July 2 Historical Events
The following events took place on July 2. The list is arranged in chronological order.
Found 47 events. Showing 31 - 47.
- 1937Amelia Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan are last heard from over the Pacific Ocean while attempting to make the first equatorial round-the-world flight.
- 1940Indian independence leader Subhas Chandra Bose is arrested and detained in Calcutta.
- 1950The Golden Pavilion at Kinkaku-ji in Kyoto, Japan burns down.
- 1962The first Wal-Mart store opens for business in Rogers, Arkansas.
- 1964U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson signs the Civil Rights Act of 1964 meant to prohibit segregation in public places.
- 1966The French military explodes a nuclear test bomb codenamed Aldébaran in Moruroa, their first nuclear test in the Pacific.
- 1976Fall of the Republic of Vietnam; Communist North Vietnam declares their union to form the Socialist Republic of Vietnam.
- 1986Rodrigo Rojas and Carmen Gloria Quintana are burnt alive during a street demonstration against the dictatorship of General Augusto Pinochet in Chile.
- 2000Vicente Fox Quesada is elected the first President of México from an opposition party, the Partido Acción Nacional, after more than 70 years of continuous rule by the Partido Revolucionario Institucional.
- 2001The AbioCor self-contained artificial heart is first implanted.
- 2002Steve Fossett becomes the first person to fly solo around the world nonstop in a balloon.
- 2005The Live 8 benefit concerts takes place in the G8 states and in South Africa. More than 1,000 musicians perform and are broadcast on 182 television networks and 2,000 radio networks.
- 2010The South Kivu tank truck explosion in the Democratic Republic of the Congo kills at least 230 people.
- 2013The International Astronomical Union names Pluto’s fourth and fifth moons, Kerberos and Styx.
- 2013A 6.1 magnitude earthquake strikes Aceh, Indonesia, killing at least 42 people and injuring 420 others.
- 2015A bridge collapses under a Pakistan Army train at Gujranwala, killing nineteen and injuring over 100
- 2015A ferry capsizes in Ormoc, Leyte, Philippines, killing 62 of 220 passengers.
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