Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/July 2

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 * 706 – The bodies of Emperor Gaozong of Tang and Empress Wu Zetian were interred in the Qianling Mausoleum.
 * 1816 – The FRENCH FRIGATE Méduse 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).
 * 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.
 * 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 – A Mw&#8239;6.1 strike-slip earthquake killed at least 35 people and injured 276 others in the Indonesian province of Aceh on the northern end of Sumatra.
 * 2013 – The International Astronomical Union announced that the fourth and fifth moons of Pluto to be discovered would be named Kerberos and Styx, respectively.
 * 2020 – A landslide at a jade mine in Hpakant killed 175-200 miners, the deadliest mining accident in Burmese history.
 * Born/died this day: | Denmark Vesey |d|1822| Walter Potter |b|1835| Robert Ridgway |b|1850| Wilhelm Cuno |b|1876| 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| Ernest Hemingway |d|1961| Alicia Patterson |d|1963| Joseph Fielding Smith|d|1972| Sam Hornish Jr. |b|1979| Alex Morgan|b|1989| Douglas Engelbart|d|2013

July 2


 * 626 – Li Shimin led his forces to assassinate his rival brothers in a coup for the imperial throne of Tang China.
 * 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, BWV10, based on the German Magnificat.
 * 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.
 * 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.