Today in History
2 July
163 births · 96 deaths · 29 events recorded
Notable Births
All 163 ›
Julia Grabher
b. 1996
Austrian tennis player (born 1996)
Ryan Murphy (swimmer)
b. 1995
American swimmer (born 1995)
Henrik Kristoffersen
b. 1994
Norwegian alpine skier (born 1994)
Derrick White
b. 1994
American basketball player (born 1994)
Vince Staples
b. 1993
American rapper and actor (born 1993)
Saweetie
b. 1993
American rapper (born 1993)
Joe Thornton
b. 1979
Canadian ice hockey player (born 1979)
Thurgood Marshall
b. 1908
US Supreme Court justice from 1967 to 1991
Notable Deaths
All 96 ›
Julian McMahon
d. 2025
Australian and American actor (1968–2025)
Ángela Jeria
d. 2020
Chilean mother of President Michelle Bachelet (1926–2020)
Reckful
d. 2020
American professional esports player (1989–2020)
Lee Iacocca
d. 2019
American businessman (1924–2019)
Alan Longmuir
d. 2018
Scottish musician (1948–2018)
Smith Hart
d. 2017
American-Canadian professional wrestler (1948–2017)
Caroline Aherne
d. 2016
English actress, comedian and writer (1963–2016)
Thomas Harriot
d. 1621
English astronomer, mathematician, ethnographer and translator
On This Day in History
All 29 ›2024
A stampede during a religious event in Uttar Pradesh, India, leaves at least 121 people dead and 150 others injured.
2024 Hathras crowd crush
2013
A magnitude 6.1 earthquake strikes Aceh, Indonesia, killing at least 42 people and injuring 420 others.
2013 Aceh earthquake
2005
The 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.
Live 8
2000
Vicente 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, in the 2000 Mexican general election.
Vicente Fox
1997
The Bank of Thailand floats the baht, triggering the Asian financial crisis.
Thai baht
1994
USAir Flight 1016 crashes near Charlotte Douglas International Airport, killing 37 of the 57 people on board.
USAir Flight 1016
1993
A mob sets fire to the Hotel Madımak in Sivas, Turkey, where a Alevi cultural festival was taking place, killing 37 people.
Sivas
1990
In the 1990 Mecca tunnel tragedy, 1,400 Muslim pilgrims are suffocated to death and trampled upon in a pedestrian tunnel leading to the holy city of Mecca.
1990 Mecca tunnel tragedy