Prime Minister of Italy, insults German MP Martin Schulz by calling him a "kapo" during a session of the European Parliament. | |
| July 2nd, 2002 (July 02 2002) | Event | Steve Fossett becomes the first person to fly solo around the world nonstop in a balloon. | |
| July 2nd, 2002 (July 02 2002) | Death | Ray Brown, American jazz bassist (born in 1926) | |
| July 2nd, 2001 (July 02 2001) | Event | AbioCor self contained artificial heart created. | |
| July 2nd, 2000 (July 02 2000) | Event | Vicente Fox Quesada is elected the first President of Mexico from an opposition party, the Partido Accion Nacional after more than 70 years of continuous rule by the Partido Revolucionario Institucional. | |
| July 2nd, 2000 (July 02 2000) | Death | Joey Dunlop, Irish motorcycle racer (born in 1952) | |
| July 2nd, 1999 (July 02 1999) | Death | Mario Puzo, American author (born in 1920) | |
| July 2nd, 1997 (July 02 1997) | Death | Jimmy Stewart, American actor (born in 1908) | |
| July 2nd, 1995 (July 02 1995) | Death | Krissy Taylor, American model (born in 1978) | |
| July 2nd, 1994 (July 02 1994) | Death | Andres Escobar, Colombian footballer (born in 1967) | |
| July 2nd, 1993 (July 02 1993) | Death | Fred Gwynne, American actor (born in 1926) | |
| July 2nd, 1993 (July 02 1993) | Death | Sir Edward Dunlop, Australian war hero (born in 1907) | |
| July 2nd, 1992 (July 02 1992) | Event | Vaclav Klaus is elected Prime Minister of Czechoslovakia. | |
| July 2nd, 1992 (July 02 1992) | Death | Camaron de la Isla, Spanish flamenco singer (born in 1950) | |
| July 2nd, 1991 (July 02 1991) | Death | Lee Remick, American actress (born in 1935) | |
| July 2nd, 1990 (July 02 1990) | Event | A stampede inside a pedestrian tunnel leads to the deaths of 1,426 pilgrims in Mecca during hajj. | |
| July 2nd, 1989 (July 02 1989) | Birth | Emon Chatterjee, Indian singer | |
| July 2nd, 1989 (July 02 1989) | Death | Franklin Schaffner, American film director (born in 1920) | |
| July 2nd, 1989 (July 02 1989) | Death | Andrei Gromyko, Soviet politician (born in 1909) | Andrei Gromyko Quotes |
| July 2nd, 1987 (July 02 1987) | Event | Nilde Iotti is named as the first female President of the Italian Chamber of Deputies. | |
| July 2nd, 1987 (July 02 1987) | Birth | Ruslana Korshunova, Kazakhstani model (died in 2008) | |
| July 2nd, 1986 (July 02 1986) | Birth | Lindsay Lohan, American actress and singer | |
| July 2nd, 1986 (July 02 1986) | Death | Peanuts Lowrey, baseball player (born in 1917) | |
| July 2nd, 1985 (July 02 1985) | Event | Andrei Gromyko is appointed the chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union. | Andrei Gromyko Quotes |
| July 2nd, 1985 (July 02 1985) | Birth | Rhett Bomar, American football player | |
| July 2nd, 1985 (July 02 1985) | Birth | Chad Henne, American football player | |
| July 2nd, 1985 (July 02 1985) | Birth | Ashley Tisdale, American actress and singer | |
| July 2nd, 1985 (July 02 1985) | Death | David Purley, British Formula 1 driver (born in 1945) | |
| July 2nd, 1984 (July 02 1984) | Birth | Vanessa Lee Chester, American actress | |
| July 2nd, 1984 (July 02 1984) | Birth | Thomas Kortegaard, Danish footballer | |
| July 2nd, 1984 (July 02 1984) | Birth | Johnny Weir, American figure skater | |
| July 2nd, 1984 (July 02 1984) | Death | Paul Dozois, Quebec politician (born in 1908) | |
| July 2nd, 1983 (July 02 1983) | Birth | Michelle Branch, American singer (The Wreckers) | |
| July 2nd, 1982 (July 02 1982) | Birth | Olivia Munn, American television hostess | |
| July 2nd, 1981 (July 02 1981) | Birth | Alex Koroknay-Palicz, American youth rights activist | |
| July 2nd, 1981 (July 02 1981) | Birth | Angel Pagan, Puerto Rican baseball player | |
| July 2nd, 1981 (July 02 1981) | Birth | Aaron Voros, Canadian hockey player | |
| July 2nd, 1980 (July 02 1980) | Birth | Nicole Manske, American beauty queen and motorsports television commentator | |
| July 2nd, 1979 (July 02 1979) | Event | The first U.S. coin to honor a woman, the Susan B. Anthony dollar, is introduced. | Susan B. Anthony Quotes |
| July 2nd, 1979 (July 02 1979) | Birth | Diana Gurtskaya, Georgian singer | |
| July 2nd, 1979 (July 02 1979) | Birth | Sam Hornish, Jr., American race car driver | |
| July 2nd, 1979 (July 02 1979) | Birth | Joe Thornton, Canadian hockey player | |
| July 2nd, 1978 (July 02 1978) | Birth | Juri Ratas, Estonian politician | |
| July 2nd, 1978 (July 02 1978) | Death | Aris Alexandrou, Greek novelist, poet and translator (born in 1922) | |
| July 2nd, 1977 (July 02 1977) | Death | Vladimir Nabokov, Russian-born writer (born in 1899) | Vladimir Nabokov Quotes |
| July 2nd, 1976 (July 02 1976) | Event | North and South Vietnam, divided since 1954, reunite to form the Socialist Republic of Vietnam. | |
| July 2nd, 1976 (July 02 1976) | Birth | Krisztian Lisztes, Hungarian footballer | |
| July 2nd, 1976 (July 02 1976) | Birth | Tomas Vokoun, Czech hockey player | Tom Ze Quotes |
| July 2nd, 1976 (July 02 1976) | Birth | Ivan Tomic,Croatian buissnesman | |
| July 2nd, 1975 (July 02 1975) | Birth | Erik Ohlsson, Swedish guitarist (Millencolin) | |
| July 2nd, 1975 (July 02 1975) | Birth | Eric Daze, French Canadian ice hockey player | |
| July 2nd, 1975 (July 02 1975) | Death | James Robertson Justice, British actor (born in 1907) | |
| July 2nd, 1974 (July 02 1974) | Birth | Sean Casey, American baseball player | |
| July 2nd, 1974 (July 02 1974) | Birth | Moon So-ri, South Korean actress | |
| July 2nd, 1974 (July 02 1974) | Birth | Matthew Reilly, Australian author | |
| July 2nd, 1974 (July 02 1974) | Birth | Rocky Gray, American musician | |
| July 2nd, 1973 (July 02 1973) | Birth | Peter Kay, British comedian | |
| July 2nd, 1973 (July 02 1973) | Death | Betty Grable, American actress (born in 1916) | |
| July 2nd, 1973 (July 02 1973) | Death | Chick Hafey, baseball player (born in 1903) | |
| July 2nd, 1973 (July 02 1973) | Death | George McBride, baseball player (born in 1880) | |
| July 2nd, 1973 (July 02 1973) | Death | Ferdinand Schorner, German field marshal (born in 1892) | |
| July 2nd, 1972 (July 02 1972) | Birth | Darren Shan, Irish children s author | |
| July 2nd, 1972 (July 02 1972) | Death | Joseph Fielding Smith, tenth president of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (born in 1876) | Joseph Smith Quotes |
| July 2nd, 1971 (July 02 1971) | Event | Australian Evonne Goolagong becomes the first Aborigine to win the Wimbledon singles tennis title. | |
| July 2nd, 1971 (July 02 1971) | Birth | Evelyn Lau, Canadian author | |
| July 2nd, 1971 (July 02 1971) | Birth | Troy Brown, American football player | |
| July 2nd, 1970 (July 02 1970) | Birth | Yancy Butler, American actress | |
| July 2nd, 1970 (July 02 1970) | Birth | Colin Edwin, Australian musician (Porcupine Tree) | |
| July 2nd, 1970 (July 02 1970) | Birth | Scotty 2 Hotty, American wrestler | |
| July 2nd, 1970 (July 02 1970) | Birth | Monie Love, English rapper | |
| July 2nd, 1970 (July 02 1970) | Birth | Steve Morrow, Irish footballer | |
| July 2nd, 1969 (July 02 1969) | Birth | Matthew Cox, American convicted felon | |
| July 2nd, 1969 (July 02 1969) | Death | Michael DiBiase, wrestler (born in 1923) | |
| July 2nd, 1966 (July 02 1966) | Event | The French military explodes a nuclear test bomb codenamed Aldebaran in Mururoa, their first nuclear test in the Pacific. | |
| July 2nd, 1966 (July 02 1966) | Death | Jan Brzechwa, Polish poet (born in 1900) | |
| July 2nd, 1964 (July 02 1964) | Event | President Lyndon B. Johnson signs the Civil Rights Act of 1964 meant to prohibit segregation in public places. | Lyndon Johnson Quotes |
| July 2nd, 1964 (July 02 1964) | Birth | Jose Canseco, Cuban-born American baseball player | Jose Canseco Quotes |
| July 2nd, 1964 (July 02 1964) | Birth | Ozzie Canseco, Cuban-born American baseball player | |
| July 2nd, 1964 (July 02 1964) | Birth | Joe Magrane, American baseball player | |
| July 2nd, 1964 (July 02 1964) | Birth | Charles Robinson, American wrestling referee | |
| July 2nd, 1964 (July 02 1964) | Death | Glenn "Fireball" Roberts, American race car driver (born in 1929) | |
| July 2nd, 1963 (July 02 1963) | Birth | Mark Kermode, British film critic | |
| July 2nd, 1962 (July 02 1962) | Event | The first Wal-Mart store opens for business in Rogers, Arkansas. | |
| July 2nd, 1961 (July 02 1961) | Birth | Michael Lindsay, Voice actor | |
| July 2nd, 1961 (July 02 1961) | Death | Ernest Hemingway, Nobel Prize laureate (born in 1899) | Ernest Hemingway Quotes |
| July 2nd, 1960 (July 02 1960) | Birth | Terry Rossio, American screenwriter | |
| July 2nd, 1959 (July 02 1959) | Birth | Mike Hallett, English snooker player | |
| July 2nd, 1958 (July 02 1958) | Birth | Thomas Bickerton, American Methodist bishop | |
| July 2nd, 1957 (July 02 1957) | Birth | Bret "Hitman" Hart, Canadian wrestler | |
| July 2nd, 1956 (July 02 1956) | Birth | Jerry Hall, American actress | |
| July 2nd, 1955 (July 02 1955) | Birth | Andrew Divoff, Venezuelan actor | |
| July 2nd, 1955 (July 02 1955) | Birth | Kevin Michael Grace, Canadian journalist | |
| July 2nd, 1955 (July 02 1955) | Death | Edward Lawson, Scottish recipient of the Victoria Cross (born in 1873) | |
| July 2nd, 1954 (July 02 1954) | Birth | Pete Briquette, Irish musician (Boomtown Rats) | |
| July 2nd, 1953 (July 02 1953) | Birth | Mark Hart, British musician (Crowded House and Supertramp) | |
| July 2nd, 1953 (July 02 1953) | Birth | Tony Armas, Venezuelan baseball player | |
| July 2nd, 1951 (July 02 1951) | Birth | Michele Santoro, Italian TV journalist | |
| July 2nd, 1950 (July 02 1950) | Event | Kinkaku-ji in Kyoto, Japan burns down. | |
| July 2nd, 1950 (July 02 1950) | Event | Henri Queuille is elected the seventh Prime Minister of the Fourth French Republic. | |
| July 2nd, 1949 (July 02 1949) | Birth | Roy Bittan, American musician (E Street Band) | |
| July 2nd, 1949 (July 02 1949) | Birth | Hanno Poschl, Austrian actor | |
| July 2nd, 1949 (July 02 1949) | Birth | Robert Paquette, French Canadian singer and songwriter | |
| July 2nd, 1948 (July 02 1948) | Birth | Saul Rubinek, Canadian film actor | |
| July 2nd, 1948 (July 02 1948) | Birth | Gene McFadden, American songwriter (died in 2006) | |
| July 2nd, 1947 (July 02 1947) | Birth | Larry David, American television producer | |
| July 2nd, 1946 (July 02 1946) | Birth | Richard Axel, American scientist, Nobel laureate | |
| July 2nd, 1946 (July 02 1946) | Birth | Ron Silver, American actor | |
| July 2nd, 1943 (July 02 1943) | Birth | Walter Godefroot, Belgian cyclist | |
| July 2nd, 1942 (July 02 1942) | Birth | Vicente Fox, Former Mexican president | |
| July 2nd, 1941 (July 02 1941) | Birth | Stephane Venne, French Canadian songwriter | |
| July 2nd, 1940 (July 02 1940) | Event | Indian independence leader Subhas Chandra Bose is arrested and detained in Calcutta. | |
| July 2nd, 1940 (July 02 1940) | Birth | Kenneth Harry Clarke, British politician | Kenneth Clark Quotes |
| July 2nd, 1939 (July 02 1939) | Birth | John H. Sununu, White House Chief of Staff under George HW Bush | |
| July 2nd, 1939 (July 02 1939) | Birth | Alexandros Panagoulis, Greek politician and poet | |
| July 2nd, 1939 (July 02 1939) | Birth | Paul Williams, American singer (The Temptations) (died in 1973) | |
| July 2nd, 1937 (July 02 1937) | Event | Amelia Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan are last heard from over the Pacific Ocean while attempting to make the first equatorial round-the-world flight. | |
| July 2nd, 1937 (July 02 1937) | Birth | Polly Holliday, American actress | |
| July 2nd, 1937 (July 02 1937) | Birth | Richard Petty, American race car driver | |
| July 2nd, 1934 (July 02 1934) | Event | The Night of the Long Knives ends with the death of Ernst Rohm. | |
| July 2nd, 1934 (July 02 1934) | Birth | Tom Springfield, British singer and songwriter (The Springfields) | |
| July 2nd, 1934 (July 02 1934) | Death | Ernst Rohm, Nazi official (born in 1887) | |
| July 2nd, 1933 (July 02 1933) | Birth | Kenny Wharram, Canadian hockey player | |
| July 2nd, 1932 (July 02 1932) | Birth | Dave Thomas, American fast food entrepreneur (died in 2002) | |
| July 2nd, 1932 (July 02 1932) | Death | Manuel II of Portugal (born in 1889) | |
| July 2nd, 1930 (July 02 1930) | Birth | Carlos Menem, President of Argentina | |
| July 2nd, 1929 (July 02 1929) | Birth | Imelda Marcos, First Lady of the Philippines | |
| July 2nd, 1929 (July 02 1929) | Birth | John A. Cade, American politician | |
| July 2nd, 1929 (July 02 1929) | Death | Gladys Brockwell, American actress (born in 1893) | |
| July 2nd, 1927 (July 02 1927) | Birth | Brock Peters, American actor (died in 2005) | |
| July 2nd, 1927 (July 02 1927) | Birth | Gene Ray, Founder of the Time Cube website and proponent of Time Cube philosophy | Gene Ray Quotes |
| July 2nd, 1926 (July 02 1926) | Birth | Octavian Paler, Romanian writer, journalist, (died in 2007) | |
| July 2nd, 1926 (July 02 1926) | Death | Emile Coue, French psychologist (born in 1857) | |
| July 2nd, 1925 (July 02 1925) | Birth | Medgar Evers, American civil rights activist (died in 1963) | |
| July 2nd, 1925 (July 02 1925) | Birth | Patrice Lumumba, Prime Minister of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (died in 1961) | |
| July 2nd, 1923 (July 02 1923) | Birth | Wislawa Szymborska, Polish writer, Nobel laureate | Wislawa Szymborska Quotes |
| July 2nd, 1920 (July 02 1920) | Death | William Louis Marshall, American general and engineer (born in 1846) | |
| July 2nd, 1919 (July 02 1919) | Birth | Jean Craighead George, American writer | |
| July 2nd, 1918 (July 02 1918) | Birth | Wibo, Dutch cartoonist (died in 2005) | |
| July 2nd, 1917 (July 02 1917) | Event | The East St. Louis Riots end. | |
| July 2nd, 1917 (July 02 1917) | Birth | Murry Wilson, American musician and producer (The Beach Boys) (died in 1973) | |
| July 2nd, 1916 (July 02 1916) | Birth | Ken Curtis, American actor and singer (died in 1991) | |
| July 2nd, 1916 (July 02 1916) | Birth | Hans-Ulrich Rudel, Combat pilot and highest-decorated German soldier of WWII (died in 1982) | |
| July 2nd, 1915 (July 02 1915) | Death | Porfirio Diaz, President of Mexico (born in 1830) | |
| July 2nd, 1914 (July 02 1914) | Birth | Frederick Fennell, American conductor (died in 2004) | |
| July 2nd, 1914 (July 02 1914) | Birth | Mario Schenberg, Brazilian physicist (died in 1990) | |
| July 2nd, 1914 (July 02 1914) | Death | Joseph Chamberlain, Mayor of Birmingham and Father of Neville (born in 1836) | Joseph Chamberlain Quotes |
| July 2nd, 1912 (July 02 1912) | Death | Tom Richardson, English cricket player (born in 1870) | |
| July 2nd, 1908 (July 02 1908) | Birth | Thurgood Marshall, American Supreme Court Justice (died in 1993) | |
| July 2nd, 1906 (July 02 1906) | Birth | Hans Bethe, German-born nuclear physicist, Nobel laureate (died in 2005) | |
| July 2nd, 1904 (July 02 1904) | Birth | Rene Lacoste, French tennis player (died in 1996) | |
| July 2nd, 1903 (July 02 1903) | Birth | Alec Douglas-Home, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (died in 1995) | |
| July 2nd, 1903 (July 02 1903) | Birth | King Olav V of Norway (died in 1991) | |
| July 2nd, 1903 (July 02 1903) | Death | Ed Delahanty, American Hall of Fame baseball player (born in 1867) | |
| July 2nd, 1900 (July 02 1900) | Event | First zeppelin flight takes place on Lake Constance near Friedrichshafen, Germany. | |
| July 2nd, 1900 (July 02 1900) | Birth | Tyrone Guthrie, English actor (died in 1971) | |
| July 2nd, 1897 (July 02 1897) | Event | Italian scientist Guglielmo Marconi obtains patent for radio in London. | Guglielmo Marconi Quotes |
| July 2nd, 1896 (July 02 1896) | Birth | Lydia Mei, Estonian artist (died in 1965) | |
| July 2nd, 1893 (July 02 1893) | Birth | Ralph Hancock, Welsh garden designer (Rockefeller Center) (died in 1950) | |
| July 2nd, 1890 (July 02 1890) | Event | The U.S. Congress passes the Sherman Anti-Trust Act. | |
| July 2nd, 1890 (July 02 1890) | Birth | Earl Roy Curry, religious thinker and Kirtland Temple overseer (died in 1980) | |
| July 2nd, 1884 (July 02 1884) | Birth | Alfons Maria Jakob, German neurologist (died in 1931) | |
| July 2nd, 1881 (July 02 1881) | Event | Charles J. Guiteau shoots and fatally wounds U.S. President James Garfield, who eventually dies from infection on September 19. | |
| July 2nd, 1881 (July 02 1881) | Birth | Royal H. Weller, American politician (died in 1929) | |
| July 2nd, 1878 (July 02 1878) | Event | The Brighton Beach Line (now the BMT Brighton Line) opens in the then-city of Brooklyn. | |
| July 2nd, 1877 (July 02 1877) | Birth | Hermann Hesse, German-born writer, Nobel laureate (died in 1962) | Hermann Hesse Quotes |
| July 2nd, 1876 (July 02 1876) | Birth | Wilhelm Cuno, Chancellor of Germany (died in 1933) | |
| July 2nd, 1871 (July 02 1871) | Event | Victor Emmanuel II of Italy enters Rome after its conquest from the Papal States. | |
| July 2nd, 1870 (July 02 1870) | Event | Jules Joseph d Anethan is elected the tenth Prime Minister of Belgium. | |
| July 2nd, 1865 (July 02 1865) | Birth | Lily Braun, German writer (died in 1916) | |
| July 2nd, 1863 (July 02 1863) | Event | American Civil War: second day of the Battle of Gettysburg. | |
| July 2nd, 1862 (July 02 1862) | Birth | William Henry Bragg, English physicist, Nobel laureate (died in 1942) | |
| July 2nd, 1857 (July 02 1857) | Death | Carlo Pisacane, Italian patriot (born in 1818) | |
| July 2nd, 1853 (July 02 1853) | Event | The Russian Army invades Turkey, beginning the Crimean War. | |
| July 2nd, 1850 (July 02 1850) | Event | The self-contained gas mask is patented by Benjamin J. Lane. | |
| July 2nd, 1850 (July 02 1850) | Death | Robert Peel, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (born in 1788) | |
| July 2nd, 1849 (July 02 1849) | Birth | Maria Theresia of Austria-Este, queen of Bavaria (died in 1919) | |
| July 2nd, 1843 (July 02 1843) | Death | Samuel Hahnemann, German physician (born in 1755) | |
| July 2nd, 1839 (July 02 1839) | Event | Twenty miles off the coast of Cuba, 53 rebelling African slaves led by Joseph Cinque take over the slave ship Amistad. | |
| July 2nd, 1833 (July 02 1833) | Death | Gervasio Antonio de Posadas, Argentine politician (born in 1757) | |
| July 2nd, 1823 (July 02 1823) | Event | Bahia Independence Day: the end of Portuguese rule in Brazil, with the final defeat of the Portuguese crown loyalists in the province of Bahia. | |
| July 2nd, 1822 (July 02 1822) | Death | Denmark Vesey, American who planned slave revolt, hanged (born in ca. 1767) | |
| July 2nd, 1821 (July 02 1821) | Birth | Charles Tupper, sixth Prime Minister of Canada (died in 1915) | |
| July 2nd, 1820 (July 02 1820) | Birth | George Law Curry, Newspaper publisher and Governor of Oregon (died in 1878) | |
| July 2nd, 1819 (July 02 1819) | Birth | Charles-Louis Hanon, French composer (died in 1900) | |
| July 2nd, 1808 (July 02 1808) | Event | Simon Fraser reaches the Pacific Ocean near New Westminster. | |
| July 2nd, 1778 (July 02 1778) | Death | Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Swiss philosopher (born in 1712) | Jean-Jacques Rousseau Quotes |
| July 2nd, 1778 (July 02 1778) | Death | Bathsheba Spooner, American murderer | |
| July 2nd, 1777 (July 02 1777) | Event | Vermont becomes the first American territory to abolish slavery. | |
| July 2nd, 1776 (July 02 1776) | Event | The Continental Congress adopts a resolution severing ties with Great Britain although the wording of the formal Declaration of Independence is not approved until July 4. | |
| July 2nd, 1746 (July 02 1746) | Death | Thomas Baker, English antiquarian (born in 1656) | |
| July 2nd, 1743 (July 02 1743) | Death | Spencer Compton, 1st Earl of Wilmington, second Prime Minister of the United Kingdom | |
| July 2nd, 1724 (July 02 1724) | Birth | Friedrich Gottlieb Klopstock, German poet (died in 1803) | Friedrich Gottlieb Klopstock Quotes |
| July 2nd, 1714 (July 02 1714) | Birth | Christoph Willibald von Gluck, German composer (died in 1787) | |
| July 2nd, 1698 (July 02 1698) | Event | Thomas Savery patents the first steam engine | |
| July 2nd, 1698 (July 02 1698) | Birth | Francesco III d Este, Duke of Modena (died in 1780) | |
| July 2nd, 1684 (July 02 1684) | Death | John Rogers, president of Harvard University (born in 1630) | |
| July 2nd, 1679 (July 02 1679) | Event | Europeans first visit Minnesota and see headwaters of Mississippi in an expedition led by Daniel Greysolon de Du Luth. | Solon Quotes |
| July 2nd, 1674 (July 02 1674) | Death | Eberhard III, Duke of Wurttemberg (born in 1614) | |
| July 2nd, 1667 (July 02 1667) | Birth | Pietro Ottoboni, Italian cardinal (died in 1740) | |
| July 2nd, 1665 (July 02 1665) | Birth | Samuel Penhallow, English-born American colonist and historian (died in 1726) | |
| July 2nd, 1656 (July 02 1656) | Death | Francois-Marie, comte de Broglie, Italian-born French commander (born in 1611) | |
| July 2nd, 1647 (July 02 1647) | Birth | Daniel Finch, 2nd Earl of Nottingham, English privy councilor (died in 1730) | |
| July 2nd, 1644 (July 02 1644) | Event | English Civil War: the Battle of Marston Moor. | |
| July 2nd, 1621 (July 02 1621) | Death | Thomas Harriot, English astronomer | |
| July 2nd, 1613 (July 02 1613) | Event | The first English expedition from Massachusetts against Acadia led by Samuel Argall. | |
| July 2nd, 1591 (July 02 1591) | Death | Vincenzo Galilei, Italian composer (born in 1520) | |
| July 2nd, 1582 (July 02 1582) | Event | Battle of Yamazaki: Toyotomi Hideyoshi defeats Akechi Mitsuhide. | |
| July 2nd, 1582 (July 02 1582) | Death | Akechi Mitsuhide, Japanese samurai (born in 1528) | |
| July 2nd, 1578 (July 02 1578) | Event | Martin Frobisher sights Baffin Island. | |
| July 2nd, 1566 (July 02 1566) | Death | Nostradamus, French astrologer (born in 1503) | Nostradamus Quotes |
| July 2nd, 1561 (July 02 1561) | Event | Menas, Emperor of Ethiopia, defeats a revolt in Emfraz. | |
| July 2nd, 1555 (July 02 1555) | Event | Turgut Reis sacks the Italian city of Paola. | |
| July 2nd, 1504 (July 02 1504) | Death | Stefan cel Mare, Prince of Moldova (born in 1434) | |
| July 2nd, 1494 (July 02 1494) | Event | The Treaty of Tordesillas is signed by Spain. | |
| July 2nd, 1492 (July 02 1492) | Birth | Elizabeth Tudor, English princess (died in 1495) | |
| July 2nd, 1489 (July 02 1489) | Birth | Thomas Cranmer, Archbishop of Canterbury (died in 1556) | |
| July 2nd, 1363 (July 02 1363) | Birth | Mary, Queen of Sicily (died in 1401) | |
| July 2nd, 1298 (July 02 1298) | Event | The Battle of Gollheim is fought between Albert I of Habsburg and Adolf of Nassau-Weilburg. | |
| July 2nd, 1298 (July 02 1298) | Death | Adolf of Nassau-Weilburg, King of the Romans(born in 1220) | |
| July 2nd, 1262 (July 02 1262) | Birth | Arthur II, Duke of Brittany (died in 1312) | |
| July 2nd, 1029 (July 02 1029) | Birth | Caliph Al-Mustansir of Cairo (died in 1094) | |
| July 2nd, 0963 (July 02 0963) | Event | The imperial army proclaims Nicephorus Phocas to be Emperor of the Romans on the plains outside Cappadocian Caesarea. | |
| July 2nd, 0862 (July 02 0862) | Death | St. Swithun, Bishop of Winchester(born in 789) | |
| July 2nd, 0706 (July 02 0706) | Event | 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. | Tom Ze Quotes |
| July 2nd, 0626 (July 02 0626) | Event | 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. | |
| July 2nd, 0419 (July 02 0419) | Birth | Valentinian III, Roman Emperor (died in 455) | |
| July 2nd, 0310 (July 02 0310) | Event | Pope Miltiades is elected. | |
