About July 2
July 2, 2025 is the 183rd day of the year 2025 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 182 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Wednesday.
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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 230 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
- 437 –Emperor Valentinian III, begins his reign over the Western Roman Empire. His mother Galla Placidia ends her regency, but continues to exercise political influence at the court in Rome.
- 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.
- 1494 –The Treaty of Tordesillas is ratified by Spain.
- 1582 –Battle of Yamazaki: Toyotomi Hideyoshi defeats Akechi Mitsuhide.
- 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.
- 1777 –Vermont becomes the first American territory to abolish slavery.
- 1839 –Twenty miles off the coast of Cuba, 53 rebelling African slaves led by Joseph Cinqué take over the slave ship Amistad.
- 1853 –The Russian Army crossed the Pruth river into the Danubian Principalities, Moldavia and Wallachia—providing the spark that set off the Crimean War.
- 1890 –The U.S. Congress passes the Sherman Anti-Trust Act.
- 1897 –Italian scientist Guglielmo Marconi obtains a patent for radio in London.
- 1917 –The East St. Louis Riots end.
- 1934 –The Night of the Long Knives ends with the death of Ernst Röhm.
- 1940 –Indian independence leader Subhas Chandra Bose is arrested and detained in Calcutta.
- 1962 –The first Wal-Mart store opens for business in Rogers, Arkansas.
- 1964 –U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson signs the Civil Rights Act of 1964 meant to prohibit segregation in public places.
- 1966 –The French military explodes a nuclear test bomb codenamed Aldébaran in Mururoa, their first nuclear test in the Pacific.
- 1976 –Fall of the Republic of Vietnam; Communist North Vietnam declares their union to form the Socialist Republic of Vietnam.
- 1986 –Rodrigo Rojas and Carmen Gloria Quintana where burnt alive during a street demonstration against the dictatorship of General Augusto Pinochet in Chile.
- 2002 –Steve Fossett becomes the first person to fly solo around the world nonstop in a balloon.
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