Historical Events on July 2

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• 311 St Militiades begins his reign as Catholic Pope
• 626 Incident at Xuanwu Gate: in fear of assassination, Li Shimin ambushes and kills his rival brothers Li Yuanji and Li Jiancheng
• 706 Remains of Chinese Emperor Gaozong, his wife Empress Wu Zetian and family members interred in Qianling Mausoleum by Emperor Zhongzong, outside Chang'an on Mount Liangshan
• 963 The imperial army proclaims Nicephorus Phocas to be Emperor of the Romans on the plains outside Cappadocian Caesarea
• 1140 Hartbert becomes bishop of Utrecht
• 1214 Battle of La Roche-aux-Moines (Angers), part of King John of England attempt to reclaim Normandy from France
• 1298 Battle on Hasenbuhl (Gollheim) between German kings Adolf and Albrecht I

• 1555 Turgut Reis sacks the Italian city of Paola
• 1561 Menas, Emperor of Ethiopia, defeats a revolt in Emfraz
• 1576 Muitende Spanish soldiers conquer Zierik Sea
• 1578 Martin Frobisher sights Baffin Island
• 1582 Battle of Yamazaki: Toyotomi Hideyoshi defeats Akechi Mitsuhide
• 1600 Battle at Newport: Earl Mauritius van Nassau beats Spanish Army
• 1613 The first English expedition from Massachusetts against Acadia led by Samuel Argall
• 1644 Battle of Marston Moor, North Yorkshire: Parliamentary forces under Lords Fairfax and Manchester defeat royalists led by Prince Rupert
• 1679 Europeans first visit Minnesota and see headwaters of Mississippi in an expedition led by Daniel Greysolon de Du Luth
• 1681 Earl of Shaftesbury arrested for high treason
• 1687 King James II disbands English parliament
• 1698 Thomas Savery patents the first steam engine
• 1776 New Jersey gives the right to vote to all adults who could show a net worth of 50 pounds
• 1776 Continental Congress resolves "these United Colonies are & of right ought to be Free and Independent States"

• 1794 Second Battle of Seneffe: France-Austria
• 1808 Simon Fraser completes his trip down Fraser River, British Columbia, lands at Musqueam
• 1816 French frigate "La Méduse" runs aground under incompetent leadership of aristocrat Viscount of Chaumareys, forcing evacuation of 400 passengers. 150 men, 1 woman are left on "la Machine," a poorly provisioned raft. 13 days later only 15 survivors remain due to starvation, riots, madness, suicide, and cannibalism
• 1823 Bahia Independence Day: the end of Portuguese rule in Brazil, with the final defeat of the Portuguese crown loyalists in the province of Bahia
• 1839 Slaves aboard a Spanish schooner La Amistad revolt to secure their freedom while being transported from one Cuban port to another

• 1847 Envelope bearing 1st US 10 cent stamps used (still exists today)

• 1850 Benjamin Lane patents gas mask with a breathing apparatus
• 1858 Partial emancipation of Russian serfs
• 1861 Battle of Hoke's Run, WV - small Union victory
• 1862 Lincoln signs act granting land for state agricultural colleges
• 1863 Battle of Gettysburg (2nd day)
• 1863 R Morgan's: Burksville, Kentucky to Salineville, Ohio [->JUL 26]
• 1864 General Early and Confederate forces reach Winchester en route to Washington, D.C.
• 1864 Statuary Hall in US Capitol forms
• 1865 One-time Methodist Reform Church minister William Booth and his wife Catherine found the Salvation Army (Army of the Salvation) as the East London Christian Mission
• 1867 1st US elevated railroad begins service, NYC
• 1870 Jules Joseph d'Anethan is elected the tenth Prime Minister of Belgium

• 1885 Canada's North-west Insurrection ends with surrender of Big Bear
• 1890 Congress passes Sherman Antitrust Act
• 1894 Government obtains injunction against striking Pullman Workers
• 1900 Sibelius' "Finlandia" premieres in Helsinki

• 1902 John J McGraw becomes manager of NY Giants (stays for 30 years)

• 1902 26th Wimbledon Men's Tennis: Laurence Doherty beats A Gore (6-4 6-3 3-6 6-0)
• 1903 AL/NL batting champ Ed Delahanty, disappears, found dead days later
• 1903 Pitcher Jack Doscher, 1 son of a major leaguer debuts with Cubs
• 1906 Yanks win by forfeit for the 1st time
• 1907 21st U.S. Women's National Championship: Evelyn Sears beats Carrie Neely (6-3, 6-2)
• 1915 Erich Muenter, an instructor in German at Cornell University, explodes a bomb in the US Senate reception room

• 1916 Russian offensive in Armenia
• 1917 Riots in East St Louis, Missouri
• 1921 41st Wimbledon Men's Tennis: Bill Tilden beats Brian Norton (4-6 2-6 6-1 6-0 7-5)

• 1926 US Army Air Corps created; Distinguish Flying Cross authorized
• 1927 40th Wimbledon Women's Tennis: Helen Moody beats Lilí Álvarez (6-2 6-4)
• 1927 Jericho Earthquake in Palestine kills about 500
• 1928 British parliament reduces the age at women can vote to 21 - the same as men (Representation of the People Act 1928)
• 1928 The Jenkins Television Corporation (owned by Charles Jenkins) goes on air with W3XK, the first television broadcasting station in the USA
• 1932 52nd Wimbledon Men's Tennis: Ellsworth Vines beats H Austin (6-4 6-2 6-0)

• 1933 Carl Hubbell shuts-out Cards 1-0 in 18 innings without a walk
• 1934 General Lazaro Cardenas elected president of Mexico
• 1935 Great Britain boxing team beat US team in 1st international Golden Gloves
• 1937 57th Wimbledon Men's Tennis: Don Budge beats G von Cramm (6-3 6-4 6-2)

• 1937 50th Wimbledon Women's Tennis: Dorothy Little beats J Jędrzejowska (6-2 2-6 7-5)
• 1938 51st Wimbledon Women's Tennis: Helen Moody beats Helen Jacobs (6-4 6-0)
• 1940 Dutch PM Colijn publishes "Borders of 2 Worlds" (German victory)

• 1940 Lake Washington (Seattle) Floating bridge dedicated

• 1940 Indian independence leader Subhas Chandra Bose is arrested and detained in Calcutta
• 1941 DiMaggio breaks Willie Keeler's 44 game hitting streak (45th of 56)
• 1941 Nazi mass murder in Lvov/Lemberg (7,000 dead)
• 1941 Noel Coward's "Blithe Spirit" premieres in London
• 1943 Gulf of Biskaje: Liberator bombers sinks U-126
• 1943 Indians score 12 runs in 4th inning & beat Yankees 12-0
• 1943 Lieutenant Charles Hall becomes 1st African American pilot to shoot down a Nazi plane
• 1944 German Field Marshal Günther von Kluge replaces General von Rundstedt
• 1946 Dutch Beel government forms
• 1946 Harbor workers end strike at Rotterdam and Amsterdam
• 1947 Military coup discovered in France
• 1948 62nd Wimbledon Men's Tennis: Falkenburg beats Bromwich (7-5 0-6 6-2 3-6 7-5)
• 1948 77th British Golf Open: Henry Cotton shoots a 284 at Muirfield

• 1949 "High Button Shoes" closes at Century Theater NYC after 727 performances
• 1949 "Red Barber's Clubhouse" sports show premieres on CBS (later NBC) TV
• 1949 56th Wimbledon Women's Tennis: L Brough beats M duPont (10-8 1-6 10-8)
• 1950 Indian Bob Feller, wins his 200th game, 5-3 over Detroit
• 1950 Kinkaku-ji in Kyoto, Japan, burns down
• 1950 Henri Queuille is elected the seventh Prime Minister of the Fourth French Republic
• 1951 Bill Veeck buys St Louis Browns from Bill & Charlie DeWitt
• 1951 "Bob & Ray show" premieres on NBC radio
• 1951 Hugo Yarnold stumps 6 at Dundee, Worcester v Scotland
• 1951 Island advisor of Curacao installed
• 1951 Leidse astronomers discover radio signal out of Milky Way system
• 1952 Princess Beatrice opens miniature city of Madurodam
• 1954 68th Wimbledon Men's Tennis: Jaroslav Drobný beats Ken Rosewall (13-11 4-6 6-2 9-7)
• 1954 Denis Compton scores 278 in 290 minutes v Pakistan
• 1955 "7th Heaven" closes at ANTA Theater NYC after 44 performances
• 1955 "Almost Crazy" closes at Longacre Theater NYC after 16 performances
• 1955 "Lawrence Welk Show" premieres on ABC
• 1955 10th US Women's Open Golf Championship won by Fay Crocker
• 1955 62nd Wimbledon Women's Tennis: Louise Brough beats B Fleitz (7-5 8-6)

• 1956 US performs nuclear test at Enwetak (atmospheric tests)
• 1957 1st submarine designed to fire guided missiles launched, Grayback
• 1957 Pope Pius XII publishes encyclical Le pelerinage De Lourdes
• 1958 US performs atmospheric nuclear test at Bikini Island
• 1959 Ed Wood's "Plan 9 From Outer Space", called one of the worse films ever, premieres
• 1960 "Once Upon a Mattress" closes at Alvin Theater NYC after 460 performances

• 1963 Juan Marichal (Giants) beats Warren Spahn (Braves), 1-0 in 16 innings

• 1964 Grand jury indicts Beckwith in murder of Medger Evers

• 1965 79th Wimbledon Men's Tennis: Roy Emerson beats Fred Stolle (62 64 64)
• 1966 1st France nuclear test on Mururoa atoll
• 1966 73rd Wimbledon Women's Tennis: Billie Jean King (Miss Moffat) beats Maria Bueno (6-3 3-6 6-1)
• 1967 22nd US Women's Open Golf Championship won by Catherine Lacoste
• 1967 Catherine Lacoste becomes youngest (22), 1st foreigner (France) and 1st amateur to US Women's open golf tournament
• 1968 An El Al Israeli airliner is hijacked and diverted to Algeria by three armed members of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP)
• 1969 Ireland bowl out West Indies for 25 at Londonderry, win by 9 wkts
• 1969 Leslie West & Felix Pappalardi form rock group Mountain
• 1970 1st Boeing 747 to land in Amsterdam & Brussels
• 1970 NY Yankees Horace Clarke breaks up a no-hitter in the 9th for 3rd time in 28 days
• 1970 The Prevention of Incitement to Hatred Act (Northern Ireland) is introduced; it proves difficult to secure convictions under its provisions, seldom enforced
• 1970 Neil Blaney is found not guilty of illegal arms importation to the Irish Republican Army by a Dublin jury
• 1971 78th Wimbledon Women's Tennis: Evonne Goolagong beats Margaret Smith (64 61)
• 1971 USSR performs underground nuclear test
• 1972 "Fiddler on the Roof" closes at Imperial Theater NYC after 3242 performances
• 1972 27th US Women's Open Golf Championship won by Susie Maxwell Berning
• 1972 Bob Seagren pole vaults world record 5.63m
• 1972 India and Pakistan sign Simla Agreement peace accord
• 1972 Two Catholic civilians are shot and killed in Belfast by Loyalist paramilitaries, probably the Ulster Defence Association (UDA)
• 1973 James R Schlesinger ends term as 9th director of CIA
• 1973 Nation Black Network begins operation on radio
• 1973 "You've Never Been This Far Before" single released by Conway Twitty (Billboard Song of the Year 1973)
• 1974 Fernando Mameda of Portugal sets record for 10,000 m (27:13.81)
• 1976 83rd Wimbledon Women's Tennis: Chris Evert beats Evonne Goolagong (63 46 86)
• 1976 Formal reunification of North and South Vietnam
• 1976 US Supreme Court rules death penalty not inherently cruel or unusual
• 1976 Ramble Inn attack: the Ulster Volunteer Force killed 6 civilians (5 Protestants, 1 Catholic) in a gun attack at a pub near Antrim; the pub was targeted because it was owned by Catholics
• 1977 91st Wimbledon Men's Tennis: Bjorn Borg beats Connors (36 62 61 57 64)
• 1978 Pitcher Ron Guidry sets Yankee record of 13-0 start

• 1980 Grateful Dead's Bob Weir and Mickey Hart are arrested for incitement
• 1980 Julie Marie Bryan, 18, of Georgia, crowned America's Young Woman of Yr
• 1980 Comedy film "Airplane!" written and directed by David Zucker, Jim Abrahams, and Jerry Zucker and starring Robert Hays and Julie Hagerty premieres
• 1982 Larry Walters using lawn chair & 42 helium balloons, rose to 16,000'
• 1982 Soyuz T-6 returns to Earth
• 1982 In South Africa, the Internal Security Act is passed, giving massive powers to the authorities to investigate any organization or publication
• 1983 90th Wimbledon Women's Tennis: Martina Navratilova beats A Jaeger (60 63)
• 1985 Andrei Gromyko appointed president of USSR
• 1985 European Space Agency launches Giotto (Halley's Comet Flyby)

• 1986 US Supreme Court upholds affirmative action in 2 rulings
• 1987 Jim Eisenreich's comeback after nervous disorder in 1984
• 1987 Nilde Iotti is named as the first female President of the Italian Chamber of Deputies.
• 1988 95th Wimbledon Women's Tennis Open: Steffi Graf beats Navratilova (5-7 6-2 6-1)
• 1988 Lester Dumakude, commander of an Umkhonto we Sizwe special operations unit, detonate a car bomb by remote control outside Ellis Park Stadium in Johannesburg, South Africa
• 1989 10th U.S. Senior Golf Open: Orville Moody
• 1989 17th du Maurier Golf Classic: Tammie Green

• 1990 Panic in tunnel of Mecca: 1,426 pilgrims trampled to death
• 1991 Riot at Guns N' Roses concert in St Louis

• 1992 Braniff Airlines goes out of business
• 1993 Boat sinks at Bocaue Philippines, 325 die
• 1993 F-28 crashes at Sorong Irian Barat, 41 die
• 1993 Kansas Royals rename stadium Ewing Kaufman Stadium after founder
• 1993 Muslim fundamentalists in Sivas, Turkey, set hotel on fire, kill 36
• 1993 NY Met Anthony Young loses a record 25th straight game (goes to 27)

• 1994 101st Wimbledon Women's Tennis: Conchita Martínez beats Martina Navratilova (64 36 63)
• 1994 John Wayne Bobbitt & Kristina Elliot arrested for domestic battery
• 1994 Richard Johnson takes 10-45 for Middlesex against Derbyshire
• 1994 US Air DC-9 crash in North Carolina, 37 killed
• 1995 "Rose Tattoo" closes at Circle in the Square NYC after 80 performances
• 1995 16th U.S. Senior Golf Open: Tom Weiskopf
• 1995 Michelle McGann wins Youngstown-Warren LPGA Golf Classic
• 1995 Thailand: Banharn Silpa-Archa's party wins election
• 1998 "Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets" the second book in the series is published by Bloomsbury in the UK

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