What happened on 2 July?

12 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. 626 Xuanwu Gate Incident Li Shimin ambushes and kills his brothers, the crown prince and his ally, at a palace gate in Chang'an; within weeks his father abdicates and he becomes Emperor Taizong.
8. 1937 Disappearance of Amelia Earhart The pioneering aviator vanishes over the Pacific attempting a round-the-world flight, an enduring mystery.
9. 1972 Simla Agreement After the 1971 war, Indira Gandhi and Zulfikar Ali Bhutto agree to settle disputes bilaterally and turn the Kashmir ceasefire line into the Line of Control.
10. 1757 The Duke of Newcastle's second premiership The Pitt-Newcastle coalition wins the decisive victories of the Seven Years War and doubles the British empire.
11. 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
12. 1874 Black Hills Expedition Custer leads a thousand men into the Lakota's sacred Black Hills, guaranteed to them by treaty; his report of gold sets off a rush that leads to the Great Sioux War.