|
Reference Find out which famous people share the same birthday as you |
|
|||||||
|
July 2nd July 2nd is the 183rd day of the year (184th day in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 182 days remaining until the end of the year. On this page, we have placed information about July 2nd, including famous people born on, historical events that occurred on, holidays and observances that fall on, and astrological connections of, this day. Famous People born on July 2nd 1862 Sir William Henry Bragg (physicist) 1904 René Lacoste (tennis player, businessman, creator of the polo shirt) 1908 Thurgood Marshall (first black US Supreme Court Justice)  1929 Imelda Marcos (Filipino politician)  1930 Carlos Menem (Argentine politician)  1939 John H. Sununu (US politician, White House Chief of Staff 1989-1991) 1940 Kenneth Clarke (British politician) 1946 Ron Silver (actor) 1956 Jerry Hall (model, actress)  1970 Yancy Butler (actress) 1970 Monie Love (rapper) 1973 Peter Kay (comedian, actor, writer, director) 1985 Ashley Tisdale (actress) 1986 Lindsay Lohan (actress) 1990 Margot Robbie (actress) July 2nd in History 1644 Parliamentarians and their Scottish Covenanter allies decisively defeat Royalists in the English Civil War's Battle of Marston Moor. 1698 Thomas Savery patents the first commercial steam engine (used as a water pump). 1777 Vermont is the first US territory to abolish slavery.  1839 African slaves rebel and take over the slave ship Amistad. 1863 Second day of the Battle of Gettysburg. 1881 US President James Garfield is shot (he dies as a result on September 19th).  1890 US Congress passes the Sherman Anti-Trust Act. 1897 Guglielmo Marconi is granted a patent on radio in London.  1937 Amelia Earhart disappears in a flight over the Pacific.  1962 First Walmart (then known as "Wal-Mart") store opens for business. 1964 US President Lyndon B. Johnson signs the Civil Rights Act of 1964 which outlaws most major forms of discrimination against racial, ethnic, national, and religious minorities, and women.  1976 After the Communist military victory of the previous year, North and South Vietnam merge to form the Socialist Republic of Vietnam. 2002 Steve Fossett is the first person to fly solo non-stop around the world in a balloon. July 2nd is also International Joke Day Astrology People born on July 2nd are Cancer  Cancer Information: Cancer Links:
Disclaimer: Birth dates and other information are thought to be correct, but there is a possibility that some entries may contain inadvert errors. If you spot such an error, please contact us. Sorry, we can not accept suggestions for additional entries at this time, due to the huge backlog of suggestions we have already received.
|
| Contact Us About/Terms of Use Privacy Advertising/Endorsements Disclosures †Disclosure: Advertising Link(s): Our company may receive a payment if you purchase a product/service after following this link. Disclosure: Our company's websites' content (including this website's content) includes advertisements for our own company's websites, products, and services, and for other organization's websites, products, and services. In the case of links to other organization's websites, our company may receive a payment, (1) if you purchase products or services, or (2) if you sign-up for third party offers, after following links from this website. Unless specifically otherwise stated, information about other organization's products and services, is based on information provided by that organization, the product/service vendor, and/or publicly available information - and should not be taken to mean that we have used the product/service in question. Additionally, our company's websites contain some adverts which we are paid to display, but whose content is not selected by us, such as Google AdSense ads. For more detailed information, please see Advertising/Endorsements Disclosures Our sites use cookies, some of which may already be set on your computer. Use of our site constitutes consent for this. For details, please see Privacy. Click privacy for information about our company's privacy, data collection and data retention policies, and your rights. Copyright © 2000-2023, Answers 2000 Limited CERTAIN CONTENT THAT APPEARS ON THIS SITE COMES FROM AMAZON SERVICES LLC. THIS CONTENT IS PROVIDED 'AS IS' AND IS SUBJECT TO CHANGE OR REMOVAL AT ANY TIME. In Association With Amazon.com Answers 2000 Limited is a participant in the Amazon Services LLC Associates Program, an affiliate advertising program designed to provide a means for sites to earn advertising fees by advertising and linking to Amazon.com. In Association With Amazon.co.uk 
Answers 2000 Limited is a participant in the Amazon EU Associates Programme, an affiliate advertising programme designed to provide a means for sites to earn advertising fees by advertising and linking to Amazon.co.uk. As an Amazon Associate, our company earns from qualifying purchases. Amazon, the Amazon logo, Endless, and the Endless logo are trademarks of Amazon.com, Inc. or its affiliates. |
|