2 July
Notable Births
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)
Madison Chock
b. 1992
American ice dancer (born 1992)
Jānis Timma
b. 1992
Latvian basketball player (1992–2024)
Kayla Harrison
b. 1990
American Olympic judoka and mixed martial artist (born 1990)
Merritt Mathias
b. 1990
American soccer player (born 1990)
Margot Robbie
b. 1990
Australian actress and producer (born 1990)
Danny Rose (footballer, born 1990)
b. 1990
English footballer (born 1990)
Bill Tupou
b. 1990
Tonga international rugby league footballer (born 1990)
Nadezhda Grishaeva
b. 1989
Russian basketball player (born 1989)
Alex Morgan
b. 1989
American soccer player (born 1989)
Lee Chung-yong
b. 1988
South Korean footballer (born 1988)
Esteban Granero
b. 1987
Spanish footballer (born 1987)
Brett Cecil
b. 1986
American baseball player (born 1986)
Joe Thornton
b. 1979
Canadian ice hockey player (born 1979)
Thurgood Marshall
b. 1908
US Supreme Court justice from 1967 to 1991
Notable Deaths
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)
Michael Cimino
d. 2016
American filmmaker (1939–2016)
Patrick Manning
d. 2016
Prime Minister of Trinidad and Tobago (1991–1995, 2001–2010)
Elie Wiesel
d. 2016
American writer and activist (1928–2016)
Charlie Sanders
d. 2015
American football player (1946–2015)
Jim Weaver (athletic director)
d. 2015
American football player and coach, college athletics administrator (1945–2015)
Jacobo Zabludovsky
d. 2015
Mexican journalist (1928–2015)
Emilio Álvarez Montalván
d. 2014
Nicaraguan ophthalmologist and Foreign Minister (1919–2014)
Manuel Cardona
d. 2014
Spanish physicist (1934–2014)
Harold W. Kuhn
d. 2014
American game theorist (1925–2014)
Louis Zamperini
d. 2014
American athlete and army officer (1917–2014)
Anthony G. Bosco
d. 2013
American prelate (1927–2013)
Douglas Engelbart
d. 2013
American engineer and inventor (1925–2013)
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
1986
Rodrigo Rojas and Carmen Gloria Quintana are burnt alive during a street demonstration against the dictatorship of General Augusto Pinochet in Chile in the Quemados case.
Rodrigo Rojas de Negri
1986
Aeroflot Flight 2306 crashes while attempting an emergency landing at Syktyvkar Airport in Syktyvkar, in present-day Komi Republic, Russia, killing 54 people.
Aeroflot Flight 2306
1976
End of South Vietnam; Communist North Vietnam annexes the former South Vietnam to form the unified Socialist Republic of Vietnam.
Provisional Revolutionary Government of the Republic of South Vietnam
1966
France conducts its first nuclear weapon test in the Pacific, on Moruroa Atoll.
1966–70 French nuclear tests
1964
Civil rights movement: U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson signs the Civil Rights Act of 1964 meant to prohibit segregation in public places.
Civil rights movement
1937
Amelia Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan are last heard from over the Pacific Ocean and disappear while attempting to make the first equatorial round-the-world flight.
Amelia Earhart
1934
The Night of the Long Knives ends after three days of killings.
Night of the Long Knives
1921
World War I: U.S. President Warren G. Harding signs the Knox–Porter Resolution formally ending the war between the United States and Germany.
World War I
1890
The U.S. Congress passes the Sherman Antitrust Act.
United States Congress
1881
Charles J. Guiteau shoots and fatally wounds U.S. President James A. Garfield (who will die of complications from his wounds on September 19).
Charles J. Guiteau
1863
American Civil War: On the second day of the Battle of Gettysburg - the Battle of Little Round Top takes place and results in a Union victory after the Confederate troops unsuccessfully try to assault the Union left flank.
American Civil War
1840
A Ms 7.4 earthquake strikes present-day Turkey and Armenia; combined with the effects of an eruption on Mount Ararat, kills 10,000 people.
1840 Ararat earthquake