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.

1 Events
2 Births
3 Deaths
4 Holidays and observances
5 External links

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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, 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 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 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 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 - 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! champion airs. He starts out with $37,201 and would go on to win more than two million dollars.

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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 poet, novelist (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)
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)
1922 - Charlie Sifford, American golfer
1929 - Norton Juster, American author and architect
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 - Ilayaraja, Music Composer,Tamil Nadu,India
1944 - Marvin Hamlisch, American composer and musician
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
1953 - Craig Stadler, American golfer
1954 - Dennis Haysbert, American actor
1955 - Dana Carvey, American actor and comedian
1957 - King Lizzard, Las Vegas Entertainer
1958 - Lawrence Pfohl, American professional wrestler
1959 - Lydia Lunch, American singer
1960 - Kyle Petty, American race car driver
1962 - Clyde Drexler, American basketball player
1965 - Mark Waugh, Australian cricketer
1965 - Steve Waugh, Australian cricketer
1971 - Anthony Montgomery, American actor
1972 - Wayne Brady, American actor and comedian
1974 - Gata Kamsky, American chess player
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
1989 - Freddy Adu, Ghanaian footballer

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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, 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)
1970 - Bruce McLaren, New Zealand car racer, designer, and manufacturer (b. 1937)
1970 - Giuseppe Ungaretti, Italian poet (b. 1888)
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, American film director (b. 1908)
1996 - Ray Combs, American game show host and comedian (b. 1956)
1996 - Leon Garfield, English children's author (b. 1921)
1998 - Sylvester Ritter, American professional wrestler (b. 1953)
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 - George Mikan, American basketball player (b. 1924)

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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.