About July 2
July 2, 2021 is the 183rd day of the year 2021 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 182 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Friday.
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Cancer is the sun sign of a person born on this day. Ruby is the modern birthstone for this month. Ruby is the mystical birthstone from Tibetan origin that dates back over a thousand years.
According to the lunisolar Chinese calendar, there are 214 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.
July 2: More About This Day
This day is the midpoint of a common year because there are 182 days before and 182 days after (median of the year) in common years, and 183 before and 182 after in leap years. The exact time in the middle of the year is at noon, or 12:00 p.m. In the UK and other countries that use “Summer Time” the actual exact time of the mid point in a common year is at 1:00 p.m. this is when 182 days and 12 hours have elapsed and there are 182 days and 12 hours remaining. This is due to Summer Time having advanced the time by one hour. It falls on the same day of the week as New Year’s Day in common years.
What Happened On July 2
- 626 –Li Shimin, the future Emperor Taizong of Tang, Emperor of China, ambushes and kills his rival brothers Li Yuanji and Li Jiancheng in the Incident at Xuanwu Gate.
- 1298 –The Battle of Göllheim is fought between Albert I of Habsburg and Adolf of Nassau-Weilburg.
- 1582 –Battle of Yamazaki: Toyotomi Hideyoshi defeats Akechi Mitsuhide.
- 1613 –The first English expedition from Massachusetts against Acadia led by Samuel Argall takes place.
- 1644 –English Civil War: Battle of Marston Moor.
- 1679 –Europeans first visit Minnesota and see headwaters of Mississippi in an expedition led by Daniel Greysolon de Du Luth.
- 1698 –Thomas Savery patents the first steam engine.
- 1776 –The Continental Congress adopts a resolution severing ties with Great Britain although the wording of the formal Declaration of Independence is not approved until July 4.
- 1777 –Vermont becomes the first American territory to abolish slavery.
- 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.
- 1900 –The first Zeppelin flight takes place on Lake Constance near Friedrichshafen, Germany.
- 1917 –The East St. Louis Riots end.
- 1934 –The Night of the Long Knives ends with the death of Ernst Röhm.
- 1937 –Amelia Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan are last heard from over the Pacific Ocean while attempting to make the first equatorial round-the-world flight.
- 1950 –The Golden Pavilion at Kinkaku-ji in Kyoto, Japan burns down.
- 1962 –The first Wal-Mart store opens for business in Rogers, Arkansas.
- 1993 –37 participants in an Alevi cultural and literary festival are killed when a mob of demonstrators set fire to their hotel in Sivas during a violent protest.
- 2001 –The AbioCor self contained artificial heart is first implanted.
- 2002 –Steve Fossett becomes the first person to fly solo around the world nonstop in a balloon.
- 2010 –The South Kivu tank truck explosion in the Democratic Republic of the Congo kills at least 230 people.
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