July 2
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[edit] Events
- 1644 - English Civil War: Battle of Marston Moor.
- 1679 - Europeans led by Daniel Greysolon de Du Luth visit what would become Minnesota and see the headwaters of Mississippi River
- 1853 - The Russian Army invades Turkey, beginning the Crimean War.
- 1863 - American Civil War: Second day of the Battle of Gettysburg.
- 1881 - Charles J. Guiteau shoots and fatally wounds U.S. President James Garfield, who eventually dies from infection on September 19.
- 1900 - First zeppelin flight on Lake Constance near Friedrichshafen, Germany.
- 1917 - Forty-eight die in race riots in East St. Louis, Illinois
- 1934 - The end of the Night of the Long Knives, with the death of the German Military Officer Ernst Röhm
- 1937 - Amelia Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan disappear over the Pacific Ocean while attempting to make the first equatorial round-the-world flight.
- 1947 - An object speculated to be a UFO crashes near Roswell, New Mexico, though the United States Air Force claims it is a weather balloon.
- 1962 - The first Wal-Mart store opens in Rogers, Arkansas.
- 1964 - President Lyndon B. Johnson signs the Civil Rights Act of 1964, which prohibits segregation in public places.
- 1976 - North and South Vietnam, divided since 1954, reunite to form the Socialist Republic of Vietnam.
[edit] Births
- 1877 - Hermann Hesse, German-born writer, Nobel laureate (d. 1962)
- 1903 - Alec Douglas-Home, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (d. 1995)
- 1903 - King Olav V of Norway (d. 1991)
- 1906 - Hans Bethe, German-born nuclear physicist, Nobel laureate (d. 2005)
- 1908 - Thurgood Marshall, American Supreme Court Justice (d. 1993)
- 1916 - Hans-Ulrich Rudel, Combat pilot and highest-decorated German soldier of WWII (d. 1982)
- 1925 - Medgar Evers, Black activist (d. 1963)
- 1925 - Patrice Lumumba, Prime Minister of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (d. 1961)
- 1930 - Carlos Menem, President of Argentina
- 1942 - Vicente Fox, Former Mexican president
[edit] Deaths
