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06 02 June 2 is the 153rd day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (154th in leap years), with 212 days remaining..
0455 06 02 Gaiseric and 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.
0575 06 02 Benedict I begins his reign as Catholic Pope
0657 06 02 St Eugene I ends his reign as Catholic Pope
0815 06 02 Saint Nicephorus. dies
1129 06 02 Fulco V's son Godfried marries king Henry I's daughter Mathildis
1615 06 02 First RŽeacute;collet missionaries arrive at Quebec City, from Rouen, France.
1619 06 02 England & Netherlands signs treaty about business in the Indies
1625 06 02 Prince Frederik Henry sworn in as viceroy of Holland/Zealand
1627 06 02 English king Charles I establishes Guyana Company
1633 06 02 Prince Frederik Henry conquerors Fort Rhine at Cologne
1676 06 02 Battle at Palermo: French beats Dutch/Spanish fleet
1697 06 02 Monarch August van Saksen becomes Catholic
1716 06 02 Ogata Korin, Japanese painter. dies
1746 06 02 Russia & Austria sign agreements
1774 06 02 England passed Quartering Act, mandating Colonists must board English troops in their homes
1780 06 02 Anti Catholic demonstration attacks parliament in London
1797 06 02 First ascent of Great Mountain (4,622') in Adirondack NY (C Broadhead)
1800 06 02 First smallpox vaccination in North America, at Trinity, Newfoundland.
1834 06 02 5th national black convention meet (NYC)
1835 06 02 P T Barnum & his circus begin first tour of US
1851 06 02 First US alcohol prohibition law enacted (Maine)
1857 06 02 James Gibbs, Va, patents chain-stitch single-thread sewing machine
1858 06 02 Donati Comet first seen named after it's discoverer
1862 06 02 General Robert E Lee takes command of Confederate armies of E VA & NC
1862 06 02 Raid at Early's: Maryland towards Washington DC
1863 06 02 Harriet Tubman leads Union guerrillas into Maryland, freeing slaves
1864 06 02 Battle of Cold Harbour, Day 2
1865 06 02 American Civil War comes to an end with surrender of Trans-Mississippi Dept forces of General Edmund Kirby Smith at Galveston, Texas.
1866 06 02 Renegade Irish Fenians surrender to US forces
1869 06 02 Cleveland's Forest City play their first game (vs Cin Red Stockings)
1873 06 02 Construction begins on Clay St (SF) for world's first cable railroad
1875 06 02 James Augustine Healey became first Black Catholic Bishop in US
1881 06 02 Haarlem-Zandvoort Railway opens
1882 06 02 Pierre de Brazza festival welcomed in Paris
1883 06 02 First night baseball under lights, Ft Wayne Indiana
1883 06 02 Chicago's El opens to traffic
1886 06 02 President Grover Cleveland marries Frances Folsom in the White House; first to wed during presidency.
1896 06 02 30th Belmont: Henry Griffin aboard Hastings wins in 2:24«
1897 06 02 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".
1899 06 02 Black Americans observed day of fasting to protest lynchings
1901 06 02 Benjamin Adams arrested for playing golf on Sunday (NY)
1901 06 02 George Leslie Mackay, missionary. dies
1902 06 02 2nd statewide initiative & referendum law adopted, in Oregon
1903 06 02 Netherlands Korfball League forms
1903 06 02 Pirates win a triple header from Dodgers
1904 06 02 Professor Schron finds microbe that causes photosynthesis
1908 06 02 33rd Preakness: Eddie Dugan aboard Royal Tourist wins in 1:46.4
1909 06 02 43rd Belmont: Eddie Dugan aboard Joe Madden wins in 2:21.6
1910 06 02 First roundtrip flight over English Channel (C S Rolls, England)
1910 06 02 Pygmies discovered in Dutch New Guinea
1912 06 02 Carl Laemmle creates Universal Studios.
1913 06 02 First strike settlement mediated by US Dept of Labor-RR clerks
1913 06 02 Demonstrations for general voting right in Neth
1914 06 02 Glenn Curtiss flies his Langley Aerodrome
1916 06 02 German troops under Lt Rackow take Fort Vaux
1919 06 02 Pulitzer prize awarded to Carl Sandburg (Cornhuskers)
1920 06 02 Pulitzer prize awarded to Eugene O'Neill (Beyond the Horizon)
1922 06 02 Suffy McInnis (first base) ends an errorless string of 1,700 chances
1924 06 02 Snyder Act: Government of the United States confers citizenship on all Native Americans born within the territorial limits of the country.
1925 06 02 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, a record.
1928 06 02 Velveeta Cheese created by Kraft
1930 06 02 Sarah Dickson becomes first woman Presbyterian elder in US, Cincinnati
1932 06 02 Franz von Papen Cabinet of the Baron premieres
1933 06 02 FDR authorizes first swimming pool built inside the White House
1933 06 02 WNJ-AM in Newark NJ goes off the air
1935 06 02 Babe Ruth, 40, announces his retirement as a player
1936 06 02 Gen Anastasio Somoza takes over as dictator of Nicaragua
1940 06 02 Heavy German bombing on Dunkirk beach
1941 06 02 Lou Gehrig, New York Yankees baseball player (b. 1903). dies
1942 06 02 Red Sox star Ted Williams enlists as a Navy aviator
1943 06 02 99th Pursuit Squadron flies first combat mission (over Italy)
1943 06 02 German assault on Sebastopol Krim, begins
1944 06 02 Generals Eisenhower & Montgomery dine in Portsmouth
1944 06 02 Judendurchgangslager Vught disbands
1946 06 02 In a plebiscite Italians decide to turn Italy from a monarchy into a Republic. After this referendum the king of Italy Umberto II di Savoia was exiled. (National Day)
1947 06 02 Louisiana Lady opens at Century Theater NYC for 4 performances
1947 06 02 Hungarian premier Ferenc Nagy resigns
1949 06 02 Transjordan renamed Jordan
1950 06 02 ST Louis Browns pitcher Harry Dorish swipes home vs Wash Senators
1951 06 02 Pope Pius XII publishes encyclical Evangelii praecones
1952 06 02 650,000 metal workers go on strike in US
1952 06 02 Maurice Olley of General Motors begins designing the Corvette
1952 06 02 Television broadcasting begins in Canada, at Montreal, Quebec.
1953 06 02 Coronation of Queen Elizabeth II in Westminster Abbey; first to be televised.
1954 06 02 John Costello (Cons) becomes premier of Ireland
1954 06 02 Senator Joseph McCarthy charges that Communists have infiltrated the Central Intelligence Agency.
1956 06 02 Yugoslav president Tito visits Moscow
1956 06 02 Jean Hersholt, actor and humanitarian. dies
1957 06 02 Fay Crocker wins LPGA Triangle Round Robin Golf Tournament
1957 06 02 US TV interviews Khrushchev
1958 06 02 Alan Freed joins WABC (NYC) radio
1958 06 02 Brooks Robinson, hits into first of record 4 triple plays
1958 06 02 Yankees pitcher Whitey Ford fans 6 in a row to tie an AL record
1959 06 02 Allen Ginsberg writes his poem Lysergic Acid, SF
1960 06 02 Broadway theaters close (labor dispute between owners & Actors Equity)
1961 06 02 George S. Kaufman, playwright. dies
1962 06 02 32nd French Mens Tennis: Rod Laver beats Roy Emerson (36 26 63 97 62)
1963 06 02 Mickey Wright wins LPGA Babe Didrikson-Zaharias Golf Open
1964 06 02 Follies Bergere opens at Broadway Theater NYC for 191 performances
1964 06 02 Lal Bahadur Sjastri elected premier of India
1964 06 02 Rolling Stones first US concert tour debuts in Lynn, Mass
1965 06 02 2nd of 2 cyclones in less than a month kills 35,000 (Ganges R India)
1965 06 02 Vietnam War: The first contingent of Australian combat troops arrives in South Vietnam.
1966 06 02 US Surveyor 1 lands in Oceanus Procellarum; first lunar soft-landing
1967 06 02 Race riots in Roxbury section of Boston
1967 06 02 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 .
1968 06 02 Canadians must get govt permission to export silver
1968 06 02 WBLG (now WTVQ) TV channel 62 in Lexington, KY (ABC) first broadcast
1969 06 02 Australian aircraft carrier Melbourne slices US destroyer Frank E Evans in half, killing 74 (South Vietnam)
1969 06 02 Murle Lindstrom wins LPGA O'Sullivan Ladies Golf Open
1970 06 02 Bruce McLaren, car racer, designer, manufacturer . dies
1971 06 02 Ajax wins 16th Europe Cup 1
1973 06 02 Nash at Nine closes at Helen Hayes Theater NYC after 21 performances
1974 06 02 Judy Rankin wins LPGA Baltimore Golf Classic
1974 06 02 Mali adopts constitution
1974 06 02 Malta's constitution goes into effect
1975 06 02 First time snow fell in London in June
1975 06 02 James A Healy, first black Roman Catholic bishop, consecrated (Maine)
1975 06 02 VP Rockefeller finds no pattern of illegal activities at CIA
1976 06 02 East-Timor People's Assembly accepts annexation through Indonesia
1977 06 02 NJ allows casino gambling in Atlantic City
1979 06 02 NASA launches space vehicle S-198
1979 06 02 Pope John Paul II visits Poland
1980 06 02 Your Arm's Too Short to Box... opens at Ambassador NYC for 149 perfs
1981 06 02 Barbara Walters asks Katharine Hepburn what kind of tree she would be
1982 06 02 Blues in the Night opens at Rialto Theater NYC for 53 performances
1982 06 02 Fazal Ilahi Chaudhry, Pakistani politician. dies
1983 06 02 1980 movie Attack of the Killer Tomatoes, released in Germany
1983 06 02 Toilet catches fire on Air Canada's DC-9, 23 die at Cincinnati
1984 06 02 Welcome To Fun Zone hosted by Dr Demento airs on NBC-TV
1984 06 02 Actress Jill Ireland has a radical mastectomy
1984 06 02 Flight readiness firing of Discovery's main engines
1985 06 02 31st LPGA Championship won by Nancy Lopez
1985 06 02 39th Tony Awards: Biloxi Blues & Big River win
1985 06 02 Andreas Papandreous PASOK-party wins election in Greece
1985 06 02 RJ Reynolds Company proposed a merger with Nabisco
1986 06 02 NYC transit system issues a new brass with steel bullseye token
1986 06 02 Regular TV coverage of US Senate sessions begins
1987 06 02 Mariners draft Ken Griffey Jr #1
1988 06 02 61st Natl Spell Bee: Rageshree Ramachandran wins spelling elegiacal
1988 06 02 Consumer Reports calls for a ban on the Suzuki Samurai automobile
1989 06 02 Dead Poets Society starring Robin Williams, premieres
1989 06 02 14 year old Scott Isaacs spells spoliator to win 1989 Spelling Bee
1989 06 02 Cincinnati Red Eric Davis hits for cycle
1989 06 02 Rolling Stones Bill Wyman marries Mandy Smith
1989 06 02 10,000 Chinese soldiers are blocked by 100,000 citizens protecting students demonstrating for democracy in Tiananmen Square, Beijing
1990 06 02 Turtle Power by Partners In Kryme hits #13
1990 06 02 Seattle's Randy Johnson, no-hits Tigers, 2-0
1990 06 02 Rex Harrison, actor. dies
1991 06 02 45th Tony Awards: Lost in Yonkers & Will Rogers Follies win
1991 06 02 4th Children's Miracle Network Telethon
1991 06 02 Rosie Jones wins LPGA Rochester Golf International
1991 06 02 Seppo Raty of Finland improves his world javelin record to 318' 1
1991 06 02 Three Andrettis finished 1-2-3 in the Miller 200 at Wisconsin
1992 06 02 Former NFL NY Giant Coach Bill Parcells undergoes open heart surgery
1992 06 02 Wilson Phillips release their 2nd album Shadows & Light
1994 06 02 67th National Spelling Bee: Ned Andrews wins spelling antediluvian
1994 06 02 Chinook helicopter crashes in North Scotland (29 killed)
1994 06 02 Indonesian censors ban Steven Spielberg's Schindler's List
1994 06 02 Sharon Stone files $12m suit against her jeweler
1995 06 02 John Valentin hits 3 HRs
1996 06 02 50th Tony Awards: Master Class & Rent win
1996 06 02 51st US Women's Open Golf Championship won by Annika Sorenstam
1996 06 02 9th Children's Miracle Network Telethon
1996 06 02 Ray Combs, game show host, comedian. dies
1997 06 02 Albert Belle's Chic White Sox tying 27-game hitting streak ends
1997 06 02 Liberals beat Conservatives in France
1997 06 02 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, killing 168.
2001 06 02 Imogene Coca, actress. dies
2003 06 02 Fred Blassie, former professional wrestler dies
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