July 2
People born on this day are Cancer.
- 1934
The Night of the Long Knives ends after three days of killings.
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Amelia Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan are last heard from over the Pacific Ocean and disappear while attempting to make the first equatorial round-the-world flight.
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Civil rights movement: U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson signs the Civil Rights Act of 1964 meant to prohibit segregation in public places.
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End of South Vietnam; Communist North Vietnam annexes the former South Vietnam to form the unified Socialist Republic of Vietnam.
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Rodrigo Rojas and Carmen Gloria Quintana are burnt alive during a street demonstration against the dictatorship of General Augusto Pinochet in Chile in the Quemados case.
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Aeroflot Flight 2306 crashes while attempting an emergency landing at Syktyvkar Airport in Syktyvkar, in present-day Komi Republic, Russia, killing 54 people.
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In the 1990 Mecca tunnel tragedy, 1,400 Muslim pilgrims are suffocated to death and trampled upon in a pedestrian tunnel leading to the holy city of Mecca.
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A mob sets fire to the Hotel Madımak in Sivas, Turkey, where an Alevi cultural festival was taking place, killing 37 people.
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USAir Flight 1016 crashes near Charlotte Douglas International Airport, killing 37 of the 57 people on board.
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The Bank of Thailand floats the baht, triggering the Asian financial crisis.
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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, in the 2000 Mexican general election.
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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.
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1996Julia Grabher, Austrian tennis player
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1995Ryan Murphy, American swimmer
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1994Henrik Kristoffersen, Norwegian skier
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1994Derrick White, American basketball player
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1993Vince Staples, American rapper and actor
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1993Saweetie, American rapper
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1992Madison Chock, American ice dancer
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1992Jānis Timma, Latvian basketball player
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1990Kayla Harrison, American judoka
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1990Merritt Mathias, American soccer player
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1990Margot Robbie, Australian actress and producer
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1990Danny Rose, English footballer
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