What Happened on Jul 2

English Pilgrims Negotiate Exclusive Trading Pact with Massasoit

As promised by Massasoit, numerous Native Americans arrived at Plymouth throughout the middle of 1621 with pledges of peace. On July 2, a party of... Read more

Battle of Ticonderoga

The 1777 Battle of Ticonderoga occurred between 2 and 6 July 1777 at Fort Ticonderoga, near the southern end of Lake Champlain in the state of New... Read more

Méduse Disaster

In 1816, the French naval ship The Medusa set out to repossess the colony of Senegal. Commanded by an incompetent captain, she ran aground off the... Read more

Battle of Hoke's Run - Robert Patterson Defeats Jackson

The Battle of Hoke's Run, also known as the Battle of Falling Waters or Hainesville, took place on July 2, 1861, in Berkeley County, Virginia (now... Read more

Reconfigured Morrill Land-Grant Colleges Act Signed into Law

For fifteen years prior to the first introduction of the bill in 1857, there was a political movement calling for the creation of agriculture... Read more

Battle Of Gettysburg - Day 2

On July 2, 1863, the lines of the Battle of Gettysburg, now in its second day, were drawn in two sweeping parallel arcs. The Confederate and Union... Read more

Battle of Hunterstown

The Battle of Hunterstown was a minor cavalry engagement in Adams County, Pennsylvania, on July 2, 1863, during the Gettysburg Campaign of the... Read more

The Wade-Davis Bill Passes Both Houses of Congress

The Wade-Davis Bill of 1864 was a program proposed for the Reconstruction of the South written by two Radical Republicans, Senator Benjamin Wade of... Read more

President James A. Garfield Assassinated

Less than four months after his inauguration, President Garfield arrived at the Washington railroad depot on July 2, 1881, to catch a train for a... Read more

Amelia Earhart disappears near Howland Island

On July 2, 1937 (midnight GMT) Earhart and Noonan took off from Lae in the heavily loaded Electra. Their intended destination was Howland Island, a... Read more

"Sergeant York" Is Released

Sergeant York is a 1941 biographical film about the life of Alvin York, the most-decorated American soldier of World War I. It was directed by... Read more

"The Fugitive" Is Released

The Fugitive is a 1947 American-Mexican drama film starring Henry Fonda and directed by John Ford, based on the novel The Power and the Glory by... Read more

Ernest Hemingway Commits Suicide

Three months later, at home in Ketchum, Mary "found Hemingway holding a shotgun". When his personal physician Dr. Saviers arrived, he was sedated... Read more

President Johnson Signs Civil Rights Act of 1964 into Law

The Civil Rights Act of 1964 was a landmark piece of legislation in the United States that outlawed racial segregation in schools, public places,... Read more

"Shaft" Is Released

Shaft is a 1971 American blaxploitation film directed by Gordon Parks and released by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. An action film with elements of film... Read more

Big Trouble in Little China released

Big Trouble in Little China (also known as John Carpenter's Big Trouble in Little China) is a 1986 American martial arts film directed by John... Read more

The Great Mouse Detective is released

The Great Mouse Detective is a 1986 animated feature produced by Walt Disney Feature Animation, and was originally released to movie theaters on... Read more

Alice Cooper releases Hey Stoopid

Hey Stoopid is the 19th studio album by heavy metal singer and shock rock-musician Alice Cooper. It was released on July 2, 1991 with guest... Read more

Independence Day (film) released

Independence Day (also known by its promotional abbreviation ID4) is a 1996 science fiction film about a hostile alien invasion of Earth, focusing... Read more

Nas Releases It Was Written

Following the limited sales success of Illmatic, Nas chose to focus his efforts in a more mainstream direction. The album proved to be Nas’s most... Read more

Men In Black (film) released

Men in Black is a 1997 science fiction comedy action film directed by Barry Sonnenfeld, starring Tommy Lee Jones, Will Smith and Vincent D'Onofrio.... Read more

Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets Released in the UK

Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, is the second novel in the Harry Potter series written by J. K. Rowling. It continues the story of Harry... Read more

Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines released

Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines, commonly abbreviated as T3, is a 2003 action film directed by Jonathan Mostow and starring Arnold... Read more

Lance Armstrong wins the 92nd Tour de France

The 2005 Tour de France was the 92nd Tour de France, taking place from July 2 to July 24, 2005. It comprised 21 stages over 3607 km, the winner's... Read more

Live 8 concerts

Live 8 was a string of benefit concerts that took place on 2 July 2005, in the G8 states and in South Africa. They were timed to precede the G8... Read more