What Happened On This Day – July 2

World UFO Day 2022 — Here's Why July 2 Is Celebrated As World UFO Day                 July 2 each year is celebrated as World UFO Day is celebrated to create awareness among people about Unidentified Flying Objects (UFO) and to celebrate their existence. UFO day was earlier celebrated on June 24 too.

It was celebrated on June 24 as on this date American aviator Kenneth Albert had claimed that he had seen nine unusual objects flying in tandem near Mount Rainier, Washington in 1947. This was the first widely reported modern unidentified flying object sighting in the United States. So many celebrated June 24th as the UFO Day.

It is now celebrated on July 2 because of the Roswell incident which is the world’s most famous, most exhaustively investigated and most thoroughly debunked UFO claim.

In this case, the United States Army Air Forces officers from Roswell Army Field recovered a balloon from a farm which was near Corona in New Mexico after which the United States Air Force published a report where they described the crashed object as a nuclear test surveillance balloon from Project Mogul but the event continued to be the popular headline of that time where most believed that the crashed object was a flying saucer and the debris was extraterrestrial.

One of the foremost reasons to celebrate this day is to encourage governments to declassify their information about the various sightings of Unidentified Flying Objects. The UFO community backs the celebration of this day over the globe because on this day the UFO community gets to discuss and share their knowledge with the non-believers of UFOs and get to aware of their existence.

This day is celebrated by the believers of this day in which people come together and look at the skies and do other UFO-themed activities.

The World Day Organization declared July 2nd as the official World Unidentified Flying Objects Day, this was done by the organization to eliminate any kind of confusion between the two World UFO Days.                                                                            What Happened On This Day – July 2

2002 American businessman, Steve Fossett completes the first solo around-the-world Balloon Flight

This was Fossett's 6th attempt to circumnavigate the world. It took him 13 days in a balloon called Spirit of Freedom to cover 20,000 miles.

2001 World's First Self-Contained Artificial Heart Transplant

59-year old American Robert L. Tools became the first person to receive the a self-contained artificial heart transplant called the AbioCor at the Jewish Hospital in Louisville, Kentucky. The AbioCor is an artificial heart that is not connected to wires or an external pump.

1937 American aviator Amelia Earhart and her navigator Fred Noonan are heard for the last time before disappearing

They were attempting to make the first around-the-world flight in a Lockheed Model 10 Electra. Neither they nor the plane has ever been found and that has led to speculation about what happened to them. An accomplished pilot, Earhart was the first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean.

1900 The Zeppelin Takes Off for the First Time

The rigid aircraft named after Count Ferdinand von Zeppelin, the inventor of the dirigible and founder of the Zeppelin Airship Construction Company, made its first flight over Lake Constance in Germany. Unlike blimps or balloons, Zeppelins are built by stretching material over a rigid framework, usually made of metal. Zeppelins can be steered and they were used by the German Air Force to conduct aerial attacks during the First

World War.         Aerial warfare of First World War in rare photographs, 1914-1918

                                                         1843 Alligator Falls Out of the Sky in Charleston, South Carolina during a thunderstorm.

It is believed that the strange incident happened when a waterspout carried an alligator from a body of water and dropped in on the city.

Illustration of stork, signifying birth

Births On This Day,

July 2

1986 Lindsay Lohan

American actress, singer

1925 Patrice Lumumba

Congolese politician, 1st Prime Minister of the Democratic Republic of the Congo

1925 Medgar Evers

American civil rights activist

1877 Hermann Hesse

German writer, Nobel Prize laureate

1489 Thomas Cranmer

English Archbishop of Canterbury

Illustration of tombstone, signifying death

Deaths On This Day,

July 2

1977 Vladimir Nabokov

Russian/American author

1961 Ernest Hemingway

American writer, Nobel Prize laureate

1914 Joseph Chamberlain

British politician

1778 Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Swiss philosopher, polymath

1566 Nostradamus

French astrologer