THE DAY IN HISTORY · JULY 2
July 2 in history
What happened on July 2: 1 moment from the Maps of History atlases, in 1975, each linked to the map that shows it.
— World Conference on Women, Mexico City
19 Jun – 2 Jul 1975 — The first UN World Conference on Women, for International Women’s Year, gathers delegations from 133 states. At the parallel Tribune of 4,000–6,000 activists, the Bolivian miner’s wife Domitila Barrios de Chungara insists that poverty, not men, is her people’s first enemy.
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