June
2
Events
June
2
455 – Sack
of Rome: Vandals enter Rome, and plunder the city for two weeks
1098 – First Crusade: The first Siege of Antioch ends as Crusader
forces take the city. The second siege would later start on
June 7.
1615 – First Récollet missionaries arrive at Quebec City, from
Rouen, France.
1676 – Franco-Dutch War: France ensured the supremacy of its
naval fleet for the remainder of the war with its victory in
the Battle of Palermo.
1692 – Bridget Bishop is the first person to go to trial in
the Salem witch trials in Salem, Massachusetts. Found guilty,
she is hanged on June 10.
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 is enacted, allowing
a governor in colonial America to house British soldiers in
uninhabited houses, outhouses, barns, or other buildings if
suitable quarters are not provided.
1793 – French Revolution: François Hanriot, leader of the Parisian
National Guard, arrests 22 Girondists selected by Jean-Paul
Marat, setting the stage for the Reign of Terror.
1805 – Napoleonic Wars: A Franco-Spanish fleet recaptures Diamond
Rock, an uninhabited island at the entrance to the bay leading
to Fort-de-France, from the British.
1835 – P. T. Barnum and his circus start their first tour of
the United States.
1848 – The Slavic congress in Prague begins.
1855 – The Portland Rum Riot occurs in Portland, Maine.
1866 – Fenian raids: Fenians are victorious in both the Battle
of Ridgeway and the Battle of Fort Erie.
1876 – Hristo Botev, a national revolutionary of Bulgaria, is
killed in Stara Planina
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 applies for a patent for his newest
invention: the radio.
1909 – Alfred Deakin becomes Prime Minister of Australia for
the third time.
1910 – Charles Rolls, co-founder of Rolls-Royce Limited, becomes
the first man to make a non-stop double crossing of the English
Channel by plane.
1919 – Anarchists simultaneously set off bombs in eight separate
U.S. cities.
1924 – U.S. President Calvin Coolidge signs the Indian Citizenship
Act into law, granting citizenship to all Native Americans born
within the territorial limits of the United States.
1941 – World War II: German paratoopers murder Greek civilians
in the village of Kondomari.
1946 – Birth of the Italian Republic: In a referendum, Italians
vote to turn Italy from a monarchy into a Republic. After the
referendum the king of Italy Umberto II di Savoia is exiled.
1953 – The coronation of Queen Elizabeth II, who is crowned
Queen of the United Kingdom, Canada, Australia, New Zealand
and Her Other Realms and Territories & Head of the Commonwealth,
the first major international event to be televised.
1955 – The USSR and Yugoslavia sign the Belgrade declaration
and thus normalize relations between both countries, discontinued
since 1948.
1962 – During the 1962 FIFA World Cup, police had to intervene
multiple times in fights between Chilean and Italian players
in one of the most violent games in football history.
1966 – Surveyor program: Surveyor 1 lands in Oceanus Procellarum
on the Moon, becoming the first U.S. spacecraft to soft land
on another world.
1967 – Luis Monge is executed in Colorado's gas chamber, in
the last pre-Furman execution in the United States.
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.
1979 – Pope John Paul II first official visit to his native
Poland, becoming the first Pope to visit a Communist country.
1983 – After an emergency landing because of an in-flight fire,
twenty-three passengers aboard Air Canada Flight 797 are killed
when a flashover occurs as the plane's doors open. Because of
this incident, numerous new safety regulations are put in place.
1990 – The Lower Ohio Valley tornado outbreak spawns 66 confirmed
tornadoes in Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, and Ohio, killing
12. Petersburg, Indiana, is the hardest-hit town in the outbreak,
with 6 deaths.
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 – In Denver, Colorado, Timothy McVeigh is convicted on
15 counts of murder and conspiracy for his role in the 1995
bombing of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma
City, Oklahoma.
1999 – The Bhutan Broadcasting Service 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 center in Kazakhstan.
2004 – Ken Jennings begins his 74-game winning streak on the
syndicated game show Jeopardy!
2010 – Derrick Bird goes on a killing spree in Cumbria, killing
13 and injuring 11, see Cumbria shootings.
Holidays
and observances
Children's
Day (North Korea)
Christian Feast Day:
Alexander (martyr)
Blandina
Elmo
Felix of Nicosia
Marcellinus and Peter
Pope Eugene I
Pothinus
June 2 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
Coronation Day of Fourth Druk Gyalpo (Bhutan)
Day of Hristo Botev and the people died for the freedom and
the independence of Bulgaria (Bulgaria)
Festa della Repubblica, commemorates the birth of the Repubblica
Italiana and the end of the monarchy. (Italy)
Isabel Province Day (Isabel Province, Solomon Islands)
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