July 2 in history: • 626 – Li Shimin (pictured) led his forces to assassinate his rival brothers in a coup for the imperial throne of Tang China. → go there • 1816 – The ran aground off the coast of present-day Mauritania, with the survivors escaping on a makeshift raft, depicted in Théodore Géricault's painting The Raft of the Medusa. → go there • 1941 – A German SS unit arrived in Vilnius, Lithuania, and began the systematic execution of up to 100,000 people over the next three years. → go there • 1976 – More than a year after the end of the Vietnam War, North and South Vietnam officially merged under communist rule to form the Socialist Republic of Vietnam. → go there • 2013 – The International Astronomical Union announced that the fourth and fifth moons of Pluto to be discovered would be named Kerberos and Styx, respectively. → go there Died 1883: Sihayo kaXongo Wiki link Born 1936: Omar Suleiman Wiki link Died 1983: Philippa Mdluli Wiki link Born 1986: Lindsay Lohan Wiki link Pictured: Li Shimin.