June 2
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June 2 is the 153rd day of the year (154th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 212 days remaining until the end of the year.
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Births [change]
- 926 – Emperor Murakami of Japan (d. 967)
- 1535 – Pope Leo XI (d. 1605)
- 1731 – Martha Washington, wife of George Washington, first First Lady of the United States (d. 1802)
- 1740 – Marquis de Sade, French writer (d. 1814)
- 1774 – William Lawson, explorer of New South Wales (d. 1850)
- 1813 – Daniel Pollen, 9th Prime Minister of New Zealand (d. 1896)
- 1835 – Pope Pius X (d. 1914)
- 1835 – Nikolai Rubinstein, Russian pianist and composer (d. 1881)
- 1840 – Thomas Hardy, English poet, novelist (d. 1928)
- 1857 – Edward Elgar, English composer (d. 1934)
- 1857 – Karl Adolph Gjellerup, Danish writer (d. 1919)
- 1861 – Helen Herron Taft, First Lady of the United States, wife of William Howard Taft (d. 1943)
- 1863 – Felix Weingartner, composer and conductor (d. 1942)
- 1885 – Hans-Gerhard Creutzfeldt, German neurologist (d. 1964)
- 1891 – Takijiro Onishi, Japanese World War II figure (d. 1945)
- 1899 – Lotte Reiniger, German movie director (d. 1981)
- 1904 – Johnny Weissmuller, American swimmer and actor (d. 1984)
- 1907 – Dorothy West, American writer (d. 1998)
- 1913 – Barbara Pym, English writer (d. 1980)
- 1915 – Walter Tetley, American voice actor (d. 1975)
- 1917 – Max Showalter, American actor (d. 2000)
- 1920 – Marcel Reich-Ranicki, German literary critic
- 1920 – Frank G. Clement, Governor of Tennessee (d. 1969)
- 1922 – Juan Antonio Bardem, Spanish director and screenwriter (d. 2002)
- 1928 – Stig Claesson, Swedish writer and illustrator (d. 2008)
- 1929 – Ken McGregor, Australian tennis player (d. 2007)
- 1935 – Carol Shields, American-Canadian novelist (d. 2003)
- 1936 – Volodymyr Holubnychy, Ukrainian race walker and Olympic champion
- 1936 – Sally Kellerman, American actress
- 1940 – Constantine II, former King of Greece
- 1941 – Stacy Keach, American actor
- 1941 – Charlie Watts, English musician (The Rolling Stones)
- 1941 – William Guest, American singer
- 1946 – Lasse Hallstrom, Swedish director
- 1946 – Peter Sutcliffe, British serial killer
- 1948 – Todd Rundgren, American singer and producer
- 1952 – Pete Farndon, British musician (The Pretenders) (d. 1983)
- 1953 – Keith Allen, British actor and comedian
- 1953 – Cornel West, American theologian and activist
- 1953 – Paul Engemann, American musician
- 1955 – Michael Steele, American musician (The Bangles)
- 1956 – Mani Ratnam, Indian film director
- 1957 – Mark Lawrenson, English footballer and commentator
- 1960 – Olga Bondarenko, Russian Olympic gold medalist (athletics)
- 1960 – Tony Hadley, English singer (Spandau Ballet)
- 1964 – Caroline Link, German director and screenwriter
- 1965 – Mark Waugh, Australian cricketer
- 1965 – Steve Waugh, Australian cricketer
- 1972 – Wentworth Miller, American actor
- 1976 – Tim Rice-Oxley, English musician (Keane)
- 1976 – Queen 'Masenate Mohato Seeiso of Lesotho
- 1977 – Zachary Quinto, American actor
- 1978 – Dominic Cooper, English actor
- 1978 – Nikki Cox, American actress
- 1978 – Justin Long, American actor
- 1980 – Abby Wambach, American soccer player
- 1981 – Nikolay Davydenko, Russian tennis player
- 1983 – Christopher Higgins, American ice hockey player
- 1985 – Ana Cristina, American singer and actress
- 1987 – Darin Zanyar, Swedish singer
- 1988 – Patrik Berglund, Swedish ice hockey player
- 1988 – Sergio Aguero, Argentine footballer
- 1989 – Freddy Adu, Ghanaian-born footballer
- 1990 – Brittany Curran, American actress and singer
- 1992 – Patjim Kasami, Swiss footballer
Deaths [change]
- 657 – Pope Eugene I
- 829 – Saint Nicephorus, Patriarch of Constantinople (b. 758)
- 910 – Richilde of Provence, Queen of West Francia (b. 845)
- 1581 – James Douglas, 4th Earl of Morton, regent of Scotland (b. 1525)
- 1701 – Madeleine de Scudery, French writer (b. 1607)
- 1754 – Ebenezer Erskine, Scottish religious dissenter (b. 1680)
- 1761 – Jonas Alstromer, Swedish industrialist (b. 1685)
- 1876 – Hristo Botev, Bulgarian revolutionary (b. 1848)
- 1882 – Giuseppe Garibaldi, Italian patriot (b. 1807)
- 1933 – Frank Jarvis, American athlete (b. 1878)
- 1941 – Lou Gehrig, American baseball player (b. 1903)
- 1962 – Vita Sackville-West, English writer (b. 1892)
- 1967 – Benno Ohnesorg, German student (b. 1940)
- 1969 – Leo Gorcey, American actor (b. 1917)
- 1970 – Bruce McLaren, New Zealand racing driver and team founder (b. 1937)
- 1970 – Giuseppe Ungaretti, Italian poet (b. 1888)
- 1976 – Juan Jose Torres, President of Bolivia (b. 1920)
- 1983 – Stan Rogers, Canadian musician (b. 1949)
- 1987 – Andres Segovia, Spanish guitarist (b. 1893)
- 1988 – Raj Kapoor, Indian actor, producer and director (b. 1924)
- 1990 – Rex Harrison, British actor (b. 1908)
- 1992 – Philip Dunne, American film director (b. 1908)
- 1994 – Henry Mancini, composer (b. 1924)
- 1997 – Helen Jacobs, American tennis player (b. 1908)
- 1999 – Junior Braithwaite, Jamaican musician (b. 1949)
- 2006 – Vince Welnick, musician (The Greatful Dead) (b. 1951)
- 2007 – Huang Ju, Chinese Vice Premier (b. 1938)
- 2008 – Bo Diddley, American musician (b. 1928)
- 2008 – Mel Ferrer, American actor and film director (b. 1917)
- 2009 – David Eddings, American author (b. 1931)
- 2010 – Giuseppe Taddei, Italian operatic baritone (b. 1916)
- 2012 – Kathryn Joosten, American actress (b. 1939)
Events [change]
- 455 – Sack of Rome: Vandals enter Rome and plunder the city for two weeks.
- 1098 – First Crusade: At the end of a siege, Crusade forces take Antioch.
- 1763 – Pontiac's Rebellion: In present-day Michigan, Chippewas capture Fort Michilimackinac by diverting the garrison's attention with a game of Lacrosse, then chasing the ball into a fort.
- 1835 – P. T. Barnum's circus starts touring the United States.
- 1848 – The Slavic Congress in Prague begins.
- 1858 – Comet C/1858 L1 is discovered by Italian astronomer Giambattista Donati.
- 1876 – Bulgarian revolutionary Hristo Botev is killed.
- 1886 – Grover Cleveland marries Frances Folsom.
- 1896 – Guglielmo Marconi applies for a patent for the radio.
- 1909 – Alfred Deakin becomes Prime Minister of Australia for a third time.
- 1910 – Charles Rolls becomes the first person to make a non-stop crossing of the English Channel by aeroplane.
- 1919 – Anarchists simultaneously set of bombs in eight separate United States cities.
- 1924 – US President Calvin Coolidge signs the Indian Citizenship Act, giving equal citizenship to Native Americans born within the territory of the United States.
- 1946 – In a referendum, voters in Italy support the formation of a Republic.
- 1953 – Coronation of Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom.
- 1953 – The news of the first successful ascent of Mt. Everest reaches the UK.
- 1955 – The USSR and Yugoslavia sign the Belgrade Declaration.
- 1962 – The most violent match of the FIFA World Cup occurs in Chile as police have to intervene between Chilean and Italian footballers.
- 1966 – The Surveyor 1 spacecraft on the Moon.
- 1967 – German student Benno Ohnesorg is shot dead by police at a demonstration outside the Iranian Embassy.
- 1974 – Jigme Singye Wangchuck is crowned King of Bhutan.
- 1976 – The second UK-Iceland Cod War ends.
- 1979 – The Uganda-Tanzania War ends, with Ugandan forces under Idi Amin being defeated.
- 1979 – Pope John Paul II visits Poland, his native country, for the first time in his papacy.
- 1994 – A magnitude 7.8 earthquake strikes Java, killing 277 people.
- 1997 – Timothy McVeigh is convicted of the Oklahoma City bombing.
- 1999 – Bhutan starts television transmission.
- 2003 – The Mars Express Space Probe launches from Baikonur, Kazakhstan.
- 2004 – Ken Jennings begins his 74-game winning run on the TV game show Jeopardy!.
- 2010 – Prime Minister of Japan Yukio Hatoyama announces his resignation, less than 9 months after taking office. Naoto Kan succeeds him.
- 2010 – Derrick Bird goes on a shooting rampage in Cumbria, England. 12 people are killed and 11 people are injured, before Derrick Bird kills himself.
- 2012 – Former President of Egypt Hosni Mubarak is sentenced to life in prison for ordering killings during the 2011 Egyptian protests.
