^B{^#!16!2 July^N! Feast day of Saints Processus and Martinian, St Monegundis, and St Otto of Bamberg.
^B{1644 ^B}Oliver Cromwell defeated Prince Rupert at theBattle of Marston Moor, his first victory over the Royalists in the English Civil War. ^B{1865 ^B}At a revivalist meeting at Whitechapel, London, UK, William Booth formed the Salvation Army. ^B{1900 ^B}The 2nd Olympic Games opened in Paris. ^B{1940 ^B}The Vichy Government was set up in France, headed by Henri PΘtain. ^B{1956 ^B}Elvis Presley recorded 'Hound Dog' and 'Don't Be Cruel' in New York. ^B{1964 ^B}President Johnson signed the US Civil Rights Bill prohibiting racial discrimination. ^B{1990 ^B}Over a thousand Muslim pilgrims were killed when a stampede occurred in a pedestrian tunnel leading to the holy city of Mecca.
^B{^I{^#!14!Born ^N}Thomas Cranmer, archbishop of Canterbury, ^B{1489^B}; Christoph Gluτk, German composer, ^B{1714^B}; William Henry Bragg, English physicist, ^B{1862^B}; Hermann Hesse, German poet and novelist, ^B{1877^B}; Ernest Hemingway, ^B{1899^B}; David Owen, British politician, ^B{1938^B}; Kenneth Clarke, British politician, ^B{1940^B}.
^B{^I{^#!14!Died ^N}Nostradamus, French physician and astrologer, ^B{1566^B}; Jean Jacques Rousseau, French philosopher and writer, ^B{1778^B}; Amelia Earhart, US aviator, disappeared over the Pacific, ^B{1937^B}; Ernest Hemingway, US novelist, ^B{1961^B}; Betty Grable, US film actress, ^B{1973^B}; Vladimir Nabokov, Russian novelist, ^B{1977^B}.
