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- 0455 Gaiseric & the Vandals sack Rome
- 0455 The Vandals enter Rome, and plunder the city for two weeks.
- 0575 Benedict I becomes Pope.
- 0575 Benedict I begins his reign as Catholic Pope
- 0657 St Eugene I ends his reign as Catholic Pope
- 0657 St. Eugene I becomes Pope.
- 1098 First Crusade: The first Siege of Antioch ends as Crusader forces take the city. The second siege would later start on June 7.
- 1491 Birth - Henry VIII King of England (1509-47)
- 1615 First Rcollet missionaries arrive at Quebec City, from Rouen, France.
- 1692 Bridget Bishop is the first person to go to trial in the Salem witch trials in Salem, Massachusetts, is found guilty, and would go on to be hanged on June 10.
- 1740 Birth - Marquis de Sade 1st known sadist, writer (Justine)
- 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.
- 1778 UK hist Jun 2-8: The Gordon Riots – Parliament passes a Roman Catholic relief measure – for days, London is at the mercy of a mob and destruction is widespread
- 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.
- 1797 First ascent of "Great Mountain" (4,622') in Adirondack NY (C Broadhead)
- 1800 First smallpox vaccination in North America, at Trinity, Newfoundland.
- 1821 Birth - Ion Bratianu (Lib), premier of Romania (1876-88)
- 1834 5th national black convention meet (NYC)
- 1835 Birth - St Pius X 257th Roman Catholic pope (1903-14)
- 1835 P. T. Barnum and his circus begins their first tour of the United States.
- 1840 Birth - Thomas Hardy England, poet/novelist (Mayor of Casterbridge)
- 1848 Slavic congress in Prague begins.
- 1851 Maine becomes the first state in the Union to enact a law prohibiting alcohol
- 1855 The Portland Rum Riot occurs in Portland, Maine.
- 1857 Birth - Edward Elgar Broadheath, England, composer (Pomp & Circumstance)
- 1857 Birth - Karl Gjellerup Denmark, poet/novelist (Nobel 1917)
- 1857 James Gibbs, Va., patents chain-stitch single-thread sewing machine
- 1858 Donati Comet first seen named after it's discoverer
- 1862 Gen Robert E Lee takes command of the Confederate armies of E VA & NC
- 1863 Birth - Felix Weingartner Germany, conductor (Zara, Dalmatia)
- 1865 At Galveston, Kirby-Smith surrenders the Trans-Mississippi Dept
- 1873 Ground broken on Clay St (SF) for world's first cable railroad
- 1882 Death - Guiseppi Garibaldi Italian rebel leader, dies at 74
- 1886 Grover Cleveland is first to wed during presidency (Frances Folsom)
- 1890 Birth - Hedda Hopper gossip columnist (From Under My Hat)
- 1894 Birth - Erich Rmer Germany, ice hockey player (Olympic-bronze-1932)
- 1896 UK hist Guglielmo Marconi receives a British patent (later disputed) for the radio
- 1897 Mark Twain, responding to rumors that he was dead at age 61, is quoted by the New York Journal as saying: "The report of my death was an exaggeration."
- 1899 Black Americans observed day of fasting to protest lynchings
- 1901 Birth - Michael Todd producer (Around the World in 80 Days)
- 1902 2nd statewide initiative & referendum law adopted, in Oregon
- 1904 Birth - John Weissmuller actor (Tarzan)/100m swimmer (Olympic-gold-1924, 28)
- 1910 Pygmies discovered in Dutch New Guinea
- 1910 The first roundtrip flight over the English Channel (C.S. Rolls, England)
- 1913 Birth - Barbara Pym romantic author (Very Private Eye)
- 1913 Birth - Bert Farber Bkln NY, orch leader (Arthur Gudfrey, Vic Damone)
- 1913 The first strike settlement mediated by US Dep't of Labor-RR clerks
- 1917 Birth - Max Showalter Caldwell Ks, actor/composer (Stockard Channing Show)
- 1917 Capt. William Avery Bishop Cdn. (Royal Flying Corps.) wins the Victoria Cross for service over France
- 1924 The U.S. Congress grants citizenship to all American Indians.
- 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.
- 1926 Birth - Milo O'Shea actor (Barbarella, Romeo & Juliet)
- 1927 Birth - Phillip Burton historian (Vanishing Eagles)
- 1930 Birth - Charles Pete Conrad Jr Phila, USN/astro (Gem 5 11, Ap 12, Skylab 2)
- 1930 Sarah Dickson becomes first woman Presbyterian elder in US, Cincinnati
- 1932 Birth - Sammy Turner Patterson, NJ, singer (Lavender Blue Moods)
- 1933 Birth - Bob Rozario Shanghai China, orch leader (Tony Orlando, Marie)
- 1933 WNJ-AM in Newark NJ goes off the air
- 1936 Birth - Sally Kellerman Long Beach Cal, actress (M*A*S*H, Back to School)
- 1936 Birth - Vladimir Golubnichy USSR, 20K walker (Olympic-gold-1960, 68)
- 1936 Gen Anastasio Somoza takes over as dictator of Nicaragua
- 1940 Birth - Constantine II deposed king of Greece (-1967)
- 1941 Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis claims baseball's "Iron Horse," Lou Gehrig, in New York. The malady is now often referred to as Lou Gehrig's disease.
- 1941 Birth - Charlie Watts drummer (Rolling Stones-Brown Sugar)
- 1941 Birth - Stacy Keach Savannah Ga, actor (Mickey Spillane's Mike Hammer)
- 1941 Birth - William Guest Atlanta Ga, singer (Gladys Knight Show)
- 1941 Death - Lou Gehrig Yankee great, dies at 37 of ALS in Riverdale NY
- 1943 99th Pursuit Squadron flies first combat mission (over Italy)
- 1943 Birth - Charles Haid SF Ca, actor (Andy Renko-Hill St Blues, Altered States)
- 1943 Death - Leslie Howard actor killed, when Nazis shot down his plane
- 1944 Birth - Garo Yepremian NFL place kicker (Miami Dolphins)
- 1944 Birth - Marvin Hamlisch US, composer/pianist (The Sting, Chorus Line)
- 1944 Birth - Poul Jensen Denmark, yachting (Olympic-gold-1976, 80)
- 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.
- 1946 Italian plebiscite chooses republic over monarchy (National Day)
- 1948 Birth - Albert Innaurato Phila, playwright/director (Age in Soho)
- 1948 Birth - Jerry Mathers Sioux City Iowa, actor (Beaver-Leave It To Beaver)
- 1949 Transjordan renamed Jordan
- 1950 Birth - Joanna Gleason Toronto Canada, actress (Morgan-Hello Larry)
- 1953 Birth - Craig Stadler San Diego Calif, PGA golfer (Masters 1982)
- 1953 Visitor posting - David Alan Blair is born - USA
- 1953 Coronation of Queen Elizabeth II in Westminster Abbey
- 1955 Birth - Dana Carvey comedian (Sat Night Live-Church Lady/George Bush)
- 1955 Birth - Garry Grimes SF, actor (Summer of '42, Class of '44)
- 1955 USSR and Yugoslavia sign the Belgrade declaration and thus normalize relations between both countries, discontinued since 1948.
- 1960 Birth - Tony Hadley rocker (Spandau Ballet-True)
- 1961 Death - George S Kaufman playwright/dir/pulitzer prize winner, dies at 72
- 1964 Rolling Stones first US concert tour debuts in Lynn, Mass
- 1964 Visitor posting - Marge Lipschitz is born turning June TWO into an international holiday, no doubt (no doubt!) - USA
- 1965 2nd of 2 cyclones in less than a month kills 35,000 (Ganges R India)
- 1966 Number one hit on UK music charts - Frank Sinatra - Strangers In The Night
- 1966 Surveyor program: Surveyor 1 lands in Oceanus Procellarum on the Moon, becoming the first US spacecraft to soft land on another world.
- 1966 US Surveyor 1 lands in Oceanus Procellarum; first lunar soft-landing
- 1967 Death - Zamah Cunningham actress (Menosha the Magnificent), dies at 74
- 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.
- 1967 Race riots in Roxbury section of Boston
- 1969 Australian aircraft carrier "Melbourne" slices US destroyer "Frank E Evans" in half, killing 74. (South Vietnam)
- 1970 Visitor posting - richie sullivan born - Malta
- 1972 Dion & the Belmonts reunion concert at Madison Square Garden
- 1973 Visitor posting - Derek and Christine Potter married in Fulham, London
- 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.
- 1975 James A Healy, first black Roman Catholic bishop, consecrated (Maine)
- 1976 Birth - Adrian Carlos Olivares Mexico City, singer (Menudo-Cannonball)
- 1976 Death - Alan Dewitt actor (Mr Tyler-It's About Time), dies at 52
- 1977 Death - Forrest Lewis actor (Great Gildersleeve, Ichabod & Me), dies at 77
- 1977 NJ allows casino gambling in Atlantic City
- 1979 Death - Jim Hutton actor (Ellery Queen), dies at 45
- 1979 John Paul II becomes first pope to visit a communist country (Poland)
- 1979 Pope John Paul II visits his native Poland, becoming the first Pope to visit a Communist country.
- 1981 Barbara Walters asks Katharine Hepburn what kind of tree she would be
- 1983 Toilet catches fire on Air Canada's DC-9, 23 die at Cincinatti
- 1984 Actress Jill Ireland has a radical masectomy
- 1984 B A Skiff discovers asteroid #3617
- 1984 Number one hit on UK music charts - Wham! - Wake Me Up Before You Go-Go
- 1986 NYC transit system issues a new brass with steel bullseye token
- 1986 Regular TV coverage of US Senate sessions begins
- 1987 Death - Andrs Segovia Spanish guitarist, dies at 94
- 1987 Death - Sammy Kaye orch leader (Sammy Kaye Show), dies at 77
- 1988 Death - Horace A Hildreth (Gov-Maine, 1945-49), dies at 85
- 1989 10,000 Chinese soldiers are blocked by 100,000 citizens protecting students demonstrating for democracy in Tiananmen Square, Beijing
- 1989 14 year old Scott Isaacs spells spoliator to win 1989 Spelling Bee
- 1989 Visitor posting - Brittany Leigh's Birthday - USA
- 1989 Rolling Stones Bill Wyman marries Mandy Smith
- 1990 Death - Frederick Mellinger founder of Fredericks of Hollywood, dies at 76
- 1990 Death - Rex Harrison actor (My Fair Lady), dies at 82 of cancer
- 1990 Death - Robert Noyce co-inventor (semi-conductor)/founded Intel, dies
- 1990 Lower Ohio Valley tornado outbreak spawns 88 confirmed tornados in Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, and Ohio, killing 9. Petersburg, Indiana was the hardest-hit town in the outbreak, with 6 deaths.
- 1990 Rex Harrison actor (My Fair Lady), dies at 82 of cancer
- 1990 Robert Noyce co-inventor (semi-conductor)/founded Intel, dies
- 1992 Denmark rejects the Maastricht Treaty by a thin margin in a national referendum.
- 1993 Visitor posting - June 2 1993 Ariel-Leigh Smith is born (youth poet of the year 2006 + Commercial actress for animal shelter)
- 1996 Visitor posting - Daquan-Brown-Jackson born - USA [email protected]
- 1997 In Denver, Colorado, 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.
- 1997 Visitor posting - June 2 1997 Gabriella Smidt is born! - USA
- 1998 The CIH computer virus is discovered in Taiwan.
- 1999 The Bhutan Broadcasting Service 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.
- 2004 Ken Jennings begins his 74-game winning streak on the syndicated game show Jeopardy!.
- 2007 Visitor posting - Thomas & Melissa were married in San Antonio TX - USA
- 2010 The death toll from Tropical Storm Agatha continued to grow Tuesday, with 152 reported killed in Guatemala, 16 in Honduras and nine in El Salvador.
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