Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/July 2

July 2:

• 1644 - The Battle of Marston Moor, one of the decisive encounters of the English Civil War, was fought near York.

• 1839 - 53 African slaves mutinied on the slave ship La Amistad off the coast of Cuba.

• 1900 - First Zeppelin flight (pictured) occurred over Lake Constance near Friedrichshafen, Germany.

• 1937 - Amelia Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan disappeared over the Pacific Ocean during an attempt to make a circumnavigational flight.

• 1976 - North and South Vietnam united under communist rule to form the Socialist Republic of Vietnam.

• 1997 - The Thai baht rapidly lost half of its value, marking the beginning of the 1997 East Asian financial crisis.

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