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July 2

James A. Garfield

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, BWV 10, 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.

Walter Potter (b. 1835)
Erich Topp (b. 1914)
Joseph Fielding Smith (d. 1972)
Sam Hornish Jr. (b. 1979)

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