July 2
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"Let us lay aside irrelevant differences and make our nation whole." --July 2, 1964, Lyndon B. Johnson signign the Civil Rights Act of 1964 into law. |
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Art and culture
- 1877 - John Ruskin ridicules James McNeill Whistler for the painting Nocturne in Black and Gold.
- 1932 - Peter Kürten executed by guillotine
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Births
- 1877 - Hermann Hesse, German-born writer (d. 1962)
- 1882 - Princess Marie Bonaparte, French psychoanalyst who made a psychoanalytical study of Poe (d. 1962)
- 1894 - André Kertész, a Hungarian-born photographer (d.1985)
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Deaths
- 1778 - Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Swiss philosopher of the Enlightenment (b. 1712)
- 1961 - Ernest Hemingway, American novelist, short-story writer, and journalist (b. 1899)
- 1977 - Vladimir Nabokov, a Russian-American author. (b. 1899)
- 1989 - Jean Painlevé, French director (b. 1902)
- 2022 - Peter Brook, British film director and producer (b. 1925)
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