History Events on July 02

English Civil War: Battle of Marston Moor.

#English_Civil_War

The Treaty of Tordesillas is ratified by Spain.

#Treaty_of_Tordesillas

Suicide bombing of Karrada in Baghdad kills at least 341 people.

#2016_Karrada_bombing

The imperial army proclaims Nikephoros II Phokas Emperor of the Romans on the plains outside Cappadocian Caesarea.

#Byzantine_army

The Battle of Göllheim is fought between Albert I of Habsburg and Adolf of Nassau-Weilburg.

#Battle_of_Göllheim

Emperor Valentinian III begins his reign over the Western Roman Empire. His mother Galla Placidia ends her regency, but continues to exercise political influence at the court in Rome.

#Valentinian_III

The first Walmart store, then known as Wal-Mart, opens for business in Rogers, Arkansas.

#Walmart

End of South Vietnam; Communist North Vietnam annexes the former South Vietnam to form the unified Socialist Republic of Vietnam.

#Provisional_Revolutionary_Government_of_the_Republic_of_South_Vietnam

Battle of Yamazaki: Toyotomi Hideyoshi defeats Akechi Mitsuhide.

#Battle_of_Yamazaki

The International Astronomical Union names Pluto's fourth and fifth moons, Kerberos and Styx.

#International_Astronomical_Union

Battle of Alford: Wars of the Three Kingdoms.

#Battle_of_Alford

Bahia Independence Day: The end of Portuguese rule in Brazil, with the final defeat of the Portuguese crown loyalists in the province of Bahia.

#Bahia

Thomas Savery patents the first steam engine.

#Thomas_Savery

American Revolution: The Continental Congress adopts a resolution severing ties with the Kingdom of Great Britain although the wording of the formal Declaration of Independence is not published until July 4.

#American_Revolution

Amelia Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan are last heard from over the Pacific Ocean while attempting to make the first equatorial round-the-world flight.

#Amelia_Earhart

Colombian conflict: Íngrid Betancourt, a member of the Chamber of Representatives of Colombia, is released from captivity after being held for six and a half years by FARC.

#Colombian_conflict

Jean Sibelius' Finlandia receives its première performance in Helsinki with the Helsinki Philharmonic Society conducted by Robert Kajanus.

#Jean_Sibelius

Civil rights movement: U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson signs the Civil Rights Act of 1964 meant to prohibit segregation in public places.

#Civil_rights_movement

Victor Emmanuel II of Italy enters Rome after having conquered it from the Papal States.

#Victor_Emmanuel_II_of_Italy

The first Zeppelin flight takes place on Lake Constance near Friedrichshafen, Germany.

#Zeppelin

The Night of the Long Knives ends with the death of Ernst Röhm.

#Night_of_the_Long_Knives

British-Italian engineer Guglielmo Marconi obtains a patent for radio in London.

#Guglielmo_Marconi

A magnitude 6.1 earthquake strikes Aceh, Indonesia, killing at least 42 people and injuring 420 others.

#2013_Aceh_earthquake

The first English expedition (from Virginia) against Acadia led by Samuel Argall takes place.

#Virginia

The French frigate Méduse struck the Bank of Arguin and 151 people on board had to be evacuated on an improvised raft, a case immortalised by Géricault's painting The Raft of the Medusa.

#French_frigate_Méduse_(1810)

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

#United_States_Congress

Indian independence leader Subhas Chandra Bose is arrested and detained in Calcutta.

#Subhas_Chandra_Bose

The SS Arandora Star is sunk by U-47 in the North Atlantic with the loss of over 800 lives, mostly civilians.

#SS_Arandora_Star

Steve Fossett becomes the first person to fly solo around the world nonstop in a balloon.

#Steve_Fossett

Twenty miles off the coast of Cuba, 53 rebelling African slaves led by Joseph Cinqué take over the slave ship Amistad.

#Cuba

Thirty-five slaves are hanged in South Carolina, including Denmark Vesey, after being accused of organizing a slave rebellion.

#South_Carolina

King Henry the Fowler dies in his royal palace in Memleben. He is succeeded by his son Otto I, who becomes the ruler of East Francia.

#Henry_the_Fowler

The Russian Army crossed the Pruth river into the Danubian Principalities, Moldavia and Wallachia—providing the spark that set off the Crimean War.

#Danubian_Principalities

Charles J. Guiteau shoots and fatally wounds U.S. President James Garfield (who would die of complications from his wounds on September 19).

#Charles_J._Guiteau

Bogdan III the One-Eyed becomes Voivode of Moldavia.

#Bogdan_III_the_One-Eyed

World War I: U.S. President Warren G. Harding signs the Knox-Porter Resolution formally ending the war between the United States and Germany.

#World_War_I

In China, Emperor Zhongzong of Tang inters the bodies of relatives in the Qianling Mausoleum, located on Mount Liang outside Chang'an.

#China

The French military explodes a nuclear test bomb code-named Aldébaran in Moruroa, their first nuclear test in the Pacific.

#Moruroa

The South Kivu tank truck explosion in the Democratic Republic of the Congo kills at least 230 people.

The Live 8 benefit concerts takes place in the G8 states and in South Africa. More than 1,000 musicians perform and are broadcast on 182 television networks and 2,000 radio networks.

The AbioCor self-contained artificial heart is first implanted.

Vicente Fox Quesada is elected the first President of México from an opposition party, the Partido Acción Nacional, after more than 70 years of continuous rule by the Partido Revolucionario Institucional.

The Bank of Thailand floats the baht, triggering the Asian financial crisis.

USAir Flight 1016 crashes near Charlotte Douglas International Airport, killing 37 of the 57 people on board.

In the 1990 Mecca tunnel tragedy, 1,400 Muslim pilgrims, were suffocated to death and trampled upon, in a pedestrian tunnel leading to the holy city of Mecca.

Rodrigo Rojas and Carmen Gloria Quintana are burnt alive during a street demonstration against the dictatorship of General Augusto Pinochet in Chile.

Menas, emperor of Ethiopia, defeats a revolt in Emfraz.

Ottoman Admiral Turgut Reis sacks the Italian city of Paola.

Battle of Brissarthe: The Franks led by Robert the Strong are defeated by a joint Breton-Viking army.

Li Shimin, the future Emperor Taizong of Tang, ambushes and kills his rival brothers Li Yuanji and Li Jiancheng in the Xuanwu Gate Incident.