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Civil Rights Act signed into law


July 2 – President Lyndon B Johnson signs the Civil Rights Act into law, abolishing racial segregation in the United States of America. It was the most sweeping civil rights legislation since Reconstruction.

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Great Train Robbers Sentenced

Ronnie Biggs, Buckingham Constabulary, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons As noted elsewhere, on August 8, 1963, a gang stopped the Glasgo...