Notable Historical Events on June 2nd
June 2nd Historical Events
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
455 |
King Gaiseric & the Vandals sack Rome - Rome looted for 14 days |
575 |
Benedict I begins his reign as Catholic Pope |
657 |
St Eugene I ends his reign as Catholic Pope |
1615 |
First Récollet missionaries arrive at Quebec City, from Rouen, France. |
1619 |
England & Netherlands sign treaty about business in the Indies |
1625 |
Prince Frederik Henry sworn in as viceroy of Holland/Zealand |
1627 |
English king Charles I establishes Guyana Company |
1633 |
Prince Frederik Henry conquerors fort Rhine at Cologne |
1676 |
Battle at Palermo: French beats Dutch/Spanish fleet |
1697 |
August, Elector of Saxony becomes Catholic |
1746 |
Russia & Austria sign agreements |
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: Amendment to original Quartering Act enacted, allowed governor in colonial America to house British soldiers in uninhabited houses, outhouses, barns, or other buildings if suitable quarters not provided. |
1780 |
Anti-Catholic demonstration attacks parliament in London |
1797 |
1st ascent of "Great Mountain" (4,622') in Adirondack NY (C Broadhead) |
1834 |
5th national black convention meets (NYC) |
1835 |
P T Barnum & his circus begin 1st tour of US |
1848 |
The Slavic congress in Prague begins. |
1851 |
1st US alcohol prohibition law enacted (Maine) |
1855 |
The Portland Rum Riot occurs in Portland, Maine. |
1857 |
James Gibbs, Va, patents chain-stitch single-thread sewing machine |
1858 |
Donati Comet 1st seen named after its discoverer |
1862 |
Robert E. Lee takes command of Confederate armies of North Virgin during US Civil War |
1862 |
Raid at Early's: Maryland towards Washington DC |
1863 |
Harriet Tubman leads Union guerrillas into Maryland, freeing slaves |
1864 |
Battle of Cold Harbour, Day 2 |
1865 |
At Galveston, Kirby-Smith surrenders Trans-Mississippi Dept |
1866 |
Renegade Irish Fenians surrender to US forces |
1869 |
Cleveland's Forest City play their 1st game (vs Cin Red Stockings) |
1873 |
Construction begins on Clay St (SF) for world's 1st cable railroad |
1875 |
James Augustine Healey became 1st Black Catholic Bishop in US |
1875 |
Alexander Graham Bell makes first sound transmission |
1876 |
Hristo Botev, a Bulgarian poet and national revolutionary, is killed in Stara Planina |
1881 |
Haarlem-Zandvoort Railway opens |
1882 |
Pierre de Brazza festival welcomed in Paris |
1883 |
1st night baseball under lights, Fort Wayne Indiana |
1883 |
Chicago's "El" opens to traffic |
1886 |
Grover Cleveland is 1st to wed during presidency (Frances Folsom) |
1896 |
30th Belmont: Henry Griffin aboard Hastings wins in 2:24.5 |
1896 |
Guglielmo Marconi applies to patent the radio, accepted 2 July 1897 |
1899 |
Black Americans observed day of fasting in protest against lynchings |
1901 |
Benjamin Adams arrested for playing golf on Sunday (NY) |
1902 |
2nd statewide initiative & referendum law adopted, in Oregon |
1903 |
Netherlands Korfball League forms |
1903 |
Pirates win a triple header from Dodgers |
1904 |
Professor Schron finds microbe that causes photosynthesis |
1908 |
33rd Preakness: Eddie Dugan riding Royal Tourist wins in 1:46.4 |
1909 |
43rd Belmont: Eddie Dugan riding Joe Madden wins in 2:21.6 |
1909 |
Alfred Deakin becomes Prime Minister of Australia for the third time. |
1910 |
1st roundtrip flight over English Channel (C S Rolls, England) |
1910 |
Pygmies discovered in Dutch New Guinea |
1913 |
1st strike settlement mediated by US Dept of Labor - railroad clerks |
1913 |
Demonstrations for general voting right in Netherlands |
1914 |
Glenn Curtiss flies his Langley Aerodrome |
1916 |
German troops under Lt Rackow take Fort Vaux |
1917 |
Canadian ace Billy Bishop undertakes a solo mission behind enemy lines, shooting down three aircrafts as they were about to take off and several more on the ground, for which he is awarded the Victoria Cross |
1919 |
Pulitzer prize awarded to Carl Sandburg (Cornhuskers) |
1920 |
Pulitzer prize awarded to Eugene O'Neill (Beyond the Horizon) |
1922 |
Suffy McInnis (1st base) ends an errorless string of 1,700 chances |
1924 |
Snyder Act: US citizenship granted to all American Indians |
1925 |
NY Yankee Lou Gehrig begins his 2,130 consecutive game streak |
1928 |
Velveeta Cheese created by Kraft |
1930 |
Sarah Dickson becomes 1st woman Presbyterian elder in US, Cincinnati |
1932 |
German Chancellor Franz von Papen forms his "Cabinet of the Barons" |
1933 |
FDR authorizes 1st swimming pool built inside the White House |
1933 |
WNJ-AM in Newark NJ goes off the air |
1935 |
Babe Ruth, 40, announces his retirement as a player |
1936 |
Gen Anastasio Somoza takes over as dictator of Nicaragua |
1940 |
Heavy German bombing on Dunkirk beach |
1942 |
Red Sox star Ted Williams enlists as a US Navy aviator |
1943 |
99th Pursuit Squadron flies 1st combat mission (over Italy) |
1943 |
German assault on Sebastopol Krim, begins |
1944 |
Generals Eisenhower & Montgomery dine in Portsmouth |
1944 |
Judendurchgangslager Vught disbands |
1946 |
Italian plebiscite chooses republic over monarchy (National Day) |
1947 |
"Louisiana Lady" opens at Century Theater NYC for 4 performances |
1947 |
Hungarian premier Ferenc Nagy resigns |
1949 |
Transjordan renamed Jordan |
1950 |
St Louis Browns pitcher Harry Dorish swipes home vs Wash Senators |
1951 |
Pope Pius XII publishes encyclical Evangelii praecones |
1952 |
650,000 metal workers go on strike in US |
1952 |
Maurice Olley of General Motors begins designing the Corvette |
1953 |
Coronation of Queen Elizabeth II in Westminster Abbey, London |
1954 |
John Costello (Cons) becomes premier of Ireland |
1955 |
The USSR and Yugoslavia sign the Belgrade declaration and thus normalize relations between both countries, discontinued since 1948. |
1956 |
Yugoslav president Tito visits Moscow |
1957 |
Fay Crocker wins LPGA Triangle Round Robin Golf Tournament |
1957 |
US TV interviews Nikita Khrushchev |
1958 |
Alan Freed joins WABC (NYC) radio |
1958 |
Brooks Robinson hits into 1st of record 4 triple plays |
1958 |
Yankees pitcher Whitey Ford fans 6 in a row to tie an AL record |
1959 |
Allen Ginsberg writes his poem "Lysergic Acid", SF |
1960 |
Broadway theaters close (labor dispute between owners & Actors Equity) |
1962 |
32nd French Mens Tennis: Rod Laver beats Roy Emerson (36 26 63 97 62) |
1963 |
Mickey Wright wins LPGA Babe Didrikson-Zaharias Golf Open |
1964 |
"Follies Bergere" opens at Broadway Theater NYC for 191 performances |
1964 |
Lal Bahadur Sjastri elected premier of India |
1964 |
Rolling Stones 1st US concert tour debuts in Lynn, Mass |
1965 |
2nd of 2 cyclones in less than a month kills 35,000 (Ganges R India) |
1966 |
US Surveyor 1 lands in Oceanus Procellarum; 1st lunar soft-landing |
1967 |
Race riots in Roxbury section of Boston |
1968 |
Canadians must get government permission to export silver |
1968 |
WBLG (now WTVQ) TV channel 62 in Lexington, KY (ABC) 1st broadcast |
1969 |
Australian aircraft carrier HMAS Melbourne slices US destroyer USS Frank E Evans in half, killing 74 (South Vietnam) |
1969 |
Murle Lindstrom wins LPGA O'Sullivan Ladies Golf Open |
1971 |
Ajax wins 16th Europe Cup 1 |
1972 |
Two British Army soldiers die in a land mine attack by the Irish Republican Army (IRA) near Rosslea, County Fermanagh |
1973 |
"Nash at Nine" closes at Helen Hayes Theater NYC after 21 performances |
1974 |
Judy Rankin wins LPGA Baltimore Golf Classic |
1974 |
Mali adopts constitution |
1974 |
Malta's constitution goes into effect |
1975 |
First recorded snowfall in London in June |
1975 |
James A Healy, 1st black Roman Catholic bishop, consecrated (Maine) |
1975 |
VP Rockefeller finds no pattern of illegal activities at CIA |
1976 |
East Timor People's Assembly accepts annexation by Indonesia |
1977 |
NJ allows casino gambling in Atlantic City |
1979 |
John Paul II becomes 1st pope to visit a communist country (Poland) |
1979 |
NASA launches space vehicle S-198 |
1980 |
"Your Arm's Too Short to Box..." opens at Ambassador NYC for 149 perfs |
1981 |
Barbara Walters asks Katharine Hepburn what kind of tree she would be |
1982 |
"Blues in the Night" opens at Rialto Theater NYC for 53 performances |
1983 |
1980 movie "Attack of the Killer Tomatoes" released in Germany |
1983 |
Toilet catches fire on Air Canada's DC-9, 23 die at Cincinnati |
1984 |
"Welcome To Fun Zone" hosted by Dr Demento airs on NBC-TV |
1984 |
Actress Jill Ireland has a radical mastectomy |
1984 |
Flight readiness firing of Discovery's main engines |
1985 |
31st LPGA Championship won by Nancy Lopez |
1985 |
39th Tony Awards: Biloxi Blues & Big River win |
1985 |
Andreas Papandreou's PASOK-party wins election in Greece |
1985 |
RJ Reynolds Company proposed a merger with Nabisco |
1986 |
NYC transit system issues a new brass with steel bullseye token |
1986 |
Regular TV coverage of US Senate sessions begins |
1987 |
Mariners draft Ken Griffey Jr #1 |
1988 |
61st National Spell Bee: Rageshree Ramachandran wins spelling elegiacal |
1988 |
Consumer Reports calls for a ban on the Suzuki Samurai automobile |
1989 |
"Dead Poets Society" starring Robin Williams premieres |
1989 |
14 year old Scott Isaacs spells spoliator to win 1989 Spelling Bee |
1989 |
Cincinnati Red Eric Davis hits for cycle |
1989 |
10,000 Chinese soldiers are blocked by 100,000 citizens protecting students demonstrating for democracy in Tiananmen Square, Beijing |
1990 |
"Turtle Power" by Partners In Kryme hits #13 |
1990 |
Seattle's Randy Johnson, no-hits Tigers, 2-0 |
1991 |
45th Tony Awards: Lost in Yonkers & Will Rogers Follies win |
1991 |
4th Children's Miracle Network Telethon |
1991 |
Rosie Jones wins LPGA Rochester Golf International |
1991 |
Seppo Raty of Finland improves his world javelin record to 318' 1" |
1991 |
Three Andrettis finished 1-2-3 in the Miller 200 at Wisconsin |
1992 |
Former NFL NY Giant Coach Bill Parcells undergoes open heart surgery |
1992 |
Wilson Phillips release their 2nd album "Shadows & Light" |
1994 |
67th National Spelling Bee: Ned Andrews wins spelling antediluvian |
1994 |
Chinook helicopter crashes in North Scotland (29 killed) |
1994 |
Indonesian censors ban Steven Spielberg's "Schindler's List" |
1994 |
Sharon Stone files $12m lawsuit against her jeweler |
1995 |
John Valentin hits 3 HRs |
1996 |
50th Tony Awards: Master Class & Rent win |
1996 |
51st US Women's Open Golf Championship won by Annika Sorenstam |
1996 |
9th Children's Miracle Network Telethon |
1997 |
Albert Belle's Chicago White Sox tying 27-game hitting streak ends |
1997 |
Liberals beat Conservatives in France |
1997 |
Timothy McVeigh found guilty of 1995 Oklahoma City bombing, killing 168 |
1998 |
The CIH computer virus is discovered in Taiwan. |
1999 |
The Bhutan Broadcasting Service brings television transmissions to the Kingdom for the first time. |
2002 |
56th Tony Awards: Thoroughly Modern Millie & The Goat, or Who is Sylvia? win |
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!. |
2009 |
Switzerland officially enters the global recession |
2017 |
China's media calls Trump's withdrawal from Paris accord 'global setback' |
2017 |
Putin: 'Patriotically inclined' Russian hackers could be behind election interference |
2017 |
UN says US withdrawal from Paris deal 'major disappointment' |
2018 |
Canada files WTO challenge of US tariffs, to work with EU |
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