Holidays and commemorative dates:
International Day of Sports Journalists – the date of July 2 was chosen because on this day in 1924, the International Sports Press Association (AIPS) was formed in Paris.
Day of the tax service employee – celebrated since 2013. Four years ago, the name of the holiday was changed by presidential decree. Now it is called “Taxman’s Day of Ukraine”.
World UFO Day – has been celebrated since 2001 on the initiative of UFO researcher Haktan Akdogan. On June 2, 1947, in the desert of the American state of New Mexico, the fall of an unknown object was recorded, which UFO researchers believe to be an alien ship.
Events on this day:
1559 — Dmytro Vyshnevetsky, together with the Cossacks, attacked the Ottoman fortress of Azov.
1776 – The Second Continental Congress in Philadelphia decided on the separation of the American colonies from the Kingdom of Great Britain. The US Declaration of Independence was adopted two days later, on July 4, and read publicly for the first time on July 8.
1953 — the International Television Organization (the organizer of the Eurovision Song Contest) began its work.
1996 — in the city of Dniprodzerzhinsk (now Kamianske), a city tram crashed into the wall of a building due to brake failure on a steep descent. 34 people died, about 100 were injured.
Around 6 p.m. tram KTM-5 (car inventory number 1044), following route No. 2a along Chapaeva Street, in the direction of Anoshkina Avenue. More than 150 people were in the carriage of the overcrowded tram at rush hour. Braking systems failed on a very steep descent. The car rapidly gained speed, and after two kilometers of uncontrolled travel, the tram derailed and collided with a low concrete barrier a few tens of meters from the building of secondary school No. 10.
According to eyewitnesses, the speed of the tram at the time of the collision was at least 70 km/h. As a result of the disaster, 34 people died (29 at the scene, another 5 died in the hospital). Among the dead were 20 women and 1 child. More than 100 people received injuries of varying degrees of severity.
In particular, several people died and were injured as a result of the panic. Some of the passengers jumped out on the move at great speed through the broken windows. This disaster became the biggest in the entire history of electric transport in Ukraine.
The city authorities of Dniprodzerzhinsk immortalized the memory of the people who died in the terrible tragedy by erecting a monument at the site of the disaster, in the form of two parallel straight lines that bend chaotically at the top, symbolizing the tram track twisted as a result of the car falling.
2011 – Wladimir Klitschko’s victory in the fight against David Haye led to the fact that the brothers became the owners of all the prestigious heavyweight boxing belts.
