SomeFacts | July 2

On this day - July 2

626 — Li Shimin, the future Emperor Taizong of Tang, ambushes and ...

866 — Battle of Brissarthe: The Franks led by Robert the Strong are ...

1298 — Battle of Göllheim: Albert I of Habsburg defeats Adolf of ...

1494 — Age of Discovery: The Treaty of Tordesillas is ratified by ...

1582 — Battle of Yamazaki: Toyotomi Hideyoshi defeats Akechi ...

1644 — English Civil War: Battle of Marston Moor.

1645 — Wars of the Three Kingdoms: Battle of Alford.

1776 — American Revolution: The Continental Congress adopts the Lee ...

1823 — Bahia Independence Day: The Siege of Salvador ends Portuguese ...

1840 — A Ms 7.4 earthquake strikes present-day Turkey and Armenia; ...

1863 — American Civil War: On the second day of the Battle of ...

1881 — Charles J. Guiteau shoots and fatally wounds U.S. President ...

1890 — The U.S. Congress passes the Sherman Antitrust Act.

1921 — World War I: U.S. President Warren G. Harding signs the ...

1934 — The Night of the Long Knives ends after three days of killings.

1937 — Amelia Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan are last heard from ...

1964 — Civil rights movement: U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson signs ...

1966 — France conducts its first nuclear weapon test in the Pacific, ...

1976 — End of South Vietnam; Communist North Vietnam annexes the ...

1986 — Aeroflot Flight 2306 crashes while attempting an emergency ...

1986 — Rodrigo Rojas and Carmen Gloria Quintana are burnt alive ...

1990 — In the 1990 Mecca tunnel tragedy, 1,400 Muslim pilgrims are ...

1994 — USAir Flight 1016 crashes near Charlotte Douglas International ...

1997 — The Bank of Thailand floats the baht, triggering the Asian ...

2000 — Vicente Fox Quesada is elected the first President of México ...

2005 — The Live 8 benefit concerts takes place in the G8 states and ...

2013 — A magnitude 6.1 earthquake strikes Aceh, Indonesia, killing at ...

2024 — A stampede during a religious event in Uttar Pradesh, India, ...