Vero - Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/July 2

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  The first Zeppelin
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  US President Lyndon B. Johnson signs the 1964 Civil Rights Act
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  Amelia Earhart
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  Battle of Marston Moor
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  Kinkaku-ji, Kyoto, Japan
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  The Raft of the Medusa
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  Aftermath of the Jerusalem ramming attack
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  James A. Garfield

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963 – The Eastern forces of the Byzantine army proclaimed Nicephorus Phocas to be Byzantine Emperor on the plains outside Cappadocian Caesarea.	needs more footnotes
1298 – Albert I's army defeated the forces of the deposed Adolf of Nassau at the Battle of Göllheim following Albert's election to replace Adolf as King of Germany.	Undercited
1839 – Over fifty African slaves mutinied on the slave ship La Amistad off the coast of Cuba.	lots of CN tags (8)
1890 – The U.S. Congress passed the Sherman Antitrust Act, the first United States government action to limit monopolies.	refimprove sections, OR
1917 – Amidst weeks of race riots in East St. Louis, Illinois, white residents burned sections of the city and shot black inhabitants as they escaped the flames.	refimprove sections
1900 – The first Zeppelin flight occurred over Lake Constance near Friedrichshafen, Germany.	refimprove sections
1900 – Finlandia, a tone poem by Jean Sibelius which forms the basis of one of the national songs of Finland, was first performed in Helsinki.	recentism
1937 – Aviation pioneer Amelia Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan disappeared over the Pacific Ocean during an attempt to make a circumnavigational flight.	refimprove section
1950 – A mentally ill Buddhist monk set fire to the Golden Pavilion at Kinkaku-ji, destroying what is now one of the most popular tourist destinations in Japan.	missing page numbers
1962 – The first Walmart store, now the largest company in the world by revenue, opened in Rogers, Arkansas, U.S.	recentism
1997 – The Thai baht rapidly lost half of its value, marking the beginning of the Asian financial crisis.	unreferenced sections
2000 – In the Mexican general election, Vicente Fox was elected to be the first president of Mexico from an opposition party in 71 years.	Election: refimprove section; Fox: oudated
Robert Peel |d|1850	unreferenced section
[[Stephen the Great|Template:Nowrap of Moldavia]] |d|1504|	68 "better source needed" tags
Charles Tupper |b|1821|	Too much uncited
Theodoor Rombouts |b|1597|	Date not cited
Harriet Brooks |b|1876|	Tagged with a number of citations, clarifications etc.
Thomas Harriot |d|1621|	6 citation needed tags plus more uncited
: Feast day of Saints Martinian and Processus (Catholicism)	Could not verify date from source cited

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• 626 – Li Shimin led his forces to assassinate his rival brothers in a coup for the imperial throne of Tang China.
• 706 – The bodies of Emperor Gaozong of Tang and Empress Wu Zetian were interred in the Qianling Mausoleum.
• 1644 – First English Civil War: The combined forces of Scottish Covenanters and English Parliamentarians defeated Royalist troops at the Battle of Marston Moor.
• 1724 – On the Feast of the Visitation, Bach led the first performance of his [[Meine Seel erhebt den Herren, BWV 10|Meine Seel erhebt den Herren, BWVTemplate:Nbsp10]], based on the German Magnificat.
• 1816 – The Template:Ship 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 (pictured).
• 1881 – U.S. president James A. Garfield (pictured) was fatally shot by Charles J. Guiteau at the Baltimore and Potomac Railroad station in Washington, D.C.
• 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.
• 1964 – The Civil Rights Act was signed into law, outlawing segregation in schools, at the workplace, and other facilities that served the general public in the United States.
• 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.
• 2008 – Israeli–Palestinian conflict: An Arab man rammed a loader into traffic in Jerusalem, killing three people and injuring 40 others (damage pictured).
• 2013 – The International Astronomical Union announced that the fourth and fifth moons of Pluto to be discovered would be named Kerberos and Styx, respectively.
• Born/died this day: | Denmark Vesey|d|1822| Robert Ridgway|b|1850| Wilhelm Cuno|b|1876| Sihayo kaXongo |d|1883| Hans Bethe |b|1906| Erich Topp |b|1914| Leonard J. Arrington|b|1917| Fumiko Hori|b|1918| Wisława Szymborska|b|1923| Carlos Menem|b|1930| Humbert Roque Versace|b|1937| Maria Lourdes Sereno|b|1960| Alicia Patterson |d|1963| Joseph Fielding Smith|d|1972| Sam Hornish Jr. |b|1979| Bruno Rezende |b|1986| Douglas Engelbart|d|2013

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• 1779 – American Revolutionary War: French troops landed near St. George's, Grenada, and began their capture of the island.
• 1990 – Singing Revolution: The Soviet economic blockade of Lithuania (pictured) was lifted when the Lithuanian parliament agreed to suspend the effects of their act to re-establish Lithuania as a state.
• 1998 – Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets by J. K. Rowling, the second novel of the Harry Potter series, was published.
• 2013 – In the Indonesian province of Aceh on the northern end of Sumatra, a M_w 6.1 strike-slip earthquake killed at least 35 people and injured 276 others.
• 2020 – A landslide at a jade mine in Hpakant killed 175–200 miners, the deadliest mining accident in Burmese history.