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Events on July 2

• 1505 The law student Martin Luther is almost struck by lightning near Erfurt and vows to become a monk.
• 1900 With the launch of the first Zeppelin LZ 1 by Count von Zeppelin, the first flight of a rigid airship takes place on the shores of Lake Constance.
• 1912 The first 12 volumes of the still-existing Insel-Bücherei, announced on May 23 and typeset by hand, are delivered to bookstores by Insel Verlag.
• 1937 During an attempt to circumnavigate the world, female aviation pioneer Amelia Earhart vanishes without a trace off Howland Island with her navigator Fred Noolan. The event triggers the largest search operation before the Second World War and gives rise to a great variety of conspiracy theories.
• 1955 The Tierpark Berlin opens in East Berlin, so that after the division of the city, the population can also visit a zoo in the east.
• 1963 The Élysée Treaty enters into force as a German-French friendship treaty.
• 1970 ZDF launches the game show The Golden Shot, hosted by Vico Torriani, with its fiftieth episode. The show was the first entertainment program broadcast in color on German television and became popular in the 1960s through Lou van Burg.
• 1985 To explore Halley's Comet, the European space probe Giotto, named after Giotto di Bondone, is launched from the spaceport in Kourou.
• 1989 At the European Championship known as the European Competition for Women's Football, the German national team wins the title for the first time with a 4:1 victory over Norway.
• 1998 Joanne K. Rowling publishes the second book in her Harry Potter series, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets.
• 2001 Following the Kreil ruling of the European Court of Justice, the first women begin careers as officers in the German Bundeswehr.
• 2005 The Live 8 concert, organized by Bob Geldof and Bono, takes place simultaneously at ten different locations under the motto Make Poverty History. The name is modeled on the Live Aid concert of 1985.

Born on July 2

• 1877 Hermann Hesse, German-language writer and painter, Nobel Prize laureate
• 1904 René Lacoste, French tennis player and fashion designer
• 1922 Pierre Cardin, French fashion designer and businessman
• 1930 Carlos Menem, Argentine jurist and politician, president
• 1962 Monika Hohlmeier, German politician, member of the state parliament, MEP
• 1963 Jens Riewa, German news spokesperson
• 1970 Detlef Soost, German dancer and choreographer
• 1990 Roman Lob, German singer
• 1990 Margot Robbie, Australian actress
• 1991 Hendrik Pekeler, German handball player

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Source of events and birthdays: German Wikipedia article „2. Juli“, licence CC BY-SA 4.0, selected, shortened and translated by Birthday Paper.

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