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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, 2004 (July 02 2004) | Event | ASEAN Regional Forum accepts Pakistan as its 24th member.? | |
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, 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, 1992 (July 02 1992) | Event | Vaclav Klaus is elected Prime Minister of Czechoslovakia. | |
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, 1987 (July 02 1987) | Event | Nilde Iotti is named as the first female President of the Italian Chamber of Deputies. | |
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, 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, 1976 (July 02 1976) | Event | North and South Vietnam, divided since 1954, reunite to form the Socialist Republic of Vietnam. | |
July 2nd, 1971 (July 02 1971) | Event | Australian Evonne Goolagong becomes the first Aborigine to win the Wimbledon singles tennis title. | |
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, 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, 1962 (July 02 1962) | Event | The first Wal-Mart store opens for business in Rogers, Arkansas. | |
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, 1940 (July 02 1940) | Event | Indian independence leader Subhas Chandra Bose is arrested and detained in Calcutta. | |
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, 1934 (July 02 1934) | Event | The Night of the Long Knives ends with the death of Ernst Rohm. | |
July 2nd, 1917 (July 02 1917) | Event | The East St. Louis Riots end. | |
July 2nd, 1900 (July 02 1900) | Event | First zeppelin flight takes place on Lake Constance near Friedrichshafen, Germany. | |
July 2nd, 1897 (July 02 1897) | Event | Italian scientist Guglielmo Marconi obtains patent for radio in London. | Guglielmo Marconi Quotes |
July 2nd, 1890 (July 02 1890) | Event | The U.S. Congress passes the Sherman Anti-Trust Act. | |
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, 1878 (July 02 1878) | Event | The Brighton Beach Line (now the BMT Brighton Line) opens in the then-city of Brooklyn. | |
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, 1863 (July 02 1863) | Event | American Civil War: second day of the Battle of Gettysburg. | |
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, 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, 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, 1808 (July 02 1808) | Event | Simon Fraser reaches the Pacific Ocean near New Westminster. | |
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, 1698 (July 02 1698) | Event | Thomas Savery patents the first steam engine | |
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, 1644 (July 02 1644) | Event | English Civil War: the Battle of Marston Moor. | |
July 2nd, 1613 (July 02 1613) | Event | The first English expedition from Massachusetts against Acadia led by Samuel Argall. | |
July 2nd, 1582 (July 02 1582) | Event | Battle of Yamazaki: Toyotomi Hideyoshi defeats Akechi Mitsuhide. | |
July 2nd, 1578 (July 02 1578) | Event | Martin Frobisher sights Baffin Island. | |
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, 1494 (July 02 1494) | Event | The Treaty of Tordesillas is signed by Spain. | |
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, 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, 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, 0310 (July 02 0310) | Event | Pope Miltiades is elected. | |