June 2

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2 June is the 153rd day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (154th in leap years), with 212 days remaining.

Events

• 455 - The Vandals enter Rome, and plunder the city for two weeks.
• 576 - Benedict I becomes Pope.
• 657 - St. Eugene I becomes Pope.
• 1615 - First Récollet missionaries arrive at Quebec City, from Rouen, France.
• 1763 - Pontiac's Rebellion: At what is now Mackinaw City, Michigan, Chippewas capture Fort Michilimackinac by diverting the garrison's attention with a game of lacrosse, then chasing a ball into the fort.
• 1774 - Intolerable Acts: The Quartering Act, requiring American colonists to let British soldiers into their homes, is reenacted.
• 1780 - The Derby horse race held for the first time.
• 1793 - Jean Paul Marat recites the names of 29 people to the French National Convention. Almost all of these are guillotined, followed by 17,000 more over the course of the next year during the Reign of Terror.
• 1800 - First smallpox vaccination in North America, at Trinity, Newfoundland.
• 1835 - P.T. Barnum and his circus begins their first tour of the United States.
• 1848 - Slavic congress in Prague begins.
• 1855 - The Portland Rum Riot occurs in Portland, Maine.
• 1865 - American Civil War ends - Forces under Confederate General Edmund Kirby Smith surrender at Galveston, Texas, becoming the last to do so.
• 1886 - U.S. President Grover Cleveland marries Frances Folsom in the White House, becoming the only president to wed in the executive mansion.
• 1896 - Guglielmo Marconi receives a patent for his newest invention: the radio.
• 1897 - Mark Twain, responding to rumors that he was dead, is quoted by the New York Journal as saying, "The report of my death was an exaggeration."
• 1909 - Alfred Deakin becomes Prime Minister of Australia for the third time.
• 1924 - U.S. President Calvin Coolidge signs Indian Citizenship Act into law, granting citizenship to all Native Americans born within the territorial limits of the United States.
• 1925 - Wally Pipp, first baseman of the New York Yankees, asks for a day off due to a headache. He is replaced in the lineup by Lou Gehrig, who also starts the next 2,128 consecutive games.
• 1935 - Baseballer Babe Ruth announces he is going to retire from the sport.
• 1946 - Birth of the Italian Republic: In a referendum Italians decide to turn Italy from a monarchy into a Republic. After this referendum the king of Italy Umberto II di Savoia is exiled.
• 1953 - Coronation of Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom, the first to be televised.
• 1955 - USSR and Yugoslavia sign the Belgrade declaration and thus normalize relations between both countries, discontinued since 1948.
• 1965 - Vietnam War: The first contingent of Australian combat troops arrives in South Vietnam.
• 1966 - Surveyor program: Surveyor 1 lands in Oceanus Procellarumon the Moon, becoming the first US spacecraft to soft land on another world.
• 1967 - Protests in West Berlin against the arrival of the Shah of Iran turn into riots, during which Benno Ohnesorg is killed by a police officer. His death results in the founding of the terrorist group Movement 2 June.
• 1969 - In Ottawa, Canada the National Arts Center opens its doors to the public for the first time.
• 1979 - Pope John Paul II visits his native Poland, becoming the first Pope to visit a Communist country.
• 1985 - Serial killer Leonard Lake is arrested near San Francisco, California for shoplifting.
• 1985 - R.J. Reynolds and Nabisco propose a merger
• 1995 - United States Air Force Captain Scott O'Grady's F-16 is shot down over Bosnia while patrolling the NATO no-fly zone.
• 1997 - Timothy McVeigh is convicted on 15 counts of murder and conspiracy for his role in the 1995 terrorist bombing of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma.
• 1998 - The CIH computer virus is discovered in Taiwan.
• 1999 - The Bhutan Broadcasting Service finally brings television transmissions to the Kingdom for the first time.
• 2003 - Europe launches its first voyage to another planet, Mars. The European Space Agency's Mars Express probe launches from the Baikonur space centre in Kazakhstan. [1]

Births

• 926 - Murakami, Emperor of Japan (d. 967)
• 1535 - Pope Leo XI (d. 1605)
• 1740 - Marquis de Sade, French author (d. 1814)
• 1773 - John Randolph, U.S. Senator from Virginia (d. 1833)
• 1835 - Pope Pius X (d. 1914)
• 1840 - Thomas Hardy, English writer (d. 1928)
• 1857 - Edward Elgar, English composer (d. 1934)
• 1857 - Karl Adolph Gjellerup, Danish writer, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1919)
• 1863 - Felix Weingartner, Yugoslavian conductor (d. 1942)
• 1865 - George Lohmann, English cricketer (d. 1901)
• 1887 - Howard Johnson, American songwriter (d. 1941)
• 1891 - Thurman Arnold, American attorney and jurist (d. 1969)
• 1899 - Lotte Reiniger, German film director (d. 1981)
• 1904 - Johnny Weissmuller, American swimmer and actor (d. 1984)
• 1907 - Dorothy West, American writer (d. 1998)
• 1913 - Barbara Pym, English novelist (d. 1980)
• 1915 - Walter Tetley, American voice actor (d. 1975)
• 1917 - Heinz Sielmann, German photographer and filmmaker
• 1920 - Marcel Reich-Ranicki, Polish critic
• 1920 - Tex Schramm, American football team president and general manager (d. 2003)
• 1920 - Frank G. Clement, U.S. governor of Tennessee (d. 1969)
• 1922 - Charlie Sifford, American golfer
• 1929 - Norton Juster, American author and architect
• 1930 - Pete Conrad, American astronaut (d. 1999)
• 1931 - "Fast Eddie" Parker, American billiards player (d. 2001)
• 1935 - Carol Shields, American-born novelist (d. 2003)
• 1936 - Sally Kellerman, American actress
• 1940 - King Constantine II of Greece
• 1941 - Stacy Keach, American actor
• 1941 - Charlie Watts, English musician (The Rolling Stones)
• 1942 - Barry Levinson, American producer
• 1943 - Charles Haid, American actor
• 1943 - Ilayaraja, Indian composer
• 1944 - Marvin Hamlisch, American composer and musician
• 1945 - Jon Peters, American film producer and hairdresser
• 1946 - Peter Sutcliffe, English murderer
• 1948 - Jerry Mathers, American actor
• 1949 - Heather Couper, British astronomer
• 1949 - Frank Rich, American theater critic and political columnist
• 1951 - Larry Robinson, Canadian hockey player
• 1952 - Gary Bettman, American NHL Commissioner
• 1952 - Pete Farndon, British bassist (The Pretenders) (d. 1983)
• 1953 - Craig Stadler, American golfer
• 1954 - Dennis Haysbert, American actor
• 1955 - Dana Carvey, American actor and comedian
• 1957 - King Lizzard, American entertainer
• 1958 - Lawrence Pfohl, American professional wrestler
• 1959 - Lydia Lunch, American singer
• 1960 - Kyle Petty, American race car driver
• 1960 - Tony Hadley, English singer
• 1962 - Clyde Drexler, American basketball player
• 1965 - Mark Waugh, Australian cricketer
• 1965 - Steve Waugh, Australian cricketer
• 1968 - Jon Culshaw, British impressionist and comedian
• 1971 - Anthony Montgomery, American actor
• 1972 - Wayne Brady, American actor and comedian
• 1974 - Gata Kamsky, American chess player
• 1976 - Tim Rice-Oxley, English musician, (Keane)
• 1976 - Earl Boykins, American basketball player
• 1978 - Justin Long, American actor
• 1978 - A.J. Styles, American professional wrestler
• 1982 - Andres Nuiamäe, Estonian soldier (killed in action) (d. 2004)
• 1982 - Jewel Staite, Canadian actress
• 1988 - Julianna Maccarone, Famous lesbian actress
• 1989 - Freddy Adu, Ghanaian-born footballer

Deaths

• 829 - Saint Nicephorus, Patriarch of Constantinople (b. 758)
• 1418 - Katherine of Lancaster, queen of Henry III of Castile
• 1567 - Shane O'Neill, Irish chieftain
• 1581 - James Douglas, 4th Earl of Morton, regent of Scotland
• 1693 - John Wildman, English soldier and politician
• 1701 - Madeleine de Scudéry, French writer (b. 1607)
• 1716 - Ogata Korin, Japanese painter
• 1754 - Ebenezer Erskine, Scottish religious dissenter (b. 1680)
• 1761 - Jonas Alströmer, Swedish industrialist (b. 1685)
• 1785 - Jean Paul de Gua de Malves, French mathematician (b. 1713)
• 1876 - Hristo Botev, Bulgarian revolutionary (b. 1848)
• 1882 - Giuseppe Garibaldi, Italian revolutionarist (b. 1807)
• 1901 - George Leslie Mackay, Canadian missionary (b. 1844)
• 1933 - Frank Jarvis, American athlete (b. 1878)
• 1941 - Lou Gehrig, American baseball player (b. 1903)
• 1956 - Jean Hersholt, Danish actor and humanitarian (b. 1886)
• 1961 - George S. Kaufman, American playwright (b. 1889)
• 1962 - Vita Sackville-West, English writer, and gardener (b. 1892)
• 1967 - Benno Ohnesorg, German student of Romance languages and literature (b. 1940)
• 1969 - Leo Gorcey, American actor (b. 1917)
• 1970 - Bruce McLaren, New Zealand car racer, designer, and manufacturer (b. 1937)
• 1970 - Giuseppe Ungaretti, Italian poet (b. 1888)
• 1977 - Stephen Boyd, Northern Irish actor (b. 1931)
• 1979 - Jim Hutton, American actor (b. 1934)
• 1982 - Fazal Ilahi Chaudhry, Pakistani politician (b. 1904)
• 1987 - Sammy Kaye, American bandleader (b. 1910)
• 1987 - Andrés Segovia, Spanish guitarist (b. 1893)
• 1990 - Rex Harrison, English actor (b. 1908)
• 1990 - Frederick Mellinger, founder of Frederick's of Hollywood (b. 1913)
• 1992 - Phillip Dunne, American film director (b. 1908)
• 1993 - Johnny Mize, American baseball player (b. 1913)
• 1996 - Ray Combs, American game show host and comedian (b. 1956)
• 1996 - Leon Garfield, English children's author (b. 1921)
• 1996 - Amos Tversky, Israeli psychologist (b. 1937)
• 1997 - Doc Cheatham, American jazz trumpeter (b. 1905)
• 1998 - Sylvester Ritter ("Junkyard Dog"), American professional wrestler (b. 1953)
• 1999 - Junior Braithwaite, Jamaican musician (The Wailers) (b. 1949)
• 2000 - Svyatoslav Fyodorov, Russian ophthalmologist (b. 1927)
• 2000 - Gerald Whitrow, British mathematician (b. 1912)
• 2001 - Imogene Coca, American actress (b. 1908)
• 2001 - Joey Maxim, American boxer (b. 1922)
• 2003 - Fred Blassie, American professional wrestler (b. 1918)
• 2005 - Samir Kassir, Lebanese journalist and teacher (b. 1950)

Holidays and observances

• The Greek Orthodox Church commemorates Saint Nicephorus' death - see also March 13
• Italy's Festa della Repubblica (Republic Day), which commemorates the birth of the Repubblica Italiana and the end of the monarchy.
• Xenia name day in Slovakia.

External links

• BBC: On This Day
• The New York Times: On This Day
• On This Day in Canada

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