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July 2, 2023: This Day in History


Release time:

2023-07-02

July 2, 626: The Incident at the Xuanwu Gate

July 2, 1601: Ge Xian's Anti-Tax Uprising

July 2, 1698: Thomas Savery obtains a patent for the steam engine

July 2, 1778: Death of Jean-Jacques Rousseau, a leading figure of the French Enlightenment

July 2, 1840: British ships attack Xiamen, Deng Tingzhen fights them off

July 2, 1895: Birth of Jin Shanbao, a renowned Chinese agricultural scientist and educator

July 2, 1901: Successful maiden voyage of the first airship designed by German Ferdinand von Zeppelin

July 2, 1922: The Northern Expeditionary Army returns to quell Chen Jiongming; the navy commander suddenly defects

July 2, 1928: Feng Yuxiang becomes the third Chinese person featured on the cover of Time magazine

July 2, 1931: The Wanbaoshan Incident orchestrated by the Japanese

July 2, 1935: Japan formulates a plan to plunder resources from North China

July 2, 1936: The Red Second and Fourth Front Armies begin their northward march

July 2, 1945: Sino-Soviet negotiations on the conditions for Soviet troop deployment

July 2, 1947: Poland transforms Auschwitz concentration camp into a memorial

July 2, 1949: The National Congress of Literary and Art Workers of China convenes

July 2, 1959: The Lushan Conference is held

July 2, 1961: Death of American novelist Ernest Hemingway

July 2, 1965: Li Zongren returns from overseas

July 2, 1990: The 28th Congress of the CPSU is held; Yeltsin announces his withdrawal from the CPSU

July 2, 1994: 36 Chinese crew members go missing

July 2, 1995: Daya Bay Nuclear Power Plant in Guangdong restarts operations

July 2, 1997: The Asian financial crisis erupts

July 2, 1997: The Chinese Basketball Association launches the CBA League

July 2, 2002: Unit 1 of the Lingao Nuclear Power Plant in Guangdong begins operation

July 2, 2003: China's "Three Parallel Rivers" is inscribed on the World Heritage List

July 2, 2004: Severe flooding in central and southern Taiwan

July 2, 2007: Death of Fu Dongju, daughter of Fu Zuoyi