WHAT HAPPENED ON 2. JULY
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Victor Emmanuel II of Italy enters Rome after having conquered it from the Papal States. (2. July 1871)

Charles J. Guiteau shoots and fatally wounds U.S. President James Garfield, who eventually dies from an infection on September 19. (2. July 1881)

The U.S. Congress passes the Sherman Anti-Trust Act. (2. July 1890)

Italian scientist Guglielmo Marconi obtains a patent for radio in London. (2. July 1897)

The first Zeppelin flight takes place on Lake Constance near Friedrichshafen, Germany. (2. July 1900)

The East St. Louis Riots end. (2. July 1917)

The Night of the Long Knives ends with the death of Ernst Röhm. (2. July 1934)

Amelia Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan are last heard from over the Pacific Ocean while attempting to make the first equatorial round-the-world flight. (2. July 1937)

Indian independence leader Subhas Chandra Bose is arrested and detained in Calcutta. (2. July 1940)

The Golden Pavilion at Kinkaku-ji in Kyoto, Japan burns down. (2. July 1950)

The first Wal-Mart store opens for business in Rogers, Arkansas. (2. July 1962)

U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson signs the Civil Rights Act of 1964 meant to prohibit segregation in public places. (2. July 1964)

The French military explodes a nuclear test bomb codenamed Aldébaran in Mururoa, their first nuclear test in the Pacific. (2. July 1966)

Fall of the Republic of Vietnam; Communist North Vietnam declares their union to form the Socialist Republic of Vietnam. (2. July 1976)

Rodrigo Rojas and Carmen Gloria Quintana were burnt alive during a street demonstration against the dictatorship of General Augusto Pinochet in Chile. (2. July 1986)

37 participants in an Alevi cultural and literary festival are killed when a mob of demonstrators set fire to their hotel in Sivas during a violent protest. (2. July 1993)

Vicente Fox Quesada is elected the first President of México from an opposition party, the Partido Acción Nacional, after more than 70 years of continuous rule by the Partido Revolucionario Institucional. (2. July 2000)

The AbioCor self-contained artificial heart is first implanted. (2. July 2001)

Steve Fossett becomes the first person to fly solo around the world nonstop in a balloon. (2. July 2002)

The South Kivu tank truck explosion in the Democratic Republic of the Congo kills at least 230 people. (2. July 2010)