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July 2: Day Of The Week

July 2, 2013 is the 183^rd day of the year 2013 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 182 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Tuesday.

If you are trying to learn Japanese then this day of the week in Japanese is Kayōbi.

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Cancer is the zodiac sign of a person born on this day. Ruby is the modern birthstone for this month. Ruby is the mystical birthstone from Tibetan origin that dates back over a thousand years.

July 2: This Day In History

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.

July 2 Historical Events

• 1494 –
  The Treaty of Tordesillas is ratified by Spain.
• 1555 –
  The Ottoman Admiral Turgut Reis sacks the Italian city of Paola.
• 1613 –
  The first English expedition from Massachusetts against Acadia led by Samuel Argall takes place.
• 1679 –
  Europeans first visit Minnesota and see headwaters of Mississippi in an expedition led by Daniel Greysolon de Du Luth.
• 1839 –
  Twenty miles off the coast of Cuba, 53 rebelling African slaves led by Joseph Cinqué take over the slave ship Amistad.
• 1871 –
  Victor Emmanuel II of Italy enters Rome after having conquered it from the Papal States.
• 1934 –
  The Night of the Long Knives ends with the death of Ernst Röhm.
• 1966 –
  The French military explodes a nuclear test bomb codenamed Aldébaran in Mururoa, their first nuclear test in the Pacific.
• 2000 –
  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.
• 2002 –
  Steve Fossett becomes the first person to fly solo around the world nonstop in a balloon.

Who were born on July 2?

• 1492 –
  Elizabeth Tudor, English princess (d. 1495)
• 1884 –
  Alfons Maria Jakob, German neurologist (d. 1931)
• 1916 –
  Ken Curtis, American actor and singer (d. 1991)
• 1919 –
  Jean Craighead George, American writer
• 1932 –
  Dave Thomas, American fast food entrepreneur (Wendy’s) (d. 2002)
• 1947 –
  Larry David, American television producer
• 1949 –
  Hanno Pöschl, Austrian actor
• 1970 –
  Yancy Butler, American actress
• 1985 –
  Chad Henne, American football player
• 1987 –
  Ruslana Korshunova, Kazakh model (d. 2008)

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