On July 2
On July 2, 3 pivotal events are recorded in the Human Saga, including U.S. Civil Rights Act of 1964 signed into law (1964).
On this day
On 2 July 1964 President Lyndon B. Johnson signed the Civil Rights Act of 1964, landmark legislation that outlawed discrimination on the basis of race, colour, religion, sex or national origin.
On 2 July 1997 Thailand, depleted of the foreign reserves needed to defend its currency peg, was forced to float the baht, triggering a regional financial crisis that spread rapidly across East and Southeast Asia.
On 2 July 2025, days before his 90th birthday, the 14th Dalai Lama, Tenzin Gyatso, declared that the centuries-old institution of the Dalai Lama would continue after his death and that the sole authority to identify his reincarnation…