| Date | Weekday | Event |
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| July 2, 1566 | Saturday | French astrologer physician & prophet Nostradamus dies in Salon |
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| July 2, 1644 | Saturday | Battle of Marston Moor; Parliamentary forces defeat royalists. |
| July 2, 1644 | Saturday | William Gascoigne introducer of telescopic sights is killed at 24 |
| July 2, 1776 | Tuesday | Continental Congress passes resolution saying `these United Colonies Care & of right ought to be Free & Independent States' |
| July 2, 1858 | Friday | partial emancipation of Russian serfs. |
| July 2, 1881 | Saturday | Pres Garfield shot by Charles J Guiteau a disappointed office-seeker Garfield died the following September |
| July 2, 1890 | Wednesday | Sherman Antitrust Act prohibits industrial monopolies. |
| July 2, 1900 | Monday | 1st flight of a Zeppelin (the LZ-1). |
| July 2, 1906 | Monday | Yanks win by forfeit for their 1st time |
| July 2, 1926 | Friday | US Army Air Corps created |
| July 2, 1933 | Sunday | Carl Hubbell shutsout Cards 1-0 in 18 innings |
| July 2, 1937 | Friday | Amelia Earhart & Fred Noonan disappeared over the Pacific Ocean |
| July 2, 1941 | Wednesday | DiMaggio breaks Willie Keeler's 44 game hitting streak |
| July 2, 1955 | Saturday | Lawrence Welk Show premiers on ABC television |
| July 2, 1957 | Tuesday | 1st sub powered by liquid metal cooled reactor completed-The Seawolf |
| July 2, 1957 | Tuesday | 1st submarine designed to fire guided missiles launched Grayback |
| July 2, 1961 | Sunday | Maris hits his 29th & 30th of 61 homers |
| July 2, 1961 | Sunday | Ernest Hemingway shot himself to death in Ketchum Idaho |
| July 2, 1964 | Thursday | Pres Johnson signs the Civil Rights Act. |
| July 2, 1976 | Friday | Supreme Court ruled death penalty not inherently cruel or unusual |
| July 2, 1977 | Saturday | Sweden's Bjorn Borg won Wimbeldon men's singles over Jimmy Connors |
| July 2, 1978 | Sunday | Pitcher Ron Guidry sets Yankee record of 13-0 start |
| July 2, 1982 | Friday | Soyuz T-6 returns to Earth |
| July 2, 1985 | Tuesday | Proto launched on its way to Halley's Comet |
| July 2, 1986 | Wednesday | The Supreme Court upheld affirmative action in 2 rulings |
| July 2, 1987 | Thursday | Chorus Line Director Michael Bennet dead of aids at 44 |
| July 2, 1987 | Thursday | Accused Nazi Karl Linnas died of heart failure in Russia |