January 4 » Utah is admitted as the 45th U.S. state.
January 18 » An X-ray generating machine is exhibited for the first time by H. L. Smith.
February 21 » An Englishman raised in Australia, Bob Fitzsimmons, fought an Irishman, Peter Maher, in an American promoted event which technically took place in Mexico, winning the 1896 World Heavyweight Championship in boxing.
March 2 » The Battle of Adwa: The Italian Army defeated by the Ethiopian Army in Adwa, Tigray, Ethiopia.
April 15 » Closing ceremony of the Games of the I Olympiad in Athens, Greece.
May 26 » Charles Dow publishes the first edition of the Dow Jones Industrial Average.
Day of death July 2, 1971
The temperature on July 2, 1971 was between 13.2 °C and 20.6 °C and averaged 15.7 °C. There was -0.1 mm of rain. There was 1.4 hours of sunshine (8%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 1 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the ??. Source: KNMI
February 2 » The international Ramsar Convention for the conservation and sustainable utilization of wetlands is signed in Ramsar, Mazandaran, Iran.
April 19 » Sierra Leone becomes a republic, and Siaka Stevens the president.
September 9 » The four-day Attica Prison riot begins, eventually resulting in 39 dead, most killed by state troopers retaking the prison.
September 13 » Chairman Mao Zedong's second in command and successor Marshal Lin Biao flees the People's Republic of China after the failure of an alleged coup. His plane crashes in Mongolia, killing all aboard.
October 29 » In Macon, Georgia, guitarist Duane Allman is killed in a motorcycle accident.
December 7 » The Battle of Sylhet is fought between the Pakistani military and the Mukti Bahini.
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