On This Day July 2nd

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July 2nd is the one-hundred-eightieth-third day of the year, with 182 days remaining until the end of the year.

 

Events

1504 – Bogdan III the One-Eyed becomes Voivode of Moldavia.

1698 – Thomas Savery patents the first steam engine.

1776 – American Revolution: The Continental Congress adopted a resolution severing ties with the Kingdom of Great Britain, although the wording of the formal Declaration of Independence was not adopted until July 4.

1839 – Twenty miles off the coast of Cuba, 53 kidnapped Africans led by Joseph Cinqué mutiny and take over the slave ship Amistad.

1900 – An airship designed and constructed by Count Ferdinand von Zeppelin of Germany made its first flight on Lake Constance near Friedrichshafen.

1937 – Amelia Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan are last heard from over the Pacific Ocean while attempting to make the first equatorial round-the-world flight.

1962 – The first Walmart store, then known as Wal-Mart, opened for business in Rogers, Arkansas.

2005—The Live 8 benefit concerts occur in the G8 states and South Africa. More than 1,000 musicians perform, and the concerts are broadcast on 182 television networks and 2,000 radio networks.

 

Birthdays

1492 – Elizabeth Tudor, English daughter of Henry VII of England (d. 1495)

1724 – Friedrich Gottlieb Klopstock, German poet, and author (d. 1803)

1862 – William Henry Bragg, English physicist, chemist, and mathematician, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1942)

1904 – René Lacoste, French tennis player and businessman, created the polo shirt (d. 1996)

1916 – Ken Curtis, American actor and singer (d. 1991)

1922 – Pierre Cardin, Italian-French fashion designer (d. 2020)

1925 – Medgar Evers, American soldier and activist (d. 1963)

1937 – Richard Petty, American race car driver and sportscaster.

1989 – Alex Morgan, an American soccer player

 

Highlighted Holiday

I FORGOT DAY

This unusual holiday, I Forgot Day, was created by Gaye Anderson from DeMotte, Indiana. She started this holiday not as a lament for her forgetfulness but as a celebration of the freedom it brought. She was known in her core group and extended family to forget her daughter’s birthday every year and often her wedding anniversary. Instead of being bothered by her forgetfulness, she decided to embrace it and created this day to just relax and, well, forget. She also started celebrating her daughter’s birthday and wedding anniversary on July 2 every year.  The irony is that she does not remember when she started celebrating this day!

 

It’s a common experience to forget birthdays or special events or to have a list of things we've meant to do for ages but keep forgetting! Several factors contribute to this, such as stress, a sedentary lifestyle, an unhealthy diet, illness, anxiety, etc. In fact, one of the most unusual causes for forgetting is walking through a door. Some scientists believe that the brain perceives the world as a series of scenes or frames, and passing through a door can make the brain deem the information from the previous room largely unnecessary.

 

I Forgot Day encourages people to apologize and make up for all the events and occasions they might have forgotten. This is the day to put an end to forgetfulness and create an action plan that will help you not forget.

 

Holidays And Observance

Freedom From Fear of Speaking Day

I Forgot Day

Made in the USA Day

National Anisette Day

Second Half of the Year Day

Special Recreation for the Disabled Day

World Sports Journalists Day

World UFO Day