Wednesday, July 2, 2025

Wednesday, July 2, 2025 falls on a Wednesday. It is day 183 of the year, ISO week 27, in Q3.

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Wednesday, July 2

July 2, 2025 is day 183 of 365, ISO week 27, in Q3. The moon is First Quarter and the zodiac sign is Cancer.

Day of year183
ISO week27
QuarterQ3
Days left182

Sun and Moon Cycles

Moon phase
First Quarter
Lunar age
6.6 days
Illumination
42%
Season
Summer in the Northern Hemisphere, winter in the Southern Hemisphere

Zodiac and Holidays

Zodiac
Cancer
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No major fixed observance in the built-in calendar
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Today's Celebrations

July 2
Observance Aberoh and Atom (Coptic Church)
Observance Bernardino Realino
Observance Blessed Eugénie Joubert
Observance Feast of the Visitation (Anglicanism; Levoča at Mariánska hora)
Observance Monegundis
Observance Oudoceus
Observance Martinian and Processus
Observance Pishoy (Coptic Church)

Daily Briefing

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Wednesday, July 2, 2025 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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History for 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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