75661 | July 2 | Death | 2013 – Douglas Engelbart, American computer scientist, invented the computer mouse (b. 1925) |
75662 | July 2 | Death | 2013 – Fawzia Fuad of Egypt (b. 1921) |
75663 | July 2 | Death | 2013 – Armand Gaudreault, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1921) |
75664 | July 2 | Death | 2013 – Paul Lorieau, Canadian singer and optician (b. 1942) |
75665 | July 2 | Death | 2013 – Anthony Llewellyn, Welsh-American chemist, academic, and astronaut (b. 1933) |
75666 | July 2 | Death | 2014 – Emilio Álvarez Montalván, Nicaraguan ophthalmologist and politician (b. 1919) |
75667 | July 2 | Death | 2014 – Chad Brown, American poker player and actor (b. 1961) |
75668 | July 2 | Death | 2014 – Manuel Cardona, Spanish physicist and academic (b. 1934) |
75669 | July 2 | Death | 2014 – Mary Innes-Ker, Duchess of Roxburghe (b. 1915) |
75670 | July 2 | Death | 2014 – Harold W. Kuhn, American mathematician and academic (b. 1925) |
75671 | July 2 | Death | 2014 – Louis Zamperini, American runner and captain (b. 1917) |
75672 | July 2 | Death | 2015 – Slavko Avsenik, Slovenian singer-songwriter and accordion player (b. 1929) |
75673 | July 2 | Death | 2015 – Ronald Davison, New Zealand lawyer and judge, 10th Chief Justice of New Zealand (b. 1920) |
75674 | July 2 | Death | 2015 – Charlie Sanders, American football player and sportscaster (b. 1946) |
75675 | July 2 | Death | 2015 – Jim Weaver, American football player and coach (b. 1945) |
75676 | July 2 | Death | 2015 – Jacobo Zabludovsky, Mexican journalist (b. 1928) |
75677 | July 2 | Holiday and observance | Christian feast day:Aberoh and Atom (Coptic Church)Feast of the Visitation (Anglicanism Levoča at Mariánska hora)MonegundisOtto of BambergOudoceusMartinian and ProcessusJuly 2 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics) |
75678 | July 2 | Holiday and observance | Flag Day (Curaçao) |
75679 | July 2 | Holiday and observance | Independence Day (Bahia) |
75680 | July 2 | Holiday and observance | Palio di Provenzano (Siena) |
75681 | July 2 | Holiday and observance | Police Day (Azerbaijan) |
75682 | July 2 | Holiday and observance | World UFO Day |
75683 | July 3 | Event | 324 – Battle of Adrianople: Constantine I defeats Licinius, who flees to Byzantium. |
75684 | July 3 | Event | 987 – Hugh Capet is crowned King of France, the first of the Capetian dynasty that would rule France until the French Revolution in 1792. |
75685 | July 3 | Event | 1035 – William the Conqueror becomes the Duke of Normandy, reigns until 1087. |
75686 | July 3 | Event | 1608 – Québec City is founded by Samuel de Champlain. |
75687 | July 3 | Event | 1754 – French and Indian War: George Washington surrenders Fort Necessity to French forces. |
75688 | July 3 | Event | 1767 – Pitcairn Island is discovered by Midshipman Robert Pitcairn on an expeditionary voyage commanded by Philip Carteret. |
75689 | July 3 | Event | 1767 – Norway's oldest newspaper still in print, Adresseavisen, is founded and the first edition is published. |
75690 | July 3 | Event | 1775 – American Revolutionary War: George Washington takes command of the Continental Army at Cambridge, Massachusetts. |