July 2 birthdays & history

Famous people born on July 2

• 1877Hermann Hesse, German-born Swiss poet, novelist, and painter, Nobel Prize laureate
• 1923Wisława Szymborska, Polish poet and translator, Nobel Prize laureate
• 1925Patrice Lumumba, Congolese politician, 1st Prime Minister of the Democratic Republic of the Congo
• 1862William Henry Bragg, English physicist, chemist, and mathematician, Nobel Prize laureate
• 1986Lindsay Lohan, American actress and singer
• 1906Hans Bethe, German-American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate
• 1990Margot Robbie, Australian actress and producer
• 1714Christoph Willibald Gluck, German composer
• 1947Larry David, American actor, comedian, producer, and screenwriter
• 1985Ashley Tisdale, American actress, singer, and producer

What happened on July 2

• 311Beginning of the papacy of Pope Miltiades.
• 1494Age of Discovery: The Treaty of Tordesillas is ratified by Spain.
• 1724On the Feast of the Visitation, Bach led the first performance of his Meine Seel erhebt den Herren, BWV 10, based on the German Magnificat.
• 1776American Revolution: The Continental Congress adopts the Lee Resolution severing ties with the Kingdom of Great Britain. The wording of the formal Declaration of Independence was agreed upon and publicly released two days later, on July 4.
• 1890The U.S. Congress passes the Sherman Antitrust Act.
• 1937Amelia Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan are last heard from over the Pacific Ocean and disappear while attempting to make the first equatorial round-the-world flight.
• 1990Singing Revolution: The Soviet economic blockade of Lithuania was lifted when the Lithuanian parliament agreed to suspend the effects of their act to re-establish Lithuania as a state.
• 1998Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets by J. K. Rowling, the second novel of the Harry Potter series, was published.
• 2000Vicente 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, in the 2000 Mexican general election.
• 2005The 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.
• 2013The International Astronomical Union announced that the fourth and fifth moons of Pluto to be discovered would be named Kerberos and Styx, respectively.

Also observed on July 2

• Flag Day (Curaçao)
• Palio di Provenzano (Siena, Italy)
• Police Day (Azerbaijan)