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World UFO Day is a day in which individuals and groups are encouraged to gather together to watch the skies
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_UFO_Day



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The Birla Planetarium, Kolkata, was inaugurated on 2 July 1963
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Birla_Planetarium,_Kolkata



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The Manhattan Project's hemispheres for the first plutonium pit (or core) were produced on 2 July 1945
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manhattan_Project

A nuclear test code named Aldebaran was conducted on July 2, 1966. 
http://astronomy.activeboard.com/t49840146/aldebaran-nuclear-test/



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The first Zeppelin flight occurred on 2 July 1900 over Lake Constance
http://astronomy.activeboard.com/t7809853/graf-zeppelin/

The TIROS-10 (OT-1) satellite was launched on July 2, 1965
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Television_Infrared_Observation_Satellite

The SAR-Lupe 2 satellite was launched on July 2, 2007
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SAR-Lupe_2

The Giotto spacecraft was launched on the 2nd July 1985
http://astronomy.activeboard.com/t24400036/giotto-mission/

The Orbiting Carbon Observatory-2 satellite was launched on 2 July 2014
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orbiting_Carbon_Observatory_2

Soviet space dog Otvazhnaya ("Brave One") made a flight on 2 July 1959
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soviet_space_dogs#Otvazhnaya_and_Snezhinka

Amelia Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan disappeared over the Pacific Ocean on July 2, 1937
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amelia_Earhart



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Linda Maxine Godwin Ph.D. (born July 2, 1952) is an American scientist and retired NASA astronaut.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linda_Maxine_Godwin

Major general Georgi Ivanov Kakalov (July 2, 1940) is a retired military officer and the first Bulgarian cosmonaut.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georgi_Ivanov

Pedro Paulet Mostajo (July 2, 1874 - 1945) was a Peruvian scientist.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pedro_Paulet

Iven Carl "Kinch" Kincheloe, Jr. (July 2, 1928 - July 26, 1958) was an American test pilot
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iven_Carl_Kincheloe

Hans-Ulrich Rudel (2 July 1916 - 18 December 1982) was a Stuka dive-bomber pilot during World War II 
http://astronomy.activeboard.com/t49840088/hans-ulrich-rudel-1916-1982/

Lutz D. Schmadel (July 2, 1942 in Berlin - October 21, 2016) was a German astronomer 
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lutz_D._Schmadel

Hans Albrecht Bethe (July 2, 1906 - March 6, 2005) was a German-American nuclear physicist
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hans_Bethe

Sir William Henry Bragg (2 July 1862 - 10 March 1942) was a British physicist
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Henry_Bragg



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Independence Day is a 1996 American military science fiction film about an alien invasion of Earth. 
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Independence_Day_(1996_film)

Mars et Avril (aka Mars & Avril or March and April) is a Canadian science fiction film
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mars_et_Avril



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NGC 6085 was discovered by German astronomer Albert Marth on the 2nd July 1864.
http://astronomy.activeboard.com/t57969337/ngc-6085/

NGC 6427 was discovered by German astronomer Albert Marth on the 2nd July 1864. 
http://astronomy.activeboard.com/t57969331/ngc-6427/

NGC 6458 was discovered by German astronomer Albert Marth on the 2nd July 1864.
http://astronomy.activeboard.com/t57969319/ngc-6458/

NGC 6669 was discovered by German astronomer Albert Marth on the 2nd July 1864.
http://astronomy.activeboard.com/t57969305/ngc-6669/

NGC 6680 was discovered by German astronomer Albert Marth on the 2nd July 1864.
http://astronomy.activeboard.com/t57969298/ngc-6680/

NGC 6697 was discovered by German astronomer Albert Marth on the 2nd July 1864.
http://astronomy.activeboard.com/t57969295/ngc-6697/

NGC 7529 was discovered by German astronomer Ernst Wilhelm Leberecht Tempel on the 2nd July 1880.
http://astronomy.activeboard.com/t57969288/ngc-7529/



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The Vela 4 satellite detected the first gamma-ray burst (GRB 670702) on July 2, 1967
http://astronomy.activeboard.com/t54224336/grb-670702/



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Meteorites

The Washougal (Howardite) meteorite fell in Washington, USA, on the 2nd July, 1939.
http://astronomy.activeboard.com/t43700132/washougal-meteorite/

The Akwanga (H chondrite) meteorite fell in Plateau, Nigeria, on the 2nd July, 1959.
http://astronomy.activeboard.com/t43700121/akwanga-meteorite/

The Qidong (L/LL5 chondrite) meteorite fell in Jiangsu, China, on the 2nd July, 1982.
http://astronomy.activeboard.com/t43700047/qidong-meteorite/

The Magombedze (H3-5 chondrite) meteorite fell in Masvingo, Zimbabwe, on the 2nd July, 1990.
http://astronomy.activeboard.com/t43700138/magombedze-meteorite/

The Chergach meteorite fell on 2 or 3 July 2007, southwest of El Mokhtar, Erg Chech, Timbuktu district, Mali. 
http://astronomy.activeboard.com/t54233207/chergach-meteorite/



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