1214 Siege of Roche-au-Moine ends, part of King John of England's attempt to reclaim Normandy from France.
1644 Battle of Marston Moor, North Yorkshire: Parliamentary forces under Lords Fairfax and Manchester defeat royalists led by Prince Rupert.
1798 Marine Police established by The West India Committee to guard merchant vessels on the river Thames, London, beginnings of the world's oldest continuously serving police force .
1843 An alligator falls from the sky during a thunderstorm in Charleston, South Carolina.
July 1866 saw the launch of Yr Australydd, a Welsh language Calvinistic Methodist newspaper, in Victoria (Australia), edited by William Meirion Evans and Theophilus Williams. Yr Australydd was an Australian monthly newspaper in the Welsh language published in Victoria between 1866 and 1872. Its name translates as The Australian. Its intended readership was obviously, Welsh Australians, but it was more specifically linked to the Welsh Calvinistic Methodist community. The newspaper's aim was also to encourage a sense of Welshness among its readers, by maintaining the language and promoting Welsh culture and literature. The newspaper printed news from Wales and requested and printed literary contributions from readers, which included poetry, short stories, as well as a serialised novel, entitled Cymro yn Awstralia (A Welshman in Australia, 1870). Publication ceased in 1872, for reasons which remain unclear and in 1874, it was replaced by Yr Ymwelydd, a similar newspaper edited by Rev. Evans.
Caerphilly Miners’ Hospital received its first patient on 2nd July 1923
In 1917, members of the South Wales Miners’ Federation from the 29 coal mines of the Rhymney Valley decided to pay a weekly levy of one penny towards creating a cottage hospital in Caerphilly, to treat injured and sick miners. In August 1919 they purchased 'The Beeches', the home of mining contractor Frederick Piggot for £5,000. The miners increased their levy to 2d and then 6d in 1920 and with funds of nearly £30,000 they were able to equip the house as a hospital, with 32 beds. It received its first patient on 2 July 1923. In the 1940s the hospital broadened its services to the whole community and in 1948 it joined the National Health Service. The hospital was closed in 2011 with services transferred to Ysbyty Ystrad Fawr at Ystrad Mynach
1928 British parliament reduces the age at women can vote to 21, the same as men (Representation of the People Act 1928).
On 2nd July 1940, 800 people were drowned when the Arandora Star was torpedoed off the Irish coast by a German U-Boat. Among the 1200 internees aboard, being deported to Canada were over 100 Welsh-Italians who had settled in Wales decades earlier. In early June 1940, immediately Italy entered the Second World War, all Italian males in Britain who held a passport and were aged between 18 and 70 years were arrested and forced to leave their homes or workplaces with immediate effect. They were to be indefinitely interned under orders from the British War Cabinet. Subsequent reports from the Red Cross and other organisations reveal that these internees were badly treated by the British authorities. They were imprisoned in inhumane surroundings, without access to sufficient food, without adequate sanitation or medical care and more than 700 Italian internees were transported to Liverpool, where they were herded aboard the former cruise liner, the Arandora Star, along with some 450 German and Austrian internees and Prisoners of War who were all to be shipped to Newfoundland in Canada. The first Welsh national memorial to the victims of the Arandora Star debacle was unveiled at a ceremony in Cardiff’s Metropolitan Cathedral of St David in Charles Street, Cardiff on 2nd July 2010. The memorial is a collaboration between the Welsh-Italian artist, Susanna Ciccotti, from Swansea and the world-renowned stone carver from Ammanford, Ieuan Rees
On 2nd July 1954, the results of an official ballot of the members of the Welsh local authorities were announced, confirming that Cardiff was to be the capital city of Wales. Before this, Wales did not have an official capital city and the position was officially confirmed in a written statement by the Minister for Welsh Affairs Gwilym Lloyd George to the House of Commons on Tuesday 20th December 1955. The results of the ballot gave Cardiff 136 votes, Caernarfon 11 and Aberystwyth 4.
On 2nd July 2013, Wales became the first country in the United Kingdom to bring into law an opt-out organ donation system. Previously, people across the UK had to a voluntary scheme and carry a card if they wish to donate organs. People in Wales will now be presumed to have agreed for their organs to be donated after death unless they have opted out of the scheme.
… 2023 🏏 The Johnny Bairstow wandering out of his crease incident. Definitely out says this cricket fan. …
2 Jul 1966 David Bowie and The Lower Third appeared at The Lion Hotel in Warrington, England, (they were paid £30 for the gig). Also appearing was The Powerhouse which featured Eric Clapton, Jack Bruce, Steve Winwood and Paul Jones.
2 Jul 1969 Working on tracks for the Abbey Road album, Paul McCartney recorded ‘Her Majesty’. Then Paul, George, and Ringo record 15 takes of ‘Golden Slumbers/Carry That Weight’. John Lennon was absent, in hospital in Golspie, Scotland, following a car accident the previous day.
