Title: June 2 Content: == Events == === Up to 1950 === * 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. * 1676 - Franco-Dutch War: France ensures the dominance of its naval fleet for the remainder of the war, with victory at the Battle of Palermo * 1692 - Bridget Bishop becomes the first person to go on trial in the Salem witch trials in Massachusetts. She is found guilty and executed on June 10. * 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. * 1793 - French Revolution: François Hanriot, leader of the Parisian National Guard, arrests 22 Girondists selected by Jean-Paul Marat. * 1805 - Napoleonic Wars: A French- Spanish fleet recaptures Diamond Riot, an uninhabited island at the entrance to the bay leading to Fort-de-France, from the British. * 1835 – P. T. Barnum's circus starts touring the United States. * 1848 – The Slavic Congress in Prague begins. * 1855 - The Rum Riot occurs in Portland, Maine. * 1858 – Comet C/1858 L1 is discovered by Italian astronomer Giambattista Donati. * 1864 - The Ionian Islands, previously a British protectorate, are given to Greece. * 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. * 1941 - World War II: German paratroopers murder Greek civilians in the village of Kondomari. * 1946 – In a referendum, voters in Italy support the formation of a Republic. === 1951 2000 === * 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. * 1965 - A cyclone kills over 30,000 people in Pakistan. * 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. * 1973 - Amsterdam's Vincent van Gogh Museum opens to the public. * 1974 – Jigme Singye Wangchuck is crowned King of Bhutan. * 1976 - As part of Operation Condor, Bolivian President Juan José Torres is abducted and murdered. It is not known to what extent his successor Hugo Banzer was involved. * 1976 - The Third Cod War between the United Kingdom and Iceland ends in a temporary agreement, as the UK recognizes Iceland's claimed fishing zone of 200 nautical miles. * 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. * 1980 - The Rubik's Cube goes on sale in West Germany. * 1983 - After an emergency landing because of an inflight fire, 23 passengers on board Air Canada Flight 797 are killed when a flashover occurs as the plane's doors open. * 1990 - 66 tornadoes hit an area across Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky and Ohio, killing 12 people, including 6 alone in Petersburg, Indiana. * 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. === From 2001 === * 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!. * 2007 - Violence erupts at a demonstration in Rostock, northeastern Germany, while preparations are made for the G-8 summit in nearby Heiligendamm. * 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. * 2014 - In India, Telangana becomes the 29th State, as Andhra Pradesh is officially split in two. Hyderabad, which is in the new state, will serve as capital city of both states until 2024. * 2014 - King Juan Carlos I of Spain announces his intent to abdicate (leave) the throne. An official date for the handover is not yet set, as Felipe, Prince of Asturias is to succeed him as King. * 2015 - Sepp Blatter announces his intention to resign as President of FIFA, just four days after his controversial re-election to the post following a corruption scandal. * 2016 - The German Bundestag officially recognizes the Armenian Genocide. * 2017 - Leo Varadkar becomes the new leader of the Republic of Ireland's Fine Gael party, and is therefore set to become the country's next Taoiseach. == Births == === Up to 1900 === *926 – Emperor Murakami of Japan (d. 967) *1423 - Ferdinand I of Naples (d. 1494) *1535 – Pope Leo XI (d. 1605) *1699 - Marie-Therese Rodet Geoffrin, French writer (d. 1677) *1731 – Martha Washington, wife of George Washington, first First Lady of the United States (d. 1802) *1737 - Ernest Augustus II, Duke of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach (d. 1758) *1740 – Marquis de Sade, French writer (d. 1814) *1773 - John Randolph of Roanoke, American planter and politician (d. 1833) *1774 – William Lawson, explorer of New South Wales (d. 1850) *1793 - Jacobus Josephus Eeckhout, Belgian painter (d. 1861) *1813 – Daniel Pollen, 9th Prime Minister of New Zealand (d. 1896) *1815 - Philip Kearny, American general (d. 1862) *1821 - Ion C. Bratianu, Prime Minister of Romania (d. 1891) *1823 - Gédéon Ouimet, 2nd Premier of Quebec (d. 1905) *1835 – Pope Pius X (d. 1914) *1835 – Nikolai Rubinstein, Russian pianist and composer (d. 1881) *1838 - Duchess Alexandra Petrovna of Oldenburg (d. 1900) *1840 – Thomas Hardy, English poet, novelist (d. 1928) *1849 - Albert Besnard, French painter (d. 1934) *1857 – Edward Elgar, English composer (d. 1934) *1857 – Karl Adolph Gjellerup, Danish writer (d. 1919) *1860 - Roger de Barbarin, French trap shooter (d. 1925) *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) *1881 - Walter Egan, American golfer (d. 1971) *1885 – Hans Gerhard Creutzfeldt, German neurologist (d. 1964) *1887 - Howard Johnson, American songwriter (d. 1941) *1891 – Takijiro Onishi, Japanese World War II figure (d. 1945) *1899 – Lotte Reiniger, German movie director (d. 1981) *1899 - Edwin Way Teale, American environmentalist and photographer (d. 1980) === 1901 1950 === *1902 - Giuseppe Lepori, Swiss politician (d. 1968) *1904 – Johnny Weissmuller, American swimmer and actor (d. 1984) *1906 - Carlo Scarpa, Italian architect (d. 1978) *1907 – Dorothy West, American writer (d. 1998) *1909 - Rudolf Brandt, German SS officer (d. 1948) *1911 - Joe McCluskey, American runner (d. 2002) *1913 – Barbara Pym, English writer (d. 1980) *1913 - Walter Andreas Schwarz, German singer-songwriter and playwright (d. 2002) *1913 - Elsie Tu, English-Hong Kong social activist (d. 2015) *1915 - Alexandru Nicolschi, Romanian activist and agent (d. 1992) *1915 – Walter Tetley, American voice actor (d. 1975) *1917 – Max Showalter, American actor (d. 2000) *1917 - Heinz Sielmann, German photographer, biologist, zoologist and documentary filmmaker (d. 2006) *1920 – Marcel Reich-Ranicki, German literary critic (d. 2013) *1920 – Frank G. Clement, Governor of Tennessee (d. 1969) *1922 – Juan Antonio Bardem, Spanish movie director and screenwriter (d. 2002) *1922 - Carmen Silvera, Canadian-English actress (d. 2002) *1922 - Charlie Sifford, American golfer (d. 2015) *1923 - Lloyd Shapley, American mathematician and economist (d. 2016) *1925 - M. Caldwell Butler, American politician (d. 2014) *1926 - Chiyonoyama Masanobu, Japanese sumo wrestler (d. 1977) *1926 - Milo O'Shea, Irish-American actor (d. 2013) *1927 - W. Watts Biggers, American novelist (d. 2014) *1928 – Stig Claesson, Swedish writer and illustrator (d. 2008) *1928 - Rafael Lecuona, Cuban-American gymnast (d. 2014) *1929 – Ken McGregor, Australian tennis player (d. 2007) *1930 - Pete Conrad, American astronaut (d. 1999) *1930 - Vic Firth, American musician and instruments manufacturer (d. 2015) *1931 - Viktor Tsaryov, Russian footballer (d. 2017) *1933 - Horacio Ferrer, Uruguayan writer, poet and tango historian (d. 2014) *1935 – Carol Shields, American-Canadian novelist (d. 2003) *1936 – Volodymyr Holubnychy, Ukrainian race walker and Olympic champion *1937 – Sally Kellerman, American actress *1937 - Rosalyn Higgins, British jurist *1938 - Cliff Cushman, American hurdler (d. 1966) *1938 - Princess Désirée, Baroness Silfverchiöld of Sweden *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 *1941 - Lou Nanne, Canadian ice hockey player *1943 - Crescenzio Sepe, Italian cardinal *1943 - Ilaiyaraaja, Indian singer-songwriter and producer *1944 - Marvin Hamlisch, American composer (d. 2012) *1945 - Jon Peters, American movie producer *1946 – Lasse Hallström, Swedish movie director *1946 – Peter Sutcliffe, British serial killer *1947 - Mark Elder, British conductor *1948 – Todd Rundgren, American singer and producer === 1951 1975 === *1951 - Larry Robinson, Canadian ice hockey player *1951 - Arnold Mühren, Dutch footballer *1951 - Khattiya Sawasdipol, Thai general (d. 2010) *1951 - Gilbert Baker, American gay rights activist (d. 2017) *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 movie director *1957 – Mark Lawrenson, English footballer and commentator *1958 - Lex Luger, American wrestler and football player *1959 - Lydia Lunch, American singer-songwriter, guitarist and actress *1960 – Olga Bondarenko, Russian Olympic gold medalist (athletics) *1960 – Tony Hadley, English singer (Spandau Ballet) *1963 - Bernard Cazeneuve, French politician *1964 – Caroline Link, German movie director and screenwriter *1965 – Mark Waugh, Australian cricketer *1965 – Steve Waugh, Australian cricketer *1966 - Pedro Guerra, Spanish singer-songwriter, guitarist and actress *1968 - Jon Culshaw, British comedian and actor *1968 - Beetlejuice, American comedian and actor *1968 - Jason Falkner, American musician, songwriter and producer *1969 - Paulo Sérgio Silvestre do Nascimento, Brazilian footballer *1970 - B-Real, American rapper, producer and actor *1971 - Anthony Montgomery, American actor *1972 - Wayne Brady, American actor, comedian, game show host and singer *1972 – Wentworth Miller, American actor *1973 - Carlos Acosta, Cuban dancer *1974 - Gata Kamsky, Russian-born American chess player === From 1976 === *1976 - Earl Boykins, American basketball player *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 *1978 - Deon Richmond, American actor *1978 - A. J. Styles, American wrestler *1979 - Morena Baccarin, Brazilian actress *1980 – Abby Wambach, American soccer player *1981 – Nikolay Davydenko, Russian tennis player *1983 – Christopher Higgins, American ice hockey player *1983 - Leela James, American singer- songwriter *1983 - Brooke White, American singer and actress *1985 – Ana Cristina, American singer and actress *1987 - Sonakshi Sinha, Indian actress *1987 - Angelo Mathews, Sri Lankan cricketer *1987 – Darin Zanyar, Swedish singer *1988 – Patrik Berglund, Swedish ice hockey player *1988 – Sergio Agüero, Argentine footballer *1988 - Takashi Inui, Japanese footballer *1989 – Freddy Adu, Ghanaian-born footballer *1990 – Brittany Curran, American actress and singer *1990 - Jack Lowden, Scottish actor *1992 – Pajtim Kasami, Swiss footballer *1994 - Jemma McKenzie-Brown, English actress *1995 - Sterling Beaumon, American actor == Deaths == === Up to 1950 === * 657 – Pope Eugene I * 829 – Saint Nicephorus, Patriarch of Constantinople (b. 758) * 910 – Richilde of Provence, Queen of West Francia (b. 845) * 1418 - Catherine of Lancaster, Queen Consort of Henry III of Castile (b. 1373) * 1567 - Shane O'Neill, Irish king (b. 1530) * 1581 – James Douglas, 4th Earl of Morton, regent of Scotland (b. 1525) * 1701 – Madeleine de Scudéry, French writer (b. 1607) * 1716 - Ogata Korin, Japanese painter (b. 1658) * 1754 – Ebenezer Erskine, Scottish religious dissenter (b. 1680) * 1761 – Jonas Alstromer, Swedish industrialist (b. 1685) * 1785 - Jean Paul de Gua de Malves, French mathematician (b. 1713) * 1875 - Jozef Kremer, Polish philosopher (b. 1806) * 1876 – Hristo Botev, Bulgarian revolutionary (b. 1848) * 1882 – Giuseppe Garibaldi, Italian patriot (b. 1807) * 1933 – Frank Jarvis, American athlete (b. 1878) * 1937 - Louis Vierne, French organist and composer (b. 1870) * 1941 – Lou Gehrig, American baseball player (b. 1903) * 1942 - Bunny Berigan, American singer, trumpeter and bandleader (b. 1908) * 1948 - Nazi war criminals executed: **Viktor Brack, German physician (b. 1904) **Karl Brandt, German SS officer (b. 1904) **Rudolf Brandt, German SS officer (b. 1909) **Karl Gebhardt, German physician (b. 1897) **Waldemar Hoven, German physician (b. 1903) **Wolfram Sievers, German SS officer (b. 1905) === 1951 2000 === * 1952 - Naum Torbov, Bulgarian architect (b. 1880) * 1956 - Jean Hersholt, Danish actor and humanitarian (b. 1886) * 1961 - George S. Kaufman, American playwright (b. 1889) * 1962 – Vita Sackville-West, English writer (b. 1892) * 1967 – Benno Ohnesorg, German student (b. 1940) * 1968 - André Mathieu, Canadian pianist and composer (b. 1929) * 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) * 1970 - Albert Lamorisse, French director and screenwriter (b. 1922) * 1976 – Juan José Torres, President of Bolivia (b. 1920) * 1978 - Santiago Bernabéu Yeste, Spanish footballer (b. 1895) * 1981 - Rino Gaetano, Italian singer and musician (b. 1950) * 1982 - Fazal Ilahi Chaudhry, Pakistani politician (b. 1904) * 1983 – Stan Rogers, Canadian musician (b. 1949) * 1987 – Andres Segovia, Spanish guitarist (b. 1893) * 1988 – Raj Kapoor, Indian actor, movie producer and movie director (b. 1924) * 1988 - Horace Hildreth, American politician, Governor of Maine (b. 1902) * 1990 – Rex Harrison, British actor (b. 1908) * 1992 – Philip Dunne, American movie director (b. 1908) * 1994 – Henry Mancini, American composer (b. 1924) * 1996 - Ray Combs, American comedian, actor and game show host (b. 1956) * 1996 - Leon Garfield, English writer (b. 1921) * 1997 – Helen Jacobs, American tennis player (b. 1908) * 1998 - Junkyard Dog, American wrestler (b. 1952) * 1999 – Junior Braithwaite, Jamaican musician (b. 1949) === From 2001 === * 2005 - Gunder Gundersen, Norwegian skier (b. 1930) * 2006 – Vince Welnick, musician (Grateful Dead) (b. 1951) * 2007 – Huang Ju, Chinese Vice Premier (b. 1938) * 2008 – Bo Diddley, American musician (b. 1928) * 2008 – Mel Ferrer, American actor and movie director (b. 1917) * 2009 – David Eddings, American writer (b. 1931) * 2010 – Giuseppe Taddei, Italian operatic baritone (b. 1916) * 2012 – Kathryn Joosten, American actress (b. 1939) * 2012 - Richard Dawson, English-American actor, comedian and game show host (b. 1932) * 2013 - Chen Xitong, Chinese politician, 8th Mayor of Beijing (b. 1930) * 2014 - Alexander Shulgin, American medical scientist and author (b. 1925) * 2014 - Duraisamy Simon Lourdusamy, Indian cardinal (b. 1924) * 2014 - Kuaima Riruako, Namibian politician (b. 1935) * 2014 - Anjan Das, Indian filmmaker (b. 1949) * 2015 - Alberto De Martino, Italian movie director (b. 1929) * 2015 - Irwin Rose, American biologist, winner of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry (b. 1926) * 2015 - Theo Saat, Dutch Olympic sprinter (b. 1928) * 2016 - Tom Kibble, British physicist (b. 1932) * 2016 - Yevhen Lemeshko, Ukrainian football coach (b. 1930) * 2016 - Abderrahmane Meziani, Algerian footballer (b. 1942) * 2016 - Andrzej Niemczyk, Polish volleyball player and coach (b. 1944) * 2016 - Freddie Wadling, Swedish singer-songwriter (b. 1951) * 2017 - Gordon Christian, American ice hockey player (b. 1927) * 2017 - Iakovos Garmatis, Greek-American church leader (b. 1928) * 2017 - Syed Sharifuddin Pirzada, Pakistani lawyer and politician (b. 1923) * 2017 - Peter Sallis, English actor (b. 1921) * 2017 - Jeffrey Tate, English conductor (b. 1943) * 2017 - Jack O'Neill, American businessman and surfer (b. 1923) * 2018 - Paul D. Boyer, American chemist (b. 1918) * 2018 - Tony Morphett, Australian screenwriter (b. 1938) * 2018 - Bernard E. Trainor, American Marine Corps general, military analyst and journalist (b. 1928) * 2018 - Emil Wolf, Czech-born American physicist (b. 1922) * 2018 - Fernando Mazariegos, Guatemalan chemist and inventor (b. 1938) * 2019 - Momtazuddin Ahmed, Bangladeshi dramatist and educator (b. 1935) * 2019 - Alistair Browning, New Zealand actor (b. 1954) * 2019 - Donald M. Fraser, American politician (b. 1924) * 2019 - Barry Hughes, Welsh footballer (b. 1937) * 2019 - Alexey Kazannik, Russian lawyer and politician (b. 1941) * 2019 - Mart Nutt, Estonian politician and historian (b. 1962) * 2019 - Maciej Parowski, Polish journalist, essayist, science fiction writer, editor and translator (b. 1946) == Observances == * Republic Day (Italy) * Hristo Botev Day (Bulgaria) June 02