Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/July 2
This is a list of selected July 2 anniversaries that appear in the "On this day" section of the Main Page. To suggest a new item, in most cases, you can be bold and edit this page. Please read the selected anniversaries guidelines before making your edit. However, if your addition might be controversial or on a day that is or will soon be on the Main Page, please post your suggestion on the talk page instead.
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The first Zeppelin
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US President Lyndon B. Johnson signs the 1964 Civil Rights Act
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Amelia Earhart
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Battle of Marston Moor
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Kinkaku-ji, Kyoto, Japan
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The Raft of the Medusa
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Aftermath of the Jerusalem ramming attack
Ineligible
| Blurb | Reason |
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| 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
- 706 – The bodies of Emperor Gaozong of Tang and Empress Wu Zetian were interred in the Qianling Mausoleum.
- 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).
- 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.
- 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 – A Mw 6.1 strike-slip earthquake killed at least 35 people and injured 276 others in the Indonesian province of Aceh on the northern end of Sumatra.
- 2013 – The International Astronomical Union announced that the fourth and fifth moons of Pluto to be discovered would be named Kerberos and Styx, respectively.
- 2020 – A landslide at a jade mine in Hpakant killed 175-200 miners, the deadliest mining accident in Burmese history.
- Born/died this day: | Denmark Vesey |d|1822| Walter Potter |b|1835| 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| Ernest Hemingway |d|1961| Alicia Patterson |d|1963| Joseph Fielding Smith|d|1972| Sam Hornish Jr. |b|1979| Alex Morgan|b|1989| Douglas Engelbart|d|2013
James A. Garfield
- 626 – Li Shimin led his forces to assassinate his rival brothers in a coup for the imperial throne of Tang China.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- Walter Potter (b. 1835)
- Erich Topp (b. 1914)
- Joseph Fielding Smith (d. 1972)
- Sam Hornish Jr. (b. 1979)