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, 29,190,240 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 ‘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
- 1582 –Battle of Yamazaki: Toyotomi Hideyoshi defeats Akechi Mitsuhide.
- 1644 –English Civil War: Battle of Marston Moor.
- 1853 –The Russian Army crossed the Pruth river into the Danubian Principalities, Moldavia and Wallachia—providing the spark that set off the Crimean War.
- 1881 –Charles J. Guiteau shoots and fatally wounds U.S. President James Garfield, who eventually dies from an infection on September 19.
- 1890 –The U.S. Congress passes the Sherman Anti-Trust Act.
- 1897 –Italian scientist Guglielmo Marconi obtains a patent for radio in London.
- 1900 –The first Zeppelin flight takes place on Lake Constance near Friedrichshafen, Germany.
- 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.
- 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.
Who were born on July 2?
- 1698 –Francesco III d'Este, Duke of Modena (d. 1780)
- 1821 –Charles Tupper, 6th Prime Minister of Canada (d. 1915)
- 1896 –Lydia Mei, Estonian painter (d. 1965)
- 1914 –Mário Schenberg, Brazilian physicist (d. 1990)
- 1934 –Tom Springfield, British singer and songwriter (The Springfields)
- 1963 –Mark Kermode, British film critic
- 1964 –Andrea Yates, American murderer
- 1971 –Troy Brown, American football player
- 1981 –Alex Koroknay-Palicz, American youth rights activist
- 1985 –Chad Henne, American football player
Who died on July 2?
- 1582 –Akechi Mitsuhide, Japanese samurai (b. 1528)
- 1743 –Spencer Compton, 1st Earl of Wilmington, 2nd Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1673)
- 1843 –Samuel Hahnemann, German physician (b. 1755)
- 1955 –Edward Lawson, Scottish soldier, Victoria Cross recipient (b. 1873)
- 1964 –Edward Glenn “Fireball” Roberts, American race car driver (b. 1929)
- 1973 –Ferdinand Schörner, German field marshal (b. 1892)
- 1975 –James Robertson Justice, British actor (b. 1907)
- 1977 –Vladimir Nabokov, Russian-born writer (b. 1899)
- 1997 –James Stewart, American actor (b. 1908)
- 2002 –Ray Brown, American jazz bassist (b. 1926)
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