July 2nd, 1742

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Born on July 2nd, 1742 – Weekday, Age & Zodiac
Age in days, weeks and months
What happened on July 2nd?
Birthdays of famous people
Public holidays on July 2nd
Date as a Roman numeral / digit
Calendar (July 1742)

Born on July 2nd, 1742

Weekday

Monday

July 2nd, 1742 was a Monday.

Age

281

People born on July 2nd, 1742 will turn 282 this year (2024), in exactly 65 days .

Zodiac

♋

Cancer (The Crab)

June 22nd, 1742 - July 22nd, 1742

Age in days, weeks and months
Wow, over 102,000 days old!

Why not celebrate an alternative birthday? In 66 days, exactly on July 3rd, 2024, people who were born on July 2nd, 1742 will be 103,000 days old!

102,934 Days

14,704 Weeks

3,381 Months

... in seconds, minutes and hours

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What happened on July 2nd?

July 2nd, 2013

The International Astronomical Union announced that the fourth and fifth moons of Pluto to be discovered would be named Kerberos and Styx, respectively.

July 2nd, 2008

Israeli–Palestinian conflict: An Arab man rammed a loader into traffic in Jerusalem, killing three people and injuring 40 others (damage pictured).

July 2nd, 1976

More than a year after the end of the Vietnam War, North and South Vietnam officially merged under communist rule to form the Socialist Republic of Vietnam.

July 2nd, 1964

U.S. president Lyndon B. Johnson signed the Civil Rights Act into law, outlawing segregation in schools, at the workplace, and other facilities that served the general public.

July 2nd, 1941

A German SS unit arrived in Vilnius, Lithuania, and began the systematic execution of up to 100,000 people over the next three years.

July 2nd, 1917

Amidst weeks of race riots in East St. Louis, Illinois, white residents burned sections of the city and shot black inhabitants as they escaped the flames.

July 2nd, 1890

The U.S. Congress passed the Sherman Antitrust Act, the first United States government action to limit monopolies.

July 2nd, 1881

U.S. president James A. Garfield was fatally shot at the Baltimore and Potomac Railroad station in Washington, D.C.

July 2nd, 1816

The French frigate Méduse ran aground off the coast of present-day Mauritania, with the survivors escaping on a makeshift raft, depicted in Théodore Géricault's painting The Raft of the Medusa (pictured).

July 2nd, 1644

First English Civil War: The combined forces of Scottish Covenanters and English Parliamentarians defeated Royalist troops at the Battle of Marston Moor.

July 2nd, 0706

The bodies of Emperor Gaozong of Tang and Empress Wu Zetian were interred in the Qianling Mausoleum.

July 2nd, 0626

During the Xuanwu Gate Incident, Prince Li Shimin led his forces to assassinate his rival brothers in a coup for the imperial throne of the Tang dynasty.

July 2nd, 2008

Colombian conflict: Íngrid Betancourt, a member of the Chamber of Representatives of Colombia, is released from captivity after being held for six and a half years by FARC.

July 2nd, 2005

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

July 2nd, 2002

Steve Fossett becomes the first person to fly solo around the world nonstop in a balloon.

Birthdays
... of famous people, actors, celebrities and stars on July 2nd

Born on July 2nd, 1742

Franz Wenzel, Graf von Kaunitz-Rietberg

Austrian general

*July 2nd, 1742, Vienna †December 19th, 1825, Vienna

Same Day
Who's birthday is on July 2nd?

Saweetie

American rapper and singer

*July 2nd, 1993, Hayward

Arp Schnitger

German organ builder

*July 2nd, 1648, Brake †July 28th, 1719, Neuenfelde

Felipe Araújo

Brazilian singer-songwriter

*July 2nd, 1995, Goiânia

Norbert Röttgen

German politician (CDU)

*July 2nd, 1965, Meckenheim

Hermann Hesse

Nobel Prize winning German-Swiss poet, novelist and painter (1877–1962)

*July 2nd, 1877, Calw †August 9th, 1962, Montagnola

Inga Marte Thorkildsen

Norwegian politician

*July 2nd, 1976, Oslo

Hermann Bengtson

German historian

*July 2nd, 1909, Ratzeburg †November 2nd, 1989, Munich

Kristian Eidnes Andersen

Danish composer

*July 2nd, 1966, Faxe

Christoph Willibald von Gluck

German opera composer (1714–1787)

*July 2nd, 1714, Erasbach †November 15th, 1787, Vienna

Imelda Marcos

Philippine former First Lady (born 1929)

*July 2nd, 1929, Manila

William Henry Bragg

British scientist (1862–1942)

*July 2nd, 1862, Westward †March 12th, 1942, London

Margot Robbie

Australian actress

*July 2nd, 1990, Dalby

Wisława Szymborska

Polish poet, Nobel Prize winner

*July 2nd, 1923, Kórnik †February 1st, 2012, Kraków

Hans Bethe

German-American nuclear physicist

*July 2nd, 1906, Strasbourg †March 6th, 2005, Ithaca

Patrice Lumumba

Congolese politician and independence leader (1925–1961)

*July 2nd, 1925, Katakokombe †January 17th, 1961, Lubumbashi

Lindsay Lohan

American actress and singer (born 1986)

*July 2nd, 1986, The Bronx

Susanna Jakobine Betz

German singer

*July 2nd, 1741, Augsburg †March 28th, 1799, Augsburg

René Lacoste

French tennis player

*July 2nd, 1904, Paris †October 12th, 1996, Saint-Jean-de-Luz

Brock Peters

American actor (1927–2005)

*July 2nd, 1928, New York City †August 23rd, 2005, Los Angeles

Ron Silver

American actor and activist (1946-2009)

*July 2nd, 1946, Manhattan †March 15th, 2009, Manhattan

Same year
Born in 1742

Carl Wilhelm Scheele

Swedish German chemist who discovered oxygen

*December 9th, 1742, Stralsund †May 21st, 1786, Köping

Gebhard Leberecht von Blücher

Prussian field marshal (1742–1819)

*December 16th, 1742, Rostock †September 12th, 1819, Krobielowice

Henry Dundas, 1st Viscount Melville

Scottish advocate and politician (1742-1811)

*April 28th, 1742, Dalkeith †May 28th, 1811, Edinburgh

Jean Baptiste Treilhard

French judge and diplomat (1742-1810)

*January 3rd, 1742, Brive-la-Gaillarde †December 5th, 1810, Paris

Pius VII

Head of the Catholic Church, ruler of the Papal States from 1800 to 1823

*August 14th, 1742, Cesena †August 20th, 1823, Rome

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

German scientist, satirist

*July 1st, 1742, Ober-Ramstadt †February 24th, 1799, Göttingen

Jean Cesar Godeffroy

Merchant from Hamburg (1742-1818)

*October 16th, 1742, Hamburg †May 7th, 1818, Hamburg

Jean-Louis Carra

French journalist and politician

*March 9th, 1742, Pont-de-Veyle †October 31st, 1793, Paris

Jean Senebier

Genevan botanist

*May 6th, 1742, Geneva †July 22nd, 1809, Geneva

Johann Heinrich Tischbein

German 1742–1808 F:0

*November 28th, 1742, Haina †December 22nd, 1808, Kassel

Ignaz von Born

Czech mineralogist and nobleman (1742-1791)

*December 26th, 1742, Cavnic †July 24th, 1791, Vienna

Johan Herman Wessel

Norwegian-Danish writer

*October 6th, 1742, Vestby Municipality †December 29th, 1785, Copenhagen

Jean Dauberval

French ballet dancer and choreographer

*August 19th, 1742, Montpellier †February 14th, 1806, Tours

Claus von der Decken

German politician (1742-1826)

*January 5th, 1742, Rittershausen †February 10th, 1826, Hanover

Jean-Mathieu-Philibert Sérurier

French soldier and political figure who rose to the rank of Marshal of France (1742-1819)

*December 8th, 1742, Laon †December 21st, 1819, Paris

Johann Ernst Schulz

German author and theologian

*December 20th, 1742, East Prussia †April 9th, 1806, Königsberg

Ozias Humphry

British artist (1742-1810)

*September 8th, 1742, Honiton †March 9th, 1810, London

Charlotte von Stein

Lady-in-waiting at the court in Weimar; close friend to both Friedrich Schiller and Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

*December 25th, 1742, Eisenach †January 6th, 1827, Weimar

Félix Máximo López

*November 18th, 1742, Madrid †April 9th, 1821, Madrid

Alexei Wassiljewitsch Naryschkin

*August 4th, 1742, Moscow †August 20th, 1800, Moscow

Birthdays of famous people

Public holidays on July 2nd

Fixed holidays (Christian feast day) which are celebrated on July 2nd.

Date as a Roman numeral / digit

II.VII.MDCCXLII

2.7.1742

Legend

M = 1000

D = 500

C = 100

XL = 40

V = 5

I = 1

Leap year

No: With 365 days 1742 is a normal year and no leap year.

Calendar
July 1742

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July 2nd, 1742

Born on July 2nd, 1742

Weekday

Monday

Age

Zodiac

♋

Cancer (The Crab)

Age in days, weeks and months Wow, over 102,000 days old!

102,934 Days

14,704 Weeks

3,381 Months

... in seconds, minutes and hours

Seconds

Minutes

Hours

What happened on July 2nd?

The International Astronomical Union announced that the fourth and fifth moons of Pluto to be discovered would be named Kerberos and Styx, respectively.

Israeli–Palestinian conflict: An Arab man rammed a loader into traffic in Jerusalem, killing three people and injuring 40 others (damage pictured).

More than a year after the end of the Vietnam War, North and South Vietnam officially merged under communist rule to form the Socialist Republic of Vietnam.

U.S. president Lyndon B. Johnson signed the Civil Rights Act into law, outlawing segregation in schools, at the workplace, and other facilities that served the general public.

A German SS unit arrived in Vilnius, Lithuania, and began the systematic execution of up to 100,000 people over the next three years.

Amidst weeks of race riots in East St. Louis, Illinois, white residents burned sections of the city and shot black inhabitants as they escaped the flames.

The U.S. Congress passed the Sherman Antitrust Act, the first United States government action to limit monopolies.

U.S. president James A. Garfield was fatally shot at the Baltimore and Potomac Railroad station in Washington, D.C.

The French frigate Méduse ran aground off the coast of present-day Mauritania, with the survivors escaping on a makeshift raft, depicted in Théodore Géricault's painting The Raft of the Medusa (pictured).

First English Civil War: The combined forces of Scottish Covenanters and English Parliamentarians defeated Royalist troops at the Battle of Marston Moor.

The bodies of Emperor Gaozong of Tang and Empress Wu Zetian were interred in the Qianling Mausoleum.

During the Xuanwu Gate Incident, Prince Li Shimin led his forces to assassinate his rival brothers in a coup for the imperial throne of the Tang dynasty.

Colombian conflict: Íngrid Betancourt, a member of the Chamber of Representatives of Colombia, is released from captivity after being held for six and a half years by FARC.

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

Steve Fossett becomes the first person to fly solo around the world nonstop in a balloon.

Birthdays ... of famous people, actors, celebrities and stars on July 2nd

Born on July 2nd, 1742

Austrian general

Same Day Who's birthday is on July 2nd?

Same year Born in 1742

Birthdays of famous people

Public holidays on July 2nd

Aberoh and Atom (Coptic Church)

Bernardino Realino

Feast of the Visitation (Anglicanism; Levoča at Mariánska hora)

Monegundis

Otto of Bamberg

Oudoceus

Martinian and Processus

Pishoy (Coptic Church)

Stephen III of Moldavia

July 2 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)

Flag Day (Curaçao)

Palio di Provenzano (Siena, Italy)

Police Day (Azerbaijan)

Date as a Roman numeral / digit

2.7.1742

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Age in days, weeks and months
Wow, over 102,000 days old!

Birthdays
... of famous people, actors, celebrities and stars on July 2nd

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Calendar
July 1742

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