At A Glance
2 July 1991 at a glance
- Day of the week
- 2 July 1991 was a Tuesday.
- UK Number One
- The UK Number One single was “Any Dream Will Do” by Jason Donovan.
- Top Film of 1991
- The highest-grossing film worldwide released in 1991 was Terminator 2: Judgment Day.
- Star sign
- The star sign for 2 July is Cancer.
- Chinese zodiac
- In the Chinese zodiac, 2 July 1991 fell in the Year of the Goat.
- Birthstone
- The birthstone for July is Ruby.
- Moon phase
- The moon phase on 2 July 1991 was Waning Gibbous.
On this day: 2 July
- 1976 End of South Vietnam; Communist North Vietnam annexes the former South Vietnam to form the unified Socialist Republic of Vietnam.
- 1986 Rodrigo Rojas and Carmen Gloria Quintana are burnt alive during a street demonstration against the dictatorship of General Augusto Pinochet in Chile in the Quemados case.
- 1997 The Bank of Thailand floats the baht, triggering the Asian financial crisis.
- 2000 Vicente Fox Quesada is elected the first President of México from an opposition party, the Partido Acción Nacional, after more than 70 years of continuous rule by the Partido Revolucionario Institucional, in the 2000 Mexican general election.
- 2005 The Live 8 benefit concerts takes place in the G8 states and in South Africa. More than 1,000 musicians perform and are broadcast on 182 television networks and 2,000 radio networks.
Famous people born on 2 July
- Jerry Hall, American model and actress (born 1956)
- Olav V, Norwegian king, 1957–1991 (1903–1991)
- Margot Robbie, Australian actress and producer (born 1990)
- Lindsay Lohan, American actress and singer (born 1986)
Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)
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Events of 1991 in the United Kingdom
A selection from Wikipedia's '1991 in the United Kingdom'. Not a complete list.
- 3 January – The UK expels all Iraqi diplomats from the country due to the Iraqi government's illegal annexation of Kuwait five months earlier.
- 7 February – The Provisional Irish Republican Army launch a mortar attack against 10 Downing Street in London, blowing in all the windows of the cabinet room, during a session of the War Cabinet, but there are no injuries.
- 8 March – Ribble Valley, the tenth safest Conservative constituency in Britain, is won by the Liberal Democrats in a by-election (caused by the departure of David Waddington to the House of Lords).
Life in 1991
Prime Minister
John Major
Monarch
Elizabeth II
Pint of Beer
£1.15
Loaf of Bread
57p
Average House
£56,565
Weekly Wage
£290.00
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