HISTORY At A Glance

TODAY is Thursday, July 2, the 184th day of 2020. There are 182 days left in the year. Highlights in history on this date:

1937 Amelia Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan are last heard from over the Pacific Ocean while attempting to make the first equatorial round-theworld flight.

1966 The French military explodes a nuclear test bomb code-named Aldébaran in Moruroa, their first nuclear test in the Pacific.

1976 Fall of the Republic of Vietnam; Communist North Vietnam declares their union to form the Socialist

Republic of Vietnam. 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. 2002 Steve Fossett becomes the first person to fly solo around the world nonstop in a balloon.

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.

2008 Íngrid Betancourt, a member of the Chamber of Representatives of Colombia, is released from captivity after being held for six and a half years by FARC.

2013 A magnitude 6.1 earthquake strikes Aceh, Indonesia, killing at least 42 people and injuring 420 others.