On the morning of July 2, 2002, a red, white, and silver balloon the height of a ten-story building drifted down from the sky above Queensland, Australia, and landed on the flat fa
On the evening of July 2, 1964, President Lyndon Baines Johnson walked into the East Room of the White House dressed in a black suit and tie and sat down at a wooden desk in the ce
At 8:43 in the morning on July 2, 1937, the United States Coast Guard cutter Itasca, stationed near the tiny coral atoll of Howland Island in the central Pacific Ocean, received th
At 9:30 in the morning on Saturday, July 2, 1881, President James A. Garfield walked through the ladies’ waiting room of the Baltimore and Potomac Railroad Station in Washing
On the afternoon of July 2, 1776, in the assembly room of the Pennsylvania State House in Philadelphia, twelve of the thirteen colonial delegations to the Second Continental Congre
As a summer thunderstorm broke over the flat expanse of Marston Moor, seven miles west of York, on the evening of July 2, 1644, the fate of the English Civil War in the north was d
At the stroke of midnight between June 30 and July 1, 1997, in the cavernous new wing of the Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre in Wan Chai, the last notes of God Save the
On July 1, 1867, the Dominion of Canada came into existence, not through revolution or war, but through a decade of political negotiation, constitutional compromise, and diplomatic
Before the sun had fully risen over the rolling farmlands of Adams County, Pennsylvania, on the morning of July 1, 1863, the course of the American Civil War began to shift. Confed
At precisely 7:30 in the morning on July 1, 1916, along a fifteen-mile front of chalky farmland in the Picardy region of northern France, whistles rang out and an estimated 120,000
