დიოგენე 2020

Here are some interesting facts ih history happened on 2 July.

1. French astrologer physician & prophet Nostradamus dies in Salon
2. Battle of Marston Moor; Parliamentary forces defeat royalists.
3. William Gascoigne introducer of telescopic sights is killed at 24
4. Continental Congress passes resolution saying `these United Colonies Care & of right ought to be Free & Independent States'
5. partial emancipation of Russian serfs.
6. Pres Garfield shot by Charles J Guiteau a disappointed office-seeker Garfield died the following September
7. Sherman Antitrust Act prohibits industrial monopolies.
8. 1st flight of a Zeppelin (the LZ-1).
9. Yanks win by forfeit for their 1st time
10. US Army Air Corps created
11. Carl Hubbell shutsout Cards 1-0 in 18 innings
12. Amelia Earhart & Fred Noonan disappeared over the Pacific Ocean
13. DiMaggio breaks Willie Keeler's 44 game hitting streak
14. Lawrence Welk Show premiers on ABC television
15. 1st sub powered by liquid metal cooled reactor completed-The Seawolf
16. 1st submarine designed to fire guided missiles launched Grayback
17. Maris hits his 29th & 30th of 61 homers
18. Ernest Hemingway shot himself to death in Ketchum Idaho
19. Pres Johnson signs the Civil Rights Act.
20. Supreme Court ruled death penalty not inherently cruel or unusual
21. Sweden's Bjorn Borg won Wimbeldon men's singles over Jimmy Connors
22. Pitcher Ron Guidry sets Yankee record of 13-0 start
23. Soyuz T-6 returns to Earth
24. Proto launched on its way to Halley's Comet
25. The Supreme Court upheld affirmative action in 2 rulings
26. Chorus Line Director Michael Bennet dead of aids at 44
27. Accused Nazi Karl Linnas died of heart failure in Russia

These famous people were born on 2 July.

1. 0419 - Valentinian III, Roman emperor (425-55).
2. 1489 - Thomas Cranmer, English archbishop, reformer, martyr.
3. 1821 - Sir Charles Tupper, (C), 6th Canadian prime minister (1896).
4. 1877 - Hermann Hesse, Swiss novelist, poet (Steppenwolf) (Nobel 1946).
5. 1903 - Olav V, king of Norway (1957-, ).
6. 1903 - Sir Alex Douglas-Home, (C), British prime minister (1963-64).
7. 1906 - Hans Bethe, physicist (Nobel 1967), peace worker.
8. 1908 - Thurgood Marshall, 1st black Supreme Court justice.
9. 1922 - Dan Rowan, comedian (Laugh In).
10. 1927 - Brock Peters, Actor.
11. 1931 - Emelda Marcos, Former Phillipine leader's wife
12. 1935 - Kaye Stevens, in Pitts
13. 1937 - Richard Petty, auto race driver.
14. 1937 - Polly Holliday, (Alice)
15. 1940 - Georgi Ivan Ivanov, 1st Bulgarian space traveler (Soyuz 33).
16. 1947 - Luci Baines Johnson Nugent Turpin, Daughter of Pres LBJ
17. 1951 - Cheryl Ladd, in SD
18. 1961 - Jimmy McNichol, Actor