June 2

June 2 is the 153rd day of the year (154th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 212 days remaining until the end of the year.

Events

• 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.

Births

• 926 – Murakami, Emperor of Japan (d. 967)
• 1535 – Pope Leo XI (d. 1605)
• 1731 – Martha Washington, First American first lady (d. 1802)
• 1740 – Marquis de Sade, French author (d. 1814)
• 1743 – Count Alessandro di Cagliostro, Sicilian Occultist (d. 1795)
• 1773 – John Randolph, U.S. Senator from Virginia (d. 1833)
• 1774 – William Lawson, explorer of New South Wales, Australia (d. 1850)
• 1815 – Philip Kearny, American general (d. 1862)
• 1823 – Gédéon Ouimet, French Canadian politician (d. 1905)
• 1835 – Pope Pius X (d. 1914)
• 1838 – Grand Duchess Alexandra Petrovna (d. 1900)
• 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)
• 1861 – Concordia Selander, Swedish actress (d. 1935)
• 1863 – Felix Weingartner, Yugoslavian conductor (d. 1942)
• 1865 – George Lohmann, English cricketer (d. 1901)
• 1869 – Jack O'Connor, American baseball player (d. 1937)
• 1875 – Charles Stewart Mott, automotive industrialist and mayor (d. 1973)
• 1878 – Wallace Hartley, English violinist (d. 1912)
• 1887 – Howard Johnson, American songwriter (d. 1941)
• 1891 – Thurman Arnold, American attorney and jurist (d. 1969)
• 1891 – Takijirō Ōnishi, Japanese WWII figure (d. 1945)
• 1899 – Lotte Reiniger, German film director (d. 1981)
• 1904 – Frank Runacres, English artist (d. 1974)
• 1904 – Johnny Weissmuller, American swimmer and actor (d. 1984)
• 1907 – Dorothy West, American writer (d. 1998)
• 1907 – John Lehmann, English poet, editor, and publisher (d. 1987)
• 1913 – Walter Andreas Schwarz, German singer and author (d. 1992)
• 1913 – Barbara Pym, English novelist (d. 1980)
• 1915 – Walter Tetley, American voice actor (d. 1975)
• 1915 – Alexandru Nicolschi, Romanian communist (d. 1992)
• 1917 – Heinz Sielmann, German photographer and filmmaker (d. 2006)
• 1917 – Max Showalter, American actor (d. 2000)
• 1918 – Ruth Atkinson, American cartoonist (d. 1997)
• 1918 – Kathryn Tucker Windham, American writer and storyteller
• 1919 – Nat Mayer Shapiro, American painter (d. 2005)
• 1920 – Frank G. Clement, Governor of Tennessee (d. 1969)
• 1920 – Marcel Reich-Ranicki, Polish-born critic
• 1920 – Tex Schramm, American football team president and general manager (d. 2003)
• 1920 – Johnny Speight, British television writer (d. 1998)
• 1921 – Betty Freeman, American philanthropist and photographer (d. 2009)
• 1922 – Charlie Sifford, American golfer
• 1922 – Juan Antonio Bardem, Spanish director and screenwriter (d. 2002)
• 1924 – June Callwood, Canadian journalist and activist (d. 2007)
• 1924 – Al Ruscio, American actor
• 1926 – Milo O'Shea, Irish actor
• 1926 – Chiyonoyama Masanobu, Japanese sumo wrestler, the 41st Yokozuna (d. 1977)
• 1927 – W. Watts Biggers, American novelist and animator
• 1929 – Norton Juster, American author and architect
• 1929 – Ken McGregor, Australian tennis player (d. 2007)
• 1930 – Pete Conrad, American astronaut (d. 1999)
• 1930 – Bob Lillis, baseball player
• 1931 – Larry Jackson, baseball player (d. 1990)
• 1931 – William Donaldson, American businessman and politician
• 1932 – Sammy Turner, American singer
• 1934 – Johnny Carter, American doo wop singer (d. 2009)
• 1935 – Carol Shields, American-born novelist (d. 2003)
• 1935 – Roger Brierley, English actor (d. 2005)
• 1935 – Dimitri Kitsikis, Greek turkologist
• 1937 – Sally Kellerman, American actress
• 1937 – Jimmy Jones, American singer and songwriter
• 1937 – Robert Paul, Canadian figure skater
• 1938 – Kevin Brownlow, English film historian and author
• 1940 – King Constantine II of Greece
• 1941 – Stacy Keach, American actor
• 1941 – Charlie Watts, English musician (The Rolling Stones)
• 1941 – William Guest, American singer (Gladys Knight & the Pips)
• 1941 – Jeff Winkless, American voice actor (d. 2006)
• 1942 – Maree Cheatham, American actress
• 1943 – Charles Haid, American actor
• 1944 – Marvin Hamlisch, American composer and musician
• 1945 – Jane Bonnie Newman, American politician
• 1945 – Jon Peters, American film producer and hairdresser
• 1946 – Peter Sutcliffe, English serial killer
• 1946 – Lasse Hallström, Swedish film director
• 1946 – Song Dae Kwan, Korean singer
• 1947 – Mark Elder, British opera and symphony conductor
• 1948 – Jerry Mathers, American actor
• 1949 – Heather Couper, British astronomer
• 1949 – Frank Rich, American theater critic and columnist
• 1950 – Joanna Gleason, Canadian actress and singer
• 1951 – Larry Robinson, Canadian hockey player
• 1952 – Gary Bettman, American National Hockey League commissioner
• 1953 – Keith Allen, Welsh comedian, actor, singer and writer
• 1953 – Craig Stadler, American golfer
• 1953 – Cornel West, American civil rights activist
• 1954 – Dennis Haysbert, American actor
• 1955 – Michael Steele, American musician (The Bangles)
• 1955 – Chantal Hochuli, Swiss-born socialite
• 1955 – Dana Carvey, American actor
• 1956 – Malcolm Garrett, English graphic designer
• 1956 – Jan Lammers, Dutch racing driver
• 1957 – Mark Lawrenson, English football commentator
• 1957 – Jonathan Stack, American documentary filmmaker
• 1958 – Lawrence Pfohl, American professional wrestler
• 1959 – Charlie Huddy, Canadian hockey player
• 1959 – Lydia Lunch, American singer
• 1960 – Tony Hadley, English singer (Spandau Ballet)
• 1960 – Kyle Petty, American race car driver
• 1961 – Dez Cadena, American musician (Black Flag)
• 1963 – Jim Burns, American entrepreneur
• 1964 – Caroline Link, German film director and screenwriter
• 1965 – Jim Knipfel, American autobiographer and journalist
• 1965 – Mark Waugh Australian cricketer
• 1965 – Steve Waugh, Australian cricketer
• 1966 – Pedro Guerra, Spanish songwriter and singer
• 1967 – Mike Stanton, American baseball player
• 1968 – Beetlejuice, American radio personality
• 1968 – Jon Culshaw, British comedian
• 1968 – Jason Falkner, American musician
• 1969 – Cy Chadwick, English actor
• 1970 – Andy McCollum, American football player
• 1970 – B-Real, American rapper (Cypress Hill)
• 1971 – Kateřina Jacques, Czech politician
• 1971 – Jo Koy, Filipino-American comedian
• 1971 – Anthony Montgomery, American actor
• 1972 – Wayne Brady, American actor and comedian
• 1972 – Raúl Ibáñez, American baseball player
• 1972 – Wentworth Miller, American actor
• 1972 – Simon Staho, Danish film director
• 1973 – Neifi Perez, Dominican baseball player
• 1974 – Gata Kamsky, American chess player
• 1974 – Matt Serra, American mixed martial artist
• 1976 – Earl Boykins, American basketball player
• 1976 – Martin Čech, Czech ice hockey player (d. 2007)
• 1976 – Antônio Rodrigo Nogueira, Brazilian mixed martial artist
• 1976 – Queen 'Masenate Mohato Seeiso of Lesotho
• 1976 – Tim Rice-Oxley, English musician (Keane)
• 1977 – Zachary Quinto, American actor
• 1978 – Dominic Cooper, English actor
• 1978 – Nikki Cox, American actress
• 1978 – Justin Long, American actor
• 1978 – A.J. Styles, American professional wrestler
• 1979 – Morena Baccarin, Brazilian actress
• 1980 – Fabrizio Moretti, Brazilian rock drummer (The Strokes)
• 1980 – Matt Manning, British rock bassist (The Fuegos)
• 1980 – Bobby Simmons, American basketball player
• 1980 – Abby Wambach, American footballer
• 1981 – Nikolay Davydenko, Russian tennis player
• 1981 – Chin-hui Tsao, Taiwanese baseball player
• 1981 – Velvet Sky, American professional wrestler
• 1982 – Jewel Staite, Canadian actress
• 1983 – Christopher Higgins, American ice hockey player
• 1983 – Brooke White, American singer
• 1983 – Leela James, American singer-songwriter
• 1984 – Max Boyer, Canadian professional wrestler
• 1985 – Ana Cristina, American singer, composer, and actress
• 1986 – Curtis Lofton, American football player
• 1987 – Darin Zanyar, Swedish singer
• 1987 – Maryka Holtzhausen, South African netballer
• 1987 – Sonakshi Sinha, Indian actress
• 1988 – Sergio Agüero, Argentinian footballer
• 1988 – Patrik Berglund, Swedish ice hockey player
• 1989 – Freddy Adu, Ghanaian/American footballer
• 1989 – Steven Smith, Australian cricketer
• 1990 – Brittany Curran, American actress
• 1992 – Pajtim Kasami, Swiss footballer
• 1994 – Jemma McKenzie-Brown, English actress

Deaths

• 829 – Saint Nicephorus, Patriarch of Constantinople (b. 758)
• 910 – Richilde of Provence, Queen of Western Francia (b. 845)
• 1418 – Katherine of Lancaster, wife of Henry III of Castile (b. 1373)
• 1567 – Shane O'Neill, Irish king of Ulsters (b. 1530)
• 1581 – James Douglas, 4th Earl of Morton, regent of Scotland (b. 1525)
• 1693 – John Wildman, English soldier and politician (b. 1621)
• 1701 – Madeleine de Scudéry, French writer (b. 1607)
• 1716 – Ogata Korin, Japanese painter (b. 1658)
• 1720 – Jeremiah Shepard, American minister (b. 1648)
• 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)
• 1806 – William Tate, English painter (b. 1747)
• 1833 – Simon Byrne, Irish bare-knuckle prize fighter (b. 1806)
• 1853 – Henry Trevor, 21st Baron Dacre, British peer and soldier (b. 1777)
• 1865 – Ner Alexander Middleswarth, American politician (b. 1783)
• 1875 – Józef Kremer, Polish messianistic philosopher (b. 1806)
• 1876 – Hristo Botev, Bulgarian revolutionary and poet (b. 1848)
• 1881 – Émile Littré, French lexicographer (b. 1801)
• 1882 – Giuseppe Garibaldi, Italian revolutionarist (b. 1807)
• 1901 – George Leslie Mackay, Canadian missionary (b. 1844)
• 1933 – Frank Jarvis, American athlete (b. 1878)
• 1937 – Louis Vierne, French organist and composer (b. 1870)
• 1941 – Lou Gehrig, American baseball player (b. 1903)
• 1942 – Bunny Berigan, American jazz musician (b. 1908)
• 1948 – Viktor Brack, German physician (b. 1904)
• 1948 – Karl Brandt, personal physician of Adolf Hitler (b. 1904)
• 1948 – Karl Gebhardt, German doctor (b. 1897)
• 1948 – Waldemar Hoven, German physician (b. 1903)
• 1948 – Wolfram Sievers, German SS officer (b. 1905)
• 1952 – Naum Torbov, Bulgarian architect (b. 1880)
• 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 (b. 1940)
• 1968 – André Mathieu, Quebec pianist and composer (b. 1929)
• 1969 – Leo Gorcey, American actor (b. 1917)
• 1970 – Albert Lamorisse, French film director and screenwriter (b. 1922)
• 1970 – Bruce McLaren, New Zealand car racer and designer (b. 1937)
• 1970 – Giuseppe Ungaretti, Italian poet (b. 1888)
• 1974 – Hiroshi Kazato, Japanese racing driver (b. 1949)
• 1976 – Kenneth Mason, British geographer (b. 1887)
• 1976 – Juan José Torres, former President of Bolivia (b. 1920)
• 1977 – Albert Bittlmayer, German footballer (b. 1952)
• 1977 – Stephen Boyd, Northern Irish actor (b. 1931)
• 1979 – Jim Hutton, American actor (b. 1934)
• 1982 – Fazal Ilahi Chaudhry, Pakistani politician (b. 1904)
• 1983 – Stan Rogers, Canadian musician (b. 1949)
• 1984 – Georgios Kasassoglou, Greek musician (b. 1908)
• 1986 – Aurèle Joliat, Canadian hockey player (b. 1901)
• 1987 – Anthony de Mello, Indian Jesuit priest and psychotherapist (b. 1931)
• 1987 – Sammy Kaye, American bandleader (b. 1910)
• 1987 – Andrés Segovia, Spanish guitarist (b. 1893)
• 1988 – Raj Kapoor, Indian film actor, producer and director (b. 1924)
• 1989 – Ted a'Beckett, Australian cricketer (b. 1907)
• 1990 – Jack Gilford, American actor (b. 1908)
• 1990 – Sir Rex Harrison, English actor (b. 1908)
• 1992 – Philip Dunne, American film director (b. 1908)
• 1993 – Johnny Mize, American baseball player (b. 1913)
• 1994 – David Stove, Australian philosopher (b. 1927)
• 1996 – John Alton, American cinematographer (b. 1901)
• 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, American wrestler (b. 1952)
• 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 – Frank Stagg, Baptist theologian (b. 1911)
• 2001 – Joey Maxim, American boxer (b. 1922)
• 2003 – Fred Blassie, American professional wrestler (b. 1918)
• 2004 – Loyd Sigmon, American amateur radio broadcaster (b. 1909)
• 2005 – Gunder Gundersen, Norwegian skier and sports official (b. 1930)
• 2005 – Chloe Jones, Model and pornographic actress (b. 1975)
• 2005 – Samir Kassir, Lebanese journalist and teacher (b. 1950)
• 2005 – Melita Norwood, British spy (b. 1912)
• 2006 – Keith Smith, English rugby player (b. 1952)
• 2006 – Vince Welnick, musician, keyboardist (The Grateful Dead) (b. 1951)
• 2007 – Huang Ju, Chinese Vice-Premier (b. 1938)
• 2007 – Kentarō Haneda, Japanese composer (b. 1949)
• 2008 – Bo Diddley, American musician (b. 1928)
• 2008 – Mel Ferrer, American actor, film director and film producer (b. 1917)
• 2009 – David Eddings, American fantasy writer (b. 1931)
• 2011 – Willem Duys, Dutch commentator and music producer (b. 1928)

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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