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June 2 is the 153rd day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (154th in leap years ), with 212 days remaining.
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1 Events 2 Births 3 Deaths 4 Holidays and observances
5 External links
Events 455 - The Vandals enter Rome , and plunder the city for two weeks.
575 - 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 is 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 .
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 .
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 .
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 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 .
1975 - French sex workers occupied a Lyon church in protest against excessive fines and taxes, as well as a lack of police action against violence, thereby sparking the birth of the modern sex worker rights movement.
1979 - Pope John Paul II visits his native Poland , becoming the first Pope to visit a Communist country.
1992 - Denmark rejects the Maastricht Treaty by a thin margin in a national referendum.
1995 - United States Air Force Captain Scott O'Grady 's F-16 is shot down over Bosnia while patrolling the NATO no-fly zone.
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 .
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 )
1823 - Gédéon Ouimet , French Canadian politician (d. 1905 )
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 )
1869 - Jack O'Connor , baseball player (d. 1937 )
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 - Frank Runacres , English artist (d. 1974 )
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-born critic
1920 - Tex Schramm , American football team president and general manager (d. 2003 )
1920 - Frank G. Clement , Governor of Tennessee (d. 1969 )
1922 - Charlie Sifford , American golfer
1924 - June Callwood , Canadian jounalist, author & social activist
1926 - Milo O'Shea , Irish actor
1929 - Norton Juster , American author and architect
1930 - Pete Conrad , American astronaut (d. 1999 )
1930 - Bob Lillis , baseball player
1931 - Larry Jackson , baseball player (d. 1990 )
1935 - Carol Shields , American-born novelist (d. 2003 )
1935 - Roger Brierley , English actor (d. 2005 )
1935 - Dimitri Kitsikis , Greek turkologist, professor of International Relations and Geopolitics at the University of Ottawa
1936 - Sally Kellerman , American actress
1937 - Jimmy Jones (singer) , American singer and songwriter
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 )
1943 - Charles Haid , American actor
1943 - Ilaiyaraaja , Indian composer
1944 - Marvin Hamlisch , American composer and musician
1945 - Jon Peters , American film producer and hairdresser
1946 - Peter Sutcliffe , English murderer
1946 - Lasse Hallström , Swedish film director
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 political columnist
1951 - Larry Robinson , Canadian hockey player
1952 - Gary Bettman , American National Hockey League commissioner
1953 - Craig Stadler , American golfer
1954 - Dennis Haysbert , American actor
1955 - Dana Carvey , American actor and comedian
1955 - Michael Steele , American musician (The Bangles )
1955 - Chantal Hochuli , Swiss-born socialite
1956 - Mani Ratnam , Indian director
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 (Spandau Ballet )
1961 - Dez Cadena , American musician
1965 - Jim Knipfel , American autobiographer and journalist
1965 - Mark and Steve Waugh , Australian cricketers
1967 - Mike Stanton , baseball player
1968 - Jon Culshaw , British comedian
1970 - B Real , rapper
1971 - Anthony Montgomery , American actor
1971 - Kateřina Jacques , Czech politician
1972 - Wayne Brady , American actor and comedian
1972 - Wentworth Miller , American actor
1973 - Neifi Perez , Dominican-born baseball player
1974 - Chris Harris , American professional wrestler
1974 - Gata Kamsky , American chess player
1975 - Lar Janke , American Entrepeneur, Founder of LarTek.Net and Strip-Ts.com
1976 - Earl Boykins , American basketball player
1976 - Tim Rice-Oxley , English musician (Keane )
1977 - Zachary Quinto , American actor
1978 - Nikki Cox , American actress
1978 - Justin Long , American actor
1978 - A.J. Styles , American professional wrestler
1980 - Fabrizio Moretti , American rock drummer (The Strokes )
1982 - Jewel Staite , Canadian actress
1983 - Christopher Higgins , American hockey player
1985 - Yang Yu , Chinese swimmer
1988 - Sergio Agüero , Argentinian footballer
1988 - Patrik Berglund , Swedish hockey player
1990 - Robert Langdon , American King
Deaths 829 - Saint Nicephorus , Patriarch of Constantinople (b. 758 )
1418 - Katherine of Lancaster , wife 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 )
1833 - Simon Byrne , Irish bare-knuckle prize fighter (b. 1806 )
1865 - Ner Alexander Middleswarth , American politician (b. 1783 )
1875 - Józef Kremer , Polish messianistic philosopher (b. 1806 )
1876 - Hristo Botev , Bulgarian revolutionary (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 )
1941 - Lou Gehrig , American baseball player (b. 1903 )
1948 - Karl Gebhardt , Nazi doctor (b. 1897 )
1948 - Karl Brandt , personal physician of Adolf Hitler (b. 1904 )
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 )
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 )
1984 - Georgios Kasassoglou , Greek musician (b. 1908 )
1986 - Aurel Joliat , Canadian hockey player (b. 1901 )
1987 - Sammy Kaye , American bandleader (b. 1910 )
1987 - Andrés Segovia , Spanish guitarist (b. 1893 )
1988 - Marcus Bell
1989 - Ted a'Beckett , Australian cricketer (b. 1907 )
1990 - King Joesph the Millionth , Actor (b. 1908 )
1990 - Rex Harrison , English actor (b. 1908 )
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 - John Alton , American cinematographer (b. 1901 )
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 professional 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 - Joey Maxim , American boxer (b. 1922 )
2003 - Fred Blassie , American professional wrestler (b. 1918 )
2005 - Samir Kassir , Lebanese journalist and teacher (b. 1950 )
2005 - Melita Norwood , British spy (b. 1912 )
2005 - Chloe Jones , Model and pornographic actress (b. 1975 )
2006 - Vince Welnick , musician, keyboardist (The Grateful Dead ) (b. 1951 )
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