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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Ineligible
| Blurb | Reason |
|---|---|
| Feast day of Martinian and Processus (Roman Catholic Church) | lots of CN tags |
| 963 – The Eastern forces of the Byzantine army proclaimed Nicephorus Phocas to be Byzantine Emperor on the plains outside Cappadocian Caesarea. | needs more footnotes |
| 1839 – Over fifty African slaves mutinied on the slave ship La Amistad off the coast of Cuba. | refimprove |
| 1890 – The U.S. Congress passed the Sherman Antitrust Act, the first United States government action to limit monopolies. | missing info |
| 1900 – The first Zeppelin flight occurred over Lake Constance near Friedrichshafen, Germany. | refimprove sections |
| 1937 – Aviation pioneer Amelia Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan disappeared over the Pacific Ocean during an attempt to make a circumnavigational flight. | refimprove section |
| 1976 – More than a year after the end of the Vietnam War, North and South Vietnam officially united under communist rule to form the Socialist Republic of Vietnam. | single source section |
| 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: lots of CN tags; Fox: oudated |
| Robert Peel (d. 1850) · | refimprove section |
Eligible
- 626 – During the Xuanwu Gate Incident, Prince Li Shimin led his forces to assassinate his rival brothers in a coup for the imperial throne of the Tang dynasty.
- 1644 – The combined forces of the Scottish Covenanters and the English Parliamentarians defeated the Royalists at the Battle of Marston Moor, one of the decisive encounters of the English Civil War.
- 1816 – The French frigate Méduse ran aground off the coast of today's Mauritania, with the survivors escaping on a makeshift raft, which was depicted in Théodore Géricault's painting The Raft of the Medusa.
- 1917 – White residents of East St. Louis, Illinois, burned sections of the city and shot black inhabitants as they escaped the flames.
- 1962 – The first Walmart store, now the largest company in the world by revenue, opened in Rogers, Arkansas, U.S.
- 1964 – U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson signed the Civil Rights Act into law, outlawing segregation in schools, at the workplace, and other facilities that served the general public.
- 2002 – American aviator Steve Fossett became the first person to fly solo nonstop around the world in a balloon, completing an almost 14-day trip after landing in Queensland, Australia.
- Born/died: Theodoor Rombouts (b. 1597) · Charles Tupper (b. 1821) · Leonard J. Arrington (b. 1917) ·
- 706 – In China, the bodies of Emperor Gaozong of Tang and Empress Wu Zetian were interred in the Qianling Mausoleum, the only imperial Tang dynasty tombs that were untouched by grave robbers.
- 1881 – U.S. President James A. Garfield was fatally shot at the Baltimore and Potomac Railroad station in Washington, D.C.
- 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.
- 1950 – A mentally ill Buddhist monk set fire to the Golden Pavilion at Kinkaku-ji (restoration pictured), destroying what is now one of the most popular tourist destinations in Japan.
- 2013 – The International Astronomical Union announced that the fourth and fifth moons of Pluto would be named Kerberos and Styx respectively.
Denmark Vesey (d. 1822) · Harriet Brooks (b. 1876) · Ernest Hemingway (d. 1961)