July 2 Holidays

World UFO Day was established on July 2 to mark the date of the 1947 Roswell incident — when a mysterious object crashed in New Mexico, triggering one of the most enduring and hotly debated conspiracy theories in American history. National Disco Day celebrates the music and culture of disco — born in underground New York clubs in the early 1970s, it peaked with Saturday Night Fever in 1977, generated some of the best-selling singles in music history, and was killed at Disco Demolition Night on July 12, 1979. Fast of Shiva Asar B’Tammuz is the Jewish minor fast day commemorating the breach of Jerusalem’s walls by Babylonian forces in 586 BCE and by Roman forces in 70 CE — beginning a three-week mourning period called Bein ha-Metzarim. I Forgot Day was created to acknowledge the obligations, birthdays, and commitments we have let slip and to take one action to make it right. A Roswell crash, a mirror ball, a fast, and a belated apology.