What happened on 2 July?

9 events from the Ever-When timeline, ranked by how much they mattered.

1. 1964 US Civil Rights Act Lyndon Johnson signs sweeping legislation outlawing racial segregation and discrimination.
2. 1997 Asian financial crisis Currency and banking crisis sweeping through East Asia.
3. 1925 Born: Patrice Lumumba First prime minister of the independent Congo; assassinated with Belgian and CIA involvement.
4. 1644 Battle of Marston Moor Decisive parliamentarian victory in Yorkshire; Cromwell's Ironsides establish their reputation; royalists lose the north.
5. 1928 Equal Franchise Act 1928 Women aged 21 and over given vote on the same terms as men; universal adult suffrage achieved.
6. 1582 Battle of Yamazaki Hideyoshi defeats Akechi Mitsuhide after Oda Nobunaga's death.
7. 1937 Disappearance of Amelia Earhart The pioneering aviator vanishes over the Pacific attempting a round-the-world flight, an enduring mystery.
8. 1757 The Duke of Newcastle's second premiership The Pitt-Newcastle coalition wins the Seven Years War and doubles the British empire.
9. 1881 Assassination of James A. Garfield Disappointed office-seeker Charles Guiteau shoots President Garfield at a Washington railway station; Garfield dies of infection on 19 September, and the shock drives civil-service