June 2
June 2 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. They depart with countless valuables, spoils of the Temple in Jerusalem brought to Rome by Titus , and the Empress Eudoxia and her daughters Eudocia and Placidia .
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, was first held.
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 first tour of the U.S.
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 - 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 was 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 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 fights, during which young 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 - Voters in California approved California Proposition 227 , abolishing that state's bilingual education program.
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 - Thousands of defeated Iraqi troops march on the U.S. occupation headquarters in Baghdad , demanding pay.
2004 - The first episode of Ken Jennings ' incredible reign as Jeopardy! Births
1535 - Pope Leo XI (d. 1605 )
1740 - Marquis de Sade , French author (d. 1814 )
1773 - John Randolph , US Senator from Virginia (d. 1833 )
1821 - Ion C. Bratinau , Romanian statesman (d. 1891 )
1835 - Pope Pius X (d. 1914 )
1836 - Mily Balakirev , Russian composer (d. 1910 )
1840 - Thomas Hardy , English poet, novelist (d. 1928 )
1857 - Edward Elgar , English composer (d. 1934 )
1863 - Felix Weingartner , Yugoslavian conductor (d. 1942 )
1865 - George Lohmann , Surrey bowler (d. 1901 )
1891 - Thurman Arnold , American attorney and jurist (d. 1969 )
1899 - Lotte Reiniger , German film director (d. 1981 )
1904 - Johnny Weissmuller , American swimmer, actor (d. 1984 )
1913 - Barbara Pym , English novelist (d. 1980 )
1917 - Heinz Sielmann , scientific publicist
1920 - Marcel Reich-Ranicki , Polish critic
1922 - Charlie Sifford , first African American golfer on the PGA TOUR
1929 - Norton Juster , American author and architect
1941 - Stacy Keach , American actor
1941 - Charlie Watts , English rock musician ("The Rolling Stones ")
1942 - Barry Levinson , American producer
1943 - Peter Heisterkamp , aka Palermo , artist (d. 1977 )
1944 - Marvin Hamlisch , American composer, musician
1946 - Peter Sutcliffe , the Yorkshire Ripper
1948 - Jerry Mathers , American actor
1948 - Todd Rundgren , American singer and producer
1951 - Larry Robinson , Canadian hockey player
1953 - Craig Stadler , American golfer
1955 - Dana Carvey , American actor, comedian
1958 - Lex Luger , professional wrestler
1960 - Kyle Petty , NASCAR driver
1962 - Clyde Drexler , American basketball player
1971 - Anthony Montgomery , American actor
1972 - Wayne Brady , American actor, comedian
1976 - Earl Boykins , American basketball player
1989 - Freddy Adu , Ghanaian footballer D.C. United
Deaths
829 - Saint Nicephorus , Patriarch of Constantinople
1716 - Ogata Korin , Japanese painter (b. c. 1657 )
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 , playwright (b. 1889 )
1962 - Vita Sackville-West , English writer, gardener (b. 1892 )
1967 - Benno Ohnesorg , German student of Romance languages and literature (b. 1940 )
1969 - Thurman Arnold , American attorney and jurist (b. 1891 )
1970 - Bruce McLaren , New Zealand car racer, designer, manufacturer (b. 1937 )
1982 - Fazal Ilahi Chaudhry , Pakistani politician (b. 1904 )
1987 - Sammy Kaye , American bandleader (b. 1910 )
1987 - Andres Segovia , Spanish guitarist (b. 1893 )
1990 - Rex Harrison , English actor (b. 1908 )
1992 - Phillip Dunne , director (b. 1908 )
1996 - Ray Combs , American game show host, comedian (b. 1956 )
1996 - Leon Garfield , children's author (d. 1921 )
2001 - Imogene Coca , American actress (b. 1908 )
2001 - Joey Maxim , American boxer
2003 - Fred Blassie , American professional wrestler (b. 1918 )
Holidays and observances
Recorded this date
1891 "Comrades" (Felix McGlennon & Costello) 1900 "Heart Of My Heart" (w. "Alice" m. Andrew Mack) 1910 "I've Got Rings On My Fingers" (w. R. P. Weston & F. J. Barnes m. Maurice Scott)Billy Murray 1913 "Sweethearts" (w. Robert B. Smith m. Victor Herbert ) 1920 "Chili Bean" (w. Lew Brown m. Albert Von Tilzer )Frank Crumit with Paul Biese Trio 1921 "Learn To Smile" (w. Otto Harbach m. Louis A. Hirsch )Paul Whiteman & his Orchestra 1926 "Valencia" (w. (Fr) Lucien Jean Boyer & Jacques Charles (Eng) Clifford Grey m. Jose Padilla ) 1927 "Just Another Day Wasted Away" (w.m. Charles Tobias & Roy Turk ) 1930 "Dancing With Tears In My Eyes" (w. Al Dubin m. Joe Burke )Ruth Etting 1930 "When You're Smiling" (w.m. Mark Fisher, Joe Goodwin & Larry Shay)Pat O'Malley with Jack Hylton & his Orchestra 1930 "Stein Song (Maine)" (w. Lincoln Colcord m. E. A. Fenstad) 1930 "Amy" (w. Schuyler Greene m. Herbert Walter?) 1930 "Ramblin' Down The Highway" (w.m. Jack O'Hagan) 1931 "My Brother Makes The Noises For The Talkies" (Amberg, Raymond, Bernauer) 1931 "Pretty Kitty Kelly" (w. Harry Pease m. Ed G. Nelson ) 1931 "When The Moon Comes Over The Mountain" (w.m. Howard Johnson , Harry Woods & Kate Smith ) 1931 "Little Girl" (w.m. Madeline Hyde & Francis Henry ) 1936 "Is It True What They Say About Dixie?" (w. Irving Caesar & Sammy Lerner ) 1936 "Sing Me A Swing Song" (w. Stanley Adams m. Hoagy Carmichael )Ella Fitzgerald with Chick Webb & his Band 1938 "Annie Laurie " (w. William Douglas m. Lady John Douglas Scott )Jim Davidson & his ABC Dance Orchestra 1938 "A Gypsy Told Me" (w. Jack Yellen m. Sam Pockrass ) 1941 "J'Attendrai" (w. (Fr) Louis Poterat (Eng) Anna Sosenko m. Dino Olivieri)Jean Sablon with Leonard Joy 1944 "Goin' Home" (w. Williams Arms Fisher m. Anton Dvorak )Glenn Miller & Army Air Force Band 1944 "A Hot Time In The Town Of Berlin" (w. John De Vries m. Joe Bushkin ) 1944 "Irresistible You" (w.m. Don Raye & Gene De Paul ) 1950 "He Leadeth Me" (Bradbury, Gilmore)Jo Stafford w. Ravenscroft Quartet 1950 "Lead, Kindly Light " (w. John Henry Newman m. John Bacchus Dykes ) 1950 "Rock Of Ages " (w. Augustus Montague Toplady m. Thomas Hasting ) 1950 "Abide With Me " (w. Rev Henry Francis Lyte m. William Henry Monk ) 1951 "I'm A Fool To Want You" (w.m. Jack Wolf, Joel Herron & Frank Sinatra )Dinah Washington with Ike Carpenter & his Orchestra 1957 "Silence Is Golden" (J. Fulton, L. Steele)Vic Damone with O/Paul Weston 1957 "Good Nite" (w. Dorothy Jeffers & Ethel Phillips m. Bert Bender) 1959 "April In Paris" (w. E. Y. Harburg m. Vernon Duke )Dinah Shore with piano André Previn 1965 "Summer Wind" (w. (Germ) Hans Bradtke w. (Eng) Johnny Mercer , m. Heinz Meier)Perry Como w. The Anita Kerr Quartet 1965 "Oowee, Oowee" (w.m. Sydney Robin, Ramona Marie Witry, Ronald Lawrence & Bonita Ann Andre) 1975 "One" (w. Edward Kleban m. Marvin Hamlisch )A Chorus Line ) with O/Donald Pippin External links
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