Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/July 2
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This is a list of selected July 2 anniversaries that appears on the "On this day" section of the Main Page. To suggest a new item, in most cases you can be bold and edit this page. Please read the selected anniversaries guidelines before making your edit. However, if your addition may be controversial, or on a day that is or soon will be on the Main Page, please post your suggestion on the talk page instead.
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- 1644 – The Battle of Marston Moor, one of the decisive encounters of the English Civil War, was fought near York.
- 1839 – 53 African slaves mutinied on the slave ship La Amistad off the coast of Cuba.
- 1900 – First Zeppelin flight (pictured) occurred over Lake Constance near Friedrichshafen, Germany.
- 1937 – Amelia Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan disappeared over the Pacific Ocean during an attempt to make a circumnavigational flight.
- 1976 – North and South Vietnam united under communist rule to form the Socialist Republic of Vietnam.
- 1997 – The Thai baht rapidly lost half of its value, marking the beginning of the 1997 East Asian financial crisis.
