What happened on June 2? There are more than 282 events that were made this day in history. Here are the important historical events, facts, and some myths about this day.
Interesting Facts & Myths About June 2
June 2 is the 154th day of the year 2024. There are 212 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Sunday. This day falls under the 22nd week of the year 2024.
On this day in Bear River City, Utah 84301 sunrise will occur at 05:54 AM and sunset will occur at 08:59 PM (local time).
The zodiac sign of a person born on this day is Gemini. The modern birthstone for this month is Pearl while the mystical birthstone is Moonstone.
According to the Chinese calendar, there are 241 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year (January 29, 2025).
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Historical Events For June 2
- 455Sack of Rome: Vandals enter Rome, and plunder the city for two weeks
- 1098First Crusade: The first Siege of Antioch ends as Crusader forces take the city. The second siege would later start on June 7.
- 1615First Récollet missionaries arrive at Quebec City, from Rouen, France.
- 1676Franco-Dutch War: France ensured the supremacy of its naval fleet for the remainder of the war with its victory in the Battle of Palermo.
- 1692Bridget Bishop is the first person to go to trial in the Salem witch trials in Salem, Massachusetts. Found guilty, she is hanged on June 10.
- 1763Pontiac’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.
- 1774Intolerable Acts: The Quartering Act is enacted, allowing a governor in colonial America to house British soldiers in uninhabited houses, outhouses, barns, or other buildings if suitable quarters are not provided.
- 1793French Revolution: François Hanriot, leader of the Parisian National Guard, arrests 22 Girondists selected by Jean-Paul Marat, setting the stage for the Reign of Terror.
- 1805Napoleonic Wars: A Franco-Spanish fleet recaptures Diamond Rock, an uninhabited island at the entrance to the bay leading to Fort-de-France, from the British.
- 1835P. T. Barnum and his circus start their first tour of the United States.
- 1848The Slavic congress in Prague begins.
- 1855The Portland Rum Riot occurs in Portland, Maine.
- 1866Fenian raids: Fenians are victorious in both the Battle of Ridgeway and the Battle of Fort Erie.
- 1876Hristo Botev, a national revolutionary of Bulgaria, is killed in Stara Planina
- 1886U.S. President Grover Cleveland marries Frances Folsom in the White House, becoming the only president to wed in the executive mansion.
- 1896Guglielmo Marconi applies for a patent for his newest invention: the radio.
- 1909Alfred Deakin becomes Prime Minister of Australia for the third time.
- 1910Charles Rolls, co-founder of Rolls-Royce Limited, becomes the first man to make a non-stop double crossing of the English Channel by plane.
- 1919Anarchists simultaneously set off bombs in eight separate U.S. cities.
- 1924U.S. President Calvin Coolidge signs the Indian Citizenship Act into law, granting citizenship to all Native Americans born within the territorial limits of the United States.
- 1941World War II: German paratoopers murder Greek civilians in the village of Kondomari.
- 1946Birth of the Italian Republic: In a referendum, Italians vote to turn Italy from a monarchy into a Republic. After the referendum the king of Italy Umberto II di Savoia is exiled.
- 1953The coronation of Queen Elizabeth II, who is crowned Queen of the United Kingdom, Canada, Australia, New Zealand and Her Other Realms and Territories & Head of the Commonwealth, the first major international event to be televised.
- 1955The USSR and Yugoslavia sign the Belgrade declaration and thus normalize relations between both countries, discontinued since 1948.
- 1962During the 1962 FIFA World Cup, police had to intervene multiple times in fights between Chilean and Italian players in one of the most violent games in football history.
- 1966Surveyor program: Surveyor 1 lands in Oceanus Procellarum on the Moon, becoming the first U.S. spacecraft to soft land on another world.
- 1967Luis Monge is executed in Colorado’s gas chamber, in the last pre-Furman execution in the United States.
- 1967Protests 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.
- 1979Pope John Paul II first official visit to his native Poland, becoming the first Pope to visit a Communist country.
- 1983After an emergency landing because of an in-flight fire, twenty-three passengers aboard Air Canada Flight 797 are killed when a flashover occurs as the plane’s doors open. Because of this incident, numerous new safety regulations are put in place.
- 1990The Lower Ohio Valley tornado outbreak spawns 66 confirmed tornadoes in Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, and Ohio, killing 12. Petersburg, Indiana, is the hardest-hit town in the outbreak, with 6 deaths.
- 1995United States Air Force Captain Scott O'Grady’s F-16 is shot down over Bosnia while patrolling the NATO no-fly zone.
- 1997In Denver, Colorado, Timothy McVeigh is convicted on 15 counts of murder and conspiracy for his role in the 1995 bombing of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma.
- 1999The Bhutan Broadcasting Service brings television transmissions to the Kingdom for the first time.
- 2003Europe launches its first voyage to another planet, Mars. The European Space Agency’s Mars Express probe launches from the Baikonur space center in Kazakhstan.
- 2004Ken Jennings begins his 74-game winning streak on the syndicated game show Jeopardy!
- 2010Derrick Bird goes on a killing spree in Cumbria, killing 13 and injuring 11, see Cumbria shootings.
Who Were Born On June 2?
- 926Murakami, Emperor of Japan (d. 967)
- 1535Pope Leo XI (d. 1605)
- 1731Martha Washington, First American first lady (d. 1802)
- 1740Marquis de Sade, French author (d. 1814)
- 1743Count Alessandro di Cagliostro, Sicilian Occultist (d. 1795)
- 1773John Randolph, U.S. Senator from Virginia (d. 1833)
- 1774William Lawson, explorer of New South Wales, Australia (d. 1850)
- 1815Philip Kearny, American general (d. 1862)
- 1823Gédéon Ouimet, French Canadian politician (d. 1905)
- 1835Pope Pius X (d. 1914)
- 1838Grand Duchess Alexandra Petrovna (d. 1900)
- 1840Thomas Hardy, English writer (d. 1928)
- 1857Edward Elgar, English composer (d. 1934)
- 1857Karl Adolph Gjellerup, Danish writer, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1919)
- 1861Concordia Selander, Swedish actress (d. 1935)
- 1863Felix Weingartner, Yugoslavian conductor (d. 1942)
- 1865George Lohmann, English cricketer (d. 1901)
- 1869Jack O'Connor, American baseball player (d. 1937)
- 1875Charles Stewart Mott, automotive industrialist and mayor (d. 1973)
- 1878Wallace Hartley, English violinist (d. 1912)
- 1887Howard Johnson, American songwriter (d. 1941)
- 1891Takijirō Ōnishi, Japanese WWII figure (d. 1945)
- 1891Thurman Arnold, American attorney and jurist (d. 1969)
- 1899Lotte Reiniger, German film director (d. 1981)
- 1904Frank Runacres, English artist (d. 1974)
- 1904Johnny Weissmuller, American swimmer and actor (d. 1984)
- 1907Dorothy West, American writer (d. 1998)
- 1907John Lehmann, English poet, editor, and publisher (d. 1987)
- 1913Barbara Pym, English novelist (d. 1980)
- 1913Walter Andreas Schwarz, German singer and author (d. 1992)
- 1915Alexandru Nicolschi, Romanian communist (d. 1992)
- 1915Walter Tetley, American voice actor (d. 1975)
- 1917Heinz Sielmann, German photographer and filmmaker (d. 2006)
- 1917Max Showalter, American actor (d. 2000)
- 1918Kathryn Tucker Windham, American writer and storyteller
- 1918Ruth Atkinson, American cartoonist (d. 1997)
- 1919Nat Mayer Shapiro, American painter (d. 2005)
- 1920Frank G. Clement, Governor of Tennessee (d. 1969)
- 1920Johnny Speight, British television writer (d. 1998)
- 1920Marcel Reich-Ranicki, Polish-born critic
- 1920Tex Schramm, American football team president and general manager (d. 2003)
- 1921Betty Freeman, American philanthropist and photographer (d. 2009)
- 1922Charlie Sifford, American golfer
- 1922Juan Antonio Bardem, Spanish director and screenwriter (d. 2002)
- 1924Al Ruscio, American actor
- 1924June Callwood, Canadian journalist and activist (d. 2007)
- 1926Chiyonoyama Masanobu, Japanese sumo wrestler, the 41st Yokozuna (d. 1977)
- 1926Milo O'Shea, Irish actor
- 1927W. Watts Biggers, American novelist and animator
- 1929Ken McGregor, Australian tennis player (d. 2007)
- 1929Norton Juster, American author and architect
- 1930Bob Lillis, baseball player
- 1930Pete Conrad, American astronaut (d. 1999)
- 1931Larry Jackson, baseball player (d. 1990)
- 1931William Donaldson, American businessman and politician
- 1932Sammy Turner, American singer
- 1934Johnny Carter, American doo wop singer (d. 2009)
- 1935Carol Shields, American-born novelist (d. 2003)
- 1935Dimitri Kitsikis, Greek turkologist
- 1935Roger Brierley, English actor (d. 2005)
- 1937Jimmy Jones, American singer and songwriter
- 1937Robert Paul, Canadian figure skater
- 1937Sally Kellerman, American actress
- 1938Kevin Brownlow, English film historian and author
- 1940King Constantine II of Greece
- 1941Charlie Watts, English musician (The Rolling Stones)
- 1941Jeff Winkless, American voice actor (d. 2006)
- 1941Stacy Keach, American actor
- 1941William Guest, American singer (Gladys Knight & the Pips)
- 1942Maree Cheatham, American actress
- 1943Charles Haid, American actor
- 1944Marvin Hamlisch, American composer and musician
- 1945Jane Bonnie Newman, American politician
- 1945Jon Peters, American film producer and hairdresser
- 1946Lasse Hallström, Swedish film director
- 1946Peter Sutcliffe, English serial killer
- 1946Song Dae Kwan, Korean singer
- 1947Mark Elder, British opera and symphony conductor
- 1948Jerry Mathers, American actor
- 1949Frank Rich, American theater critic and columnist
- 1949Heather Couper, British astronomer
- 1950Joanna Gleason, Canadian actress and singer
- 1951Larry Robinson, Canadian hockey player
- 1952Gary Bettman, American National Hockey League commissioner
- 1953Cornel West, American civil rights activist
- 1953Craig Stadler, American golfer
- 1953Keith Allen, Welsh comedian, actor, singer and writer
- 1954Dennis Haysbert, American actor
- 1955Chantal Hochuli, Swiss-born socialite
- 1955Dana Carvey, American actor
- 1955Michael Steele, American musician (The Bangles)
- 1956Jan Lammers, Dutch racing driver
- 1956Malcolm Garrett, English graphic designer
- 1957Jonathan Stack, American documentary filmmaker
- 1957Mark Lawrenson, English football commentator
- 1958Lawrence Pfohl, American professional wrestler
- 1959Charlie Huddy, Canadian hockey player
- 1959Lydia Lunch, American singer
- 1960Kyle Petty, American race car driver
- 1960Tony Hadley, English singer (Spandau Ballet)
- 1961Dez Cadena, American musician (Black Flag)
- 1963Jim Burns, American entrepreneur
- 1964Caroline Link, German film director and screenwriter
- 1965Jim Knipfel, American autobiographer and journalist
- 1965Mark Waugh Australian cricketer
- 1965Steve Waugh, Australian cricketer
- 1966Pedro Guerra, Spanish songwriter and singer
- 1967Mike Stanton, American baseball player
- 1968Beetlejuice, American radio personality
- 1968Jason Falkner, American musician
- 1968Jon Culshaw, British comedian
- 1969Cy Chadwick, English actor
- 1970Andy McCollum, American football player
- 1970B-Real, American rapper (Cypress Hill)
- 1971Anthony Montgomery, American actor
- 1971Jo Koy, Filipino-American comedian
- 1971Kateřina Jacques, Czech politician
- 1972Raúl Ibáñez, American baseball player
- 1972Simon Staho, Danish film director
- 1972Wayne Brady, American actor and comedian
- 1972Wentworth Miller, American actor
- 1973Neifi Perez, Dominican baseball player
- 1974Gata Kamsky, American chess player
- 1974Matt Serra, American mixed martial artist
- 1976Antônio Rodrigo Nogueira, Brazilian mixed martial artist
- 1976Earl Boykins, American basketball player
- 1976Martin Čech, Czech ice hockey player (d. 2007)
- 1976Queen 'Masenate Mohato Seeiso of Lesotho
- 1976Tim Rice-Oxley, English musician (Keane)
- 1977Zachary Quinto, American actor
- 1978A.J. Styles, American professional wrestler
- 1978Dominic Cooper, English actor
- 1978Justin Long, American actor
- 1978Nikki Cox, American actress
- 1979Morena Baccarin, Brazilian actress
- 1980Abby Wambach, American footballer
- 1980Bobby Simmons, American basketball player
- 1980Fabrizio Moretti, Brazilian rock drummer (The Strokes)
- 1980Matt Manning, British rock bassist (The Fuegos)
- 1981Chin-hui Tsao, Taiwanese baseball player
- 1981Nikolay Davydenko, Russian tennis player
- 1981Velvet Sky, American professional wrestler
- 1982Jewel Staite, Canadian actress
- 1983Brooke White, American singer
- 1983Christopher Higgins, American ice hockey player
- 1983Leela James, American singer-songwriter
- 1984Max Boyer, Canadian professional wrestler
- 1985Ana Cristina, American singer, composer, and actress
- 1986Curtis Lofton, American football player
- 1987Darin Zanyar, Swedish singer
- 1987Maryka Holtzhausen, South African netballer
- 1987Sonakshi Sinha, Indian actress
- 1988Patrik Berglund, Swedish ice hockey player
- 1988Sergio Agüero, Argentinian footballer
- 1989Freddy Adu, Ghanaian/American footballer
- 1989Steven Smith, Australian cricketer
- 1990Brittany Curran, American actress
- 1992Pajtim Kasami, Swiss footballer
- 1994Jemma McKenzie-Brown, English actress
Who Died On June 2?
- 829Saint Nicephorus, Patriarch of Constantinople (b. 758)
- 910Richilde of Provence, Queen of Western Francia (b. 845)
- 1418Katherine of Lancaster, wife of Henry III of Castile (b. 1373)
- 1567Shane O'Neill, Irish king of Ulsters (b. 1530)
- 1581James Douglas, 4th Earl of Morton, regent of Scotland (b. 1525)
- 1693John Wildman, English soldier and politician (b. 1621)
- 1701Madeleine de Scudéry, French writer (b. 1607)
- 1716Ogata Korin, Japanese painter (b. 1658)
- 1720Jeremiah Shepard, American minister (b. 1648)
- 1754Ebenezer Erskine, Scottish religious dissenter (b. 1680)
- 1761Jonas Alströmer, Swedish industrialist (b. 1685)
- 1785Jean Paul de Gua de Malves, French mathematician (b. 1713)
- 1806William Tate, English painter (b. 1747)
- 1833Simon Byrne, Irish bare-knuckle prize fighter (b. 1806)
- 1853Henry Trevor, 21st Baron Dacre, British peer and soldier (b. 1777)
- 1865Ner Alexander Middleswarth, American politician (b. 1783)
- 1875Józef Kremer, Polish messianistic philosopher (b. 1806)
- 1876Hristo Botev, Bulgarian revolutionary and poet (b. 1848)
- 1881Émile Littré, French lexicographer (b. 1801)
- 1882Giuseppe Garibaldi, Italian revolutionarist (b. 1807)
- 1901George Leslie Mackay, Canadian missionary (b. 1844)
- 1933Frank Jarvis, American athlete (b. 1878)
- 1937Louis Vierne, French organist and composer (b. 1870)
- 1941Lou Gehrig, American baseball player (b. 1903)
- 1942Bunny Berigan, American jazz musician (b. 1908)
- 1948Karl Brandt, personal physician of Adolf Hitler (b. 1904)
- 1948Karl Gebhardt, German doctor (b. 1897)
- 1948Viktor Brack, German physician (b. 1904)
- 1948Waldemar Hoven, German physician (b. 1903)
- 1948Wolfram Sievers, German SS officer (b. 1905)
- 1952Naum Torbov, Bulgarian architect (b. 1880)
- 1956Jean Hersholt, Danish actor and humanitarian (b. 1886)
- 1961George S. Kaufman, American playwright (b. 1889)
- 1962Vita Sackville-West, English writer, and gardener (b. 1892)
- 1967Benno Ohnesorg, German student (b. 1940)
- 1968André Mathieu, Quebec pianist and composer (b. 1929)
- 1969Leo Gorcey, American actor (b. 1917)
- 1970Albert Lamorisse, French film director and screenwriter (b. 1922)
- 1970Bruce McLaren, New Zealand car racer and designer (b. 1937)
- 1970Giuseppe Ungaretti, Italian poet (b. 1888)
- 1974Hiroshi Kazato, Japanese racing driver (b. 1949)
- 1976Juan José Torres, former President of Bolivia (b. 1920)
- 1976Kenneth Mason, British geographer (b. 1887)
- 1977Albert Bittlmayer, German footballer (b. 1952)
- 1977Stephen Boyd, Northern Irish actor (b. 1931)
- 1979Jim Hutton, American actor (b. 1934)
- 1982Fazal Ilahi Chaudhry, Pakistani politician (b. 1904)
- 1983Stan Rogers, Canadian musician (b. 1949)
- 1984Georgios Kasassoglou, Greek musician (b. 1908)
- 1986Aurèle Joliat, Canadian hockey player (b. 1901)
- 1987Andrés Segovia, Spanish guitarist (b. 1893)
- 1987Anthony de Mello, Indian Jesuit priest and psychotherapist (b. 1931)
- 1987Sammy Kaye, American bandleader (b. 1910)
- 1988Raj Kapoor, Indian film actor, producer and director (b. 1924)
- 1989Ted a'Beckett, Australian cricketer (b. 1907)
- 1990Jack Gilford, American actor (b. 1908)
- 1990Sir Rex Harrison, English actor (b. 1908)
- 1992Philip Dunne, American film director (b. 1908)
- 1993Johnny Mize, American baseball player (b. 1913)
- 1994David Stove, Australian philosopher (b. 1927)
- 1996Amos Tversky, Israeli psychologist (b. 1937)
- 1996John Alton, American cinematographer (b. 1901)
- 1996Leon Garfield, English children’s author (b. 1921)
- 1996Ray Combs, American game show host and comedian (b. 1956)
- 1997Doc Cheatham, American jazz trumpeter (b. 1905)
- 1998Sylvester Ritter, American wrestler (b. 1952)
- 1999Junior Braithwaite, Jamaican musician (The Wailers) (b. 1949)
- 2000Gerald Whitrow, British mathematician (b. 1912)
- 2000Svyatoslav Fyodorov, Russian ophthalmologist (b. 1927)
- 2001Frank Stagg, Baptist theologian (b. 1911)
- 2001Imogene Coca, American actress (b. 1908)
- 2001Joey Maxim, American boxer (b. 1922)
- 2003Fred Blassie, American professional wrestler (b. 1918)
- 2004Loyd Sigmon, American amateur radio broadcaster (b. 1909)
- 2005Chloe Jones, Model and pornographic actress (b. 1975)
- 2005Gunder Gundersen, Norwegian skier and sports official (b. 1930)
- 2005Melita Norwood, British spy (b. 1912)
- 2005Samir Kassir, Lebanese journalist and teacher (b. 1950)
- 2006Keith Smith, English rugby player (b. 1952)
- 2006Vince Welnick, musician, keyboardist (The Grateful Dead) (b. 1951)
- 2007Huang Ju, Chinese Vice-Premier (b. 1938)
- 2007Kentarō Haneda, Japanese composer (b. 1949)
- 2008Bo Diddley, American musician (b. 1928)
- 2008Mel Ferrer, American actor, film director and film producer (b. 1917)
- 2009David Eddings, American fantasy writer (b. 1931)
- 2011Willem Duys, Dutch commentator and music producer (b. 1928)
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