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

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

• 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.

Recorded this date

• 1891 "Comrades" (Felix McGlennon & Costello)
  - George J. Gaskin
  
• 1900 "Heart Of My Heart" (w. "Alice" m. Andrew Mack)
  - Harry Macdonough
  
• 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)
  - Grace Kerns
  
• 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)
  - Revelers
  
• 1927 "Just Another Day Wasted Away" (w.m. Charles Tobias & Roy Turk )
  - Tom Waring with Waring's Pennsylvanians
  
• 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)
  - Jack Hylton & his Orchestra
  
• 1930 "Amy" (w. Schuyler Greene m. Herbert Walter?)
  - Pat O'Malley with Jack Hylton & his Orchestra
  
• 1930 "Ramblin' Down The Highway" (w.m. Jack O'Hagan)
  - Jack O'Hagan with O/Gil Dech
  
• 1931 "My Brother Makes The Noises For The Talkies" (Amberg, Raymond, Bernauer)
  - Pat O'Malley with Jack Hylton & His Orchestra
  
• 1931 "Pretty Kitty Kelly" (w. Harry Pease m. Ed G. Nelson )
  - Pat O'Malley w. chorus with Jack Hylton & His Orchestra
  
• 1931 "When The Moon Comes Over The Mountain" (w.m. Howard Johnson, Harry Woods & Kate Smith)
  - Pat O'Malley with Jack Hylton & His Orchestra
  
• 1931 "Little Girl" (w.m. Madeline Hyde & Francis Henry )
  - Paul Small with Sam Lanin & his Orchestra
  
• 1936 "Is It True What They Say About Dixie?" (w. Irving Caesar & Sammy Lerner )
  - v3 with Harry Leader
  
• 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 )
  - Alice Smith with Jim Davidson & his ABC Dance Orchestra
  
• 1938 "A Gypsy Told Me" (w. Jack Yellen m. Sam Pockrass )
  - Alice Smith with Jim Davidson's Dandies
  
• 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 )
  - Ray McKinley & Crew Chiefs with Glenn Miller & Army Air Force Band
  
• 1944 "Irresistible You" (w.m. Don Raye & Gene De Paul )
  - Johnny Desmond & Crew Chiefs with Glenn Miller & Army Air Force Band
  
• 1950 "He Leadeth Me" (Bradbury, Gilmore)
  - Jo Stafford w. Ravenscroft Quartet
  
• 1950 "Lead, Kindly Light" (w. John Henry Newman m. John Bacchus Dykes )
  - Jo Stafford w. Ravenscroft Quartet with O/Paul Weston
  
• 1950 "Rock Of Ages " (w. Augustus Montague Toplady m. Thomas Hasting )
  - Jo Stafford w. Ravenscroft Quartet with O/Paul Weston
  
• 1950 "Abide With Me" (w. Rev Henry Francis Lyte m. William Henry Monk )
  - Jo Stafford w. Ravenscroft Quartet with O/Paul Weston
  
• 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)
  - Jo Stafford & Vic Damone with O/Paul Weston
  
• 1957 "Good Nite" (w. Dorothy Jeffers & Ethel Phillips m. Bert Bender)
  - Jo Stafford & Vic Damone w. The Mellomen with O/Paul Weston
  
• 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)
  - Perry Como w. The Anita Kerr Quartet
  
• 1975 "One" (w. Edward Kleban m. Marvin Hamlisch)
  - The Company (original cast of A Chorus Line) with O/Donald Pippin
  

External links

• BBC: On This Day

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