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Day Of The Week: July 2
July 2, 2025 is the 183rd day of the year 2025 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 182 days remaining until the end of 2025. The day of the week is Wednesday.
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Day In History: July 2
This day is the midpoint of a common year because there are 182 days before and 182 days after (median of the year) in common years, and 183 before and 182 after in leap years. The exact time in the middle of the year is at noon, or 12:00 p.m. In the UK and other countries that use “Summer Time” the actual exact time of the mid point in a common year is at 1:00 p.m. this is when 182 days and 12 hours have elapsed and there are 182 days and 12 hours remaining. This is due to Summer Time having advanced the time by one hour. It falls on the same day of the week as New Year’s Day in common years.
Historical Events: July 2
- 963 –The imperial army proclaims Nicephorus Phocas Emperor of the Romans on the plains outside Cappadocian Caesarea.
- 1561 –Menas, Emperor of Ethiopia, defeats a revolt in Emfraz.
- 1613 –The first English expedition from Massachusetts against Acadia led by Samuel Argall takes place.
- 1644 –English Civil War: Battle of Marston Moor.
- 1679 –Europeans first visit Minnesota and see headwaters of Mississippi in an expedition led by Daniel Greysolon de Du Luth.
- 1698 –Thomas Savery patents the first steam engine.
- 1853 –The Russian Army crossed the Pruth river into the Danubian Principalities, Moldavia and Wallachia—providing the spark that set off the Crimean War.
- 1917 –The East St. Louis Riots end.
- 1986 –Rodrigo Rojas and Carmen Gloria Quintana where burnt alive during a street demonstration against the dictatorship of General Augusto Pinochet in Chile.
- 1993 –37 participants in an Alevi cultural and literary festival are killed when a mob of demonstrators set fire to their hotel in Sivas during a violent protest.
Who were born on July 2?
- 1904 –René Lacoste, French tennis player and businessman (d. 1996)
- 1916 –Ken Curtis, American actor and singer (d. 1991)
- 1953 –Tony Armas, Venezuelan baseball player
- 1964 –Charles Robinson, American wrestling referee
- 1975 –Éric Dazé, Canadian ice hockey player
- 1981 –Aaron Voros, Canadian hockey player
- 1985 –Jurgen Roelandts, Belgian cyclist
- 1987 –Ruslana Korshunova, Kazakh model (d. 2008)
- 1989 –Alex Morgan, American soccer player
- 1990 –Danny Rose, English footballer
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