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Thursday, July 2, 2026 falls on a Thursday. It is day 183 of the year, ISO week 27, in Q3.
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Thursday, July 2
July 2, 2026 is day 183 of 365, ISO week 27, in Q3. The moon is Waning Gibbous and the zodiac sign is Cancer.
Day of year183
ISO week27
QuarterQ3
Days left182
Sun and Moon Cycles
- Moon phase
- Waning Gibbous
- Lunar age
- 17.2 days
- Illumination
- 93%
- Season
- Summer in the Northern Hemisphere, winter in the Southern Hemisphere
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- Cancer
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- No major fixed observance in the built-in calendar
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July 2
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Aberoh and Atom (Coptic Church)
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Bernardino Realino
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Blessed Eugénie Joubert
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Feast of the Visitation (Anglicanism; Levoča at Mariánska hora)
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Oudoceus
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Martinian and Processus
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Local briefThursday, July 2, 2026 combines practical calendar facts with a wider view of the day: 2020: A landslide at a jade mine in Hpakant killed 175–200 miners, the deadliest mining accident in Burmese history.. Use it to check the date, plan across time zones, and scan the observances and historical markers attached to July 2.
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A landslide at a jade mine in Hpakant killed 175–200 miners, the deadliest mining accident in Burmese history.
The International Astronomical Union announced that the fourth and fifth moons of Pluto to be discovered would be named Kerberos and Styx, respectively.
In the Indonesian province of Aceh on the northern end of Sumatra, a Mw 6.1 strike-slip earthquake killed at least 35 people and injured 276 others.
Israeli–Palestinian conflict: An Arab man rammed a loader into traffic in Jerusalem, killing three people and injuring 40 others (damage pictured).
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets by J. K. Rowling, the second novel of the Harry Potter series, was published.
Singing Revolution: The Soviet economic blockade of Lithuania (pictured) was lifted when the Lithuanian parliament agreed to suspend the effects of their act to re-establish Lithuania as a state.
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.
The Civil Rights Act was signed into law, outlawing segregation in schools, at the workplace, and other facilities that served the general public in the United States.
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Sophia Hutchins, American socialite (born 1996)
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Julian McMahon, Australian-American actor (born 1968)
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Ángela Jeria, Chilean archaeologist and human rights activist (born 1926)
2020
Byron Bernstein, American Twitch streamer (born 1989)
2019
Lee Iacocca, American automotive executive (born 1924)
2018
Alan Longmuir, Scottish musician (born 1948)
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