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- 2002 American businessman, Steve Fossett, completed the first solo around-the-world balloon flight
- 2001 World’s first self-contained artificial heart transplant
59-year old American Robert L. Tools became the first person to receive a self-contained artificial heart transplant called the AbioCor at the Jewish Hospital in Louisville, Kentucky.
- 1937 American aviator Amelia Earhart and her navigator Fred Noonan are heard for the last time before disappearing
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 EversAmerican civil rights activist
- 1877 Hermann Hesse
German writer, Nobel Prize laureate
Deaths On This Day,
July 2
- 1977 Vladimir Nabokov
Russian/American author
- 1961 Ernest Hemingway
American writer, Nobel Prize laureate
- 1778 Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Swiss philosopher, polymath
- 1566 Nostradamus
French astrologer
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