June 2

## Events 
### Up to 1950 
* 455 &ndash; Sack of Rome: Vandals enter Rome and plunder the city for two weeks.
* 1098 &ndash; First Crusade: At the end of a siege, Crusade forces take Antioch.
* 1676 &ndash; 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 &ndash; 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 &ndash; 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 &ndash; French Revolution: François Hanriot, leader of the Parisian National Guard, arrests 22 Girondists selected by Jean-Paul Marat.
* 1805 &ndash; 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 &ndash; P. T. Barnum's circus starts touring the United States.
* 1848 &ndash; The Slavic Congress in Prague begins.
* 1855 &ndash; The Rum Riot occurs in Portland, Maine.
* 1858 &ndash; Comet C/1858 L1 is discovered by Italian astronomer Giambattista Donati.
* 1864 &ndash; The Ionian Islands, previously a British protectorate, are given to Greece.
* 1876 &ndash; Bulgarian revolutionary Hristo Botev is killed.
* 1886 &ndash; Grover Cleveland marries Frances Folsom.
* 1896 &ndash; Guglielmo Marconi applies for a patent for the radio.
* 1909 &ndash; Alfred Deakin becomes Prime Minister of Australia for a third time.
* 1910 &ndash; Charles Rolls becomes the first person to make a non–stop crossing of the English Channel by aeroplane.
* 1919 &ndash; Anarchists simultaneously set of bombs in eight separate United States cities.
* 1924 &ndash; US President Calvin Coolidge signs the Indian Citizenship Act, giving equal citizenship to Native Americans born within the territory of the United States.
* 1941 &ndash; World War II: German paratroopers murder Greek civilians in the village of Kondomari.
* 1946 &ndash; In a referendum, voters in Italy support the formation of a Republic.

### 1951 &ndash; 2000 
* 1953 &ndash; Coronation of Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom.
* 1953 &ndash; The news of the first successful ascent of Mt. Everest reaches the UK.
* 1955 &ndash; The USSR and Yugoslavia sign the Belgrade Declaration.
* 1962 &ndash; The most violent match of the FIFA World Cup occurs in Chile as police have to intervene between Chilean and Italian footballers.
* 1965 &ndash; A cyclone kills over 30,000 people in Pakistan.
* 1966 &ndash; The Surveyor 1 spacecraft on the Moon.
* 1967 &ndash; German student Benno Ohnesorg is shot dead by police at a demonstration outside the Iranian Embassy.
* 1973 &ndash; Amsterdam's Vincent van Gogh Museum opens to the public.
* 1974 &ndash; Jigme Singye Wangchuck is crowned King of Bhutan.
* 1976 &ndash; 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 &ndash; 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 &ndash; The Uganda-Tanzania War ends, with Ugandan forces under Idi Amin being defeated.
* 1979 &ndash; Pope John Paul II visits Poland, his native country, for the first time in his papacy.
* 1980 &ndash; The Rubik's Cube goes on sale in West Germany.
* 1983 &ndash; 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 &ndash; 66 tornadoes hit an area across Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky and Ohio, killing 12 people, including 6 alone in Petersburg, Indiana.
* 1994 &ndash; A magnitude 7.8 earthquake strikes Java, killing 277 people.
* 1997 &ndash; Timothy McVeigh is convicted of the Oklahoma City bombing.
* 1999 &ndash; Bhutan starts television transmission.

### From 2001 
* 2003 &ndash; The Mars Express Space Probe launches from Baikonur, Kazakhstan.
* 2004 &ndash; Ken Jennings begins his 74–game winning run on the TV game show Jeopardy!.
* 2007 &ndash; Violence erupts at a demonstration in Rostock, northeastern Germany, while preparations are made for the G-8 summit in nearby Heiligendamm.
* 2010 &ndash; Prime Minister of Japan Yukio Hatoyama announces his resignation, less than 9 months after taking office. Naoto Kan succeeds him.
* 2010 &ndash; 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 &ndash; Former President of Egypt Hosni Mubarak is sentenced to life in prison for ordering killings during the 2011 Egyptian protests.
* 2014 &ndash; 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 &ndash; 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 &ndash; 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 &ndash; The German Bundestag officially recognizes the Armenian Genocide.
* 2017 &ndash; 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 &ndash; Emperor Murakami of Japan (d. 967)
*1423 &ndash; Ferdinand I of Naples (d. 1494)
*1535 &ndash; Pope Leo XI (d. 1605)
*1699 &ndash; Marie-Therese Rodet Geoffrin, French writer (d. 1677)
*1731 &ndash; Martha Washington, wife of George Washington, first First Lady of the United States (d. 1802)
*1737 &ndash; Ernest Augustus II, Duke of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach (d. 1758)
*1740 &ndash; Marquis de Sade, French writer (d. 1814)
*1773 &ndash; John Randolph of Roanoke, American planter and politician (d. 1833)
*1774 &ndash; William Lawson, explorer of New South Wales (d. 1850)
*1793 &ndash; Jacobus Josephus Eeckhout, Belgian painter (d. 1861)
*1813 &ndash; Daniel Pollen, 9th Prime Minister of New Zealand (d. 1896)
*1815 &ndash; Philip Kearny, American general (d. 1862)
*1821 &ndash; Ion C. Bratianu, Prime Minister of Romania (d. 1891)
*1823 &ndash; Gédéon Ouimet, 2nd Premier of Quebec (d. 1905)
*1835 &ndash; Pope Pius X (d. 1914)
*1835 &ndash; Nikolai Rubinstein, Russian pianist and composer (d. 1881)
*1838 &ndash; Duchess Alexandra Petrovna of Oldenburg (d. 1900)
*1840 &ndash; Thomas Hardy, English poet, novelist (d. 1928)
*1849 &ndash; Albert Besnard, French painter (d. 1934)
*1857 &ndash; Edward Elgar, English composer (d. 1934)
*1857 &ndash; Karl Adolph Gjellerup, Danish writer (d. 1919)
*1860 &ndash; Roger de Barbarin, French trap shooter (d. 1925)
*1861 &ndash; Helen Herron Taft, First Lady of the United States, wife of William Howard Taft (d. 1943)
*1863 &ndash; Felix Weingartner, composer and conductor (d. 1942)
*1881 &ndash; Walter Egan, American golfer (d. 1971)
*1885 &ndash; Hans Gerhard Creutzfeldt, German neurologist (d. 1964)
*1887 &ndash; Howard Johnson, American songwriter (d. 1941)
*1891 &ndash; Takijiro Onishi, Japanese World War II figure (d. 1945)
*1899 &ndash; Lotte Reiniger, German movie director (d. 1981)
*1899 &ndash; Edwin Way Teale, American environmentalist and photographer (d. 1980)

### 1901 &ndash; 1950 
*1902 &ndash; Giuseppe Lepori, Swiss politician (d. 1968)
*1904 &ndash; Johnny Weissmuller, American swimmer and actor (d. 1984)
*1906 &ndash; Carlo Scarpa, Italian architect (d. 1978)
*1907 &ndash; Dorothy West, American writer (d. 1998)
*1909 &ndash; Rudolf Brandt, German SS officer (d. 1948)
*1911 &ndash; Joe McCluskey, American runner (d. 2002)
*1913 &ndash; Barbara Pym, English writer (d. 1980)
*1913 &ndash; Walter Andreas Schwarz, German singer-songwriter and playwright (d. 2002)
*1913 &ndash; Elsie Tu, English–Hong Kong social activist (d. 2015)
*1915 &ndash; Alexandru Nicolschi, Romanian activist and agent (d. 1992)
*1915 &ndash; Walter Tetley, American voice actor (d. 1975)
*1917 &ndash; Max Showalter, American actor (d. 2000)
*1917 &ndash; Heinz Sielmann, German photographer, biologist, zoologist and documentary filmmaker (d. 2006)
*1920 &ndash; Marcel Reich-Ranicki, German literary critic (d. 2013)
*1920 &ndash; Frank G. Clement, Governor of Tennessee (d. 1969)
*1922 &ndash; Juan Antonio Bardem, Spanish movie director and screenwriter (d. 2002)
*1922 &ndash; Carmen Silvera, Canadian–English actress (d. 2002)
*1922 &ndash; Charlie Sifford, American golfer (d. 2015)
*1923 &ndash; Lloyd Shapley, American mathematician and economist (d. 2016)
*1925 &ndash; M. Caldwell Butler, American politician (d. 2014)
*1926 &ndash; Chiyonoyama Masanobu, Japanese sumo wrestler (d. 1977)
*1926 &ndash; Milo O'Shea, Irish–American actor (d. 2013)
*1927 &ndash; W. Watts Biggers, American novelist (d. 2014)
*1928 &ndash; Stig Claesson, Swedish writer and illustrator (d. 2008)
*1928 &ndash; Rafael Lecuona, Cuban–American gymnast (d. 2014)
*1929 &ndash; Ken McGregor, Australian tennis player (d. 2007)
*1930 &ndash; Pete Conrad, American astronaut (d. 1999)
*1930 &ndash; Vic Firth, American musician and instruments manufacturer (d. 2015)
*1931 &ndash; Viktor Tsaryov, Russian footballer (d. 2017)
*1933 &ndash; Horacio Ferrer, Uruguayan writer, poet and tango historian (d. 2014)
*1935 &ndash; Carol Shields, American–Canadian novelist (d. 2003)
*1936 &ndash; Volodymyr Holubnychy, Ukrainian race walker and Olympic champion
*1937 &ndash; Sally Kellerman, American actress
*1937 &ndash; Rosalyn Higgins, British jurist
*1938 &ndash; Cliff Cushman, American hurdler (d. 1966)
*1938 &ndash; Princess Désirée, Baroness Silfverchiöld of Sweden
*1940 &ndash; Constantine II, former King of Greece
*1941 &ndash; Stacy Keach, American actor
*1941 &ndash; Charlie Watts, English musician (The Rolling Stones)
*1941 &ndash; William Guest, American singer
*1941 &ndash; Lou Nanne, Canadian ice hockey player
*1943 &ndash; Crescenzio Sepe, Italian cardinal
*1943 &ndash; Ilaiyaraaja, Indian singer-songwriter and producer
*1944 &ndash; Marvin Hamlisch, American composer (d. 2012)
*1945 &ndash; Jon Peters, American movie producer
*1946 &ndash; Lasse Hallström, Swedish movie director
*1946 &ndash; Peter Sutcliffe, British serial killer
*1947 &ndash; Mark Elder, British conductor
*1948 &ndash; Todd Rundgren, American singer and producer

### 1951 &ndash; 1975 
*1951 &ndash; Larry Robinson, Canadian ice hockey player
*1951 &ndash; Arnold Mühren, Dutch footballer
*1951 &ndash; Khattiya Sawasdipol, Thai general (d. 2010) 
*1951 &ndash; Gilbert Baker, American gay rights activist (d. 2017)
*1952 &ndash; Pete Farndon, British musician (The Pretenders) (d. 1983)
*1953 &ndash; Keith Allen, British actor and comedian
*1953 &ndash; Cornel West, American theologian and activist
*1953 &ndash; Paul Engemann, American musician
*1955 &ndash; Michael Steele, American musician (The Bangles)
*1956 &ndash; Mani Ratnam, Indian movie director
*1957 &ndash; Mark Lawrenson, English footballer and commentator
*1958 &ndash; Lex Luger, American wrestler and football player
*1959 &ndash; Lydia Lunch, American singer-songwriter, guitarist and actress
*1960 &ndash; Olga Bondarenko, Russian Olympic gold medalist (athletics)
*1960 &ndash; Tony Hadley, English singer (Spandau Ballet)
*1963 &ndash; Bernard Cazeneuve, French politician
*1964 &ndash; Caroline Link, German movie director and screenwriter
*1965 &ndash; Mark Waugh, Australian cricketer
*1965 &ndash; Steve Waugh, Australian cricketer
*1966 &ndash; Pedro Guerra, Spanish singer-songwriter, guitarist and actress
*1968 &ndash; Jon Culshaw, British comedian and actor
*1968 &ndash; Beetlejuice, American comedian and actor
*1968 &ndash; Jason Falkner, American musician, songwriter and producer
*1969 &ndash; Paulo Sérgio Silvestre do Nascimento, Brazilian footballer
*1970 &ndash; B-Real, American rapper, producer and actor
*1971 &ndash; Anthony Montgomery, American actor
*1972 &ndash; Wayne Brady, American actor, comedian, game show host and singer
*1972 &ndash; Wentworth Miller, American actor
*1973 &ndash; Carlos Acosta, Cuban dancer
*1974 &ndash; Gata Kamsky, Russian–born American chess player

### From 1976 
*1976 &ndash; Earl Boykins, American basketball player
*1976 &ndash; Tim Rice-Oxley, English musician (Keane)
*1976 &ndash; Queen 'Masenate Mohato Seeiso of Lesotho
*1977 &ndash; Zachary Quinto, American actor
*1978 &ndash; Dominic Cooper, English actor
*1978 &ndash; Nikki Cox, American actress
*1978 &ndash; Justin Long, American actor
*1978 &ndash; Deon Richmond, American actor
*1978 &ndash; A. J. Styles, American wrestler
*1979 &ndash; Morena Baccarin, Brazilian actress
*1980 &ndash; Abby Wambach, American soccer player
*1981 &ndash; Nikolay Davydenko, Russian tennis player
*1983 &ndash; Christopher Higgins, American ice hockey player
*1983 &ndash; Leela James, American singer-songwriter
*1983 &ndash; Brooke White, American singer and actress
*1985 &ndash; Ana Cristina, American singer and actress
*1987 &ndash; Sonakshi Sinha, Indian actress
*1987 &ndash; Angelo Mathews, Sri Lankan cricketer
*1987 &ndash; Darin Zanyar, Swedish singer
*1988 &ndash; Patrik Berglund, Swedish ice hockey player
*1988 &ndash; Sergio Agüero, Argentine footballer
*1988 &ndash; Takashi Inui, Japanese footballer
*1989 &ndash; Freddy Adu, Ghanaian–born footballer
*1990 &ndash; Brittany Curran, American actress and singer
*1990 &ndash; Jack Lowden, Scottish actor
*1992 &ndash; Pajtim Kasami, Swiss footballer
*1994 &ndash; Jemma McKenzie-Brown, English actress
*1995 &ndash; Sterling Beaumon, American actor

## Deaths 
### Up to 1950 
* 657 &ndash; Pope Eugene I
* 829 &ndash; Saint Nicephorus, Patriarch of Constantinople (b. 758)
* 910 &ndash; Richilde of Provence, Queen of West Francia (b. 845)
* 1418 &ndash; Catherine of Lancaster, Queen Consort of Henry III of Castile (b. 1373)
* 1567 &ndash; Shane O'Neill, Irish king (b. 1530)
* 1581 &ndash; James Douglas, 4th Earl of Morton, regent of Scotland (b. 1525)
* 1701 &ndash; Madeleine de Scudéry, French writer (b. 1607)
* 1716 &ndash; Ogata Korin, Japanese painter (b. 1658)
* 1754 &ndash; Ebenezer Erskine, Scottish religious dissenter (b. 1680)
* 1761 &ndash; Jonas Alstromer, Swedish industrialist (b. 1685)
* 1785 &ndash; Jean Paul de Gua de Malves, French mathematician (b. 1713)
* 1875 &ndash; Jozef Kremer, Polish philosopher (b. 1806)
* 1876 &ndash; Hristo Botev, Bulgarian revolutionary (b. 1848)
* 1882 &ndash; Giuseppe Garibaldi, Italian patriot (b. 1807)
* 1933 &ndash; Frank Jarvis, American athlete (b. 1878)
* 1937 &ndash; Louis Vierne, French organist and composer (b. 1870)
* 1941 &ndash; Lou Gehrig, American baseball player (b. 1903)
* 1942 &ndash; Bunny Berigan, American singer, trumpeter and bandleader (b. 1908)
* 1948 &ndash; 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 &ndash; 2000 
* 1952 &ndash; Naum Torbov, Bulgarian architect (b. 1880)
* 1956 &ndash; Jean Hersholt, Danish actor and humanitarian (b. 1886)
* 1961 &ndash; George S. Kaufman, American playwright (b. 1889)
* 1962 &ndash; Vita Sackville-West, English writer (b. 1892)
* 1967 &ndash; Benno Ohnesorg, German student (b. 1940)
* 1968 &ndash; André Mathieu, Canadian pianist and composer (b. 1929)
* 1969 &ndash; Leo Gorcey, American actor (b. 1917)
* 1970 &ndash; Bruce McLaren, New Zealand racing driver and team founder (b. 1937)
* 1970 &ndash; Giuseppe Ungaretti, Italian poet (b. 1888)
* 1970 &ndash; Albert Lamorisse, French director and screenwriter (b. 1922)
* 1976 &ndash; Juan José Torres, President of Bolivia (b. 1920)
* 1978 &ndash; Santiago Bernabéu Yeste, Spanish footballer (b. 1895)
* 1981 &ndash; Rino Gaetano, Italian singer and musician (b. 1950)
* 1982 &ndash; Fazal Ilahi Chaudhry, Pakistani politician (b. 1904)
* 1983 &ndash; Stan Rogers, Canadian musician (b. 1949)
* 1987 &ndash; Andres Segovia, Spanish guitarist (b. 1893)
* 1988 &ndash; Raj Kapoor, Indian actor, movie producer and movie director (b. 1924)
* 1988 &ndash; Horace Hildreth, American politician, Governor of Maine (b. 1902)
* 1990 &ndash; Rex Harrison, British actor (b. 1908)
* 1992 &ndash; Philip Dunne, American movie director (b. 1908)
* 1994 &ndash; Henry Mancini, American composer (b. 1924)
* 1996 &ndash; Ray Combs, American comedian, actor and game show host (b. 1956)
* 1996 &ndash; Leon Garfield, English writer (b. 1921)
* 1997 &ndash; Helen Jacobs, American tennis player (b. 1908)
* 1998 &ndash; Junkyard Dog, American wrestler (b. 1952)
* 1999 &ndash; Junior Braithwaite, Jamaican musician (b. 1949)

### From 2001 
* 2005 &ndash; Gunder Gundersen, Norwegian skier (b. 1930)
* 2006 &ndash; Vince Welnick, musician (Grateful Dead) (b. 1951)
* 2007 &ndash; Huang Ju, Chinese Vice Premier (b. 1938)
* 2008 &ndash; Bo Diddley, American musician (b. 1928)
* 2008 &ndash; Mel Ferrer, American actor and movie director (b. 1917)
* 2009 &ndash; David Eddings, American writer (b. 1931)
* 2010 &ndash; Giuseppe Taddei, Italian operatic baritone (b. 1916)
* 2012 &ndash; Kathryn Joosten, American actress (b. 1939)
* 2012 &ndash; Richard Dawson, English–American actor, comedian and game show host (b. 1932)
* 2013 &ndash; Chen Xitong, Chinese politician, 8th Mayor of Beijing (b. 1930)
* 2014 &ndash; Alexander Shulgin, American medical scientist and author (b. 1925)
* 2014 &ndash; Duraisamy Simon Lourdusamy, Indian cardinal (b. 1924)
* 2014 &ndash; Kuaima Riruako, Namibian politician (b. 1935)
* 2014 &ndash; Anjan Das, Indian filmmaker (b. 1949)
* 2015 &ndash; Alberto De Martino, Italian movie director (b. 1929)
* 2015 &ndash; Irwin Rose, American biologist, winner of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry (b. 1926)
* 2015 &ndash; Theo Saat, Dutch Olympic sprinter (b. 1928)
* 2016 &ndash; Tom Kibble, British physicist (b. 1932)
* 2016 &ndash; Yevhen Lemeshko, Ukrainian football coach (b. 1930)
* 2016 &ndash; Abderrahmane Meziani, Algerian footballer (b. 1942)
* 2016 &ndash; Andrzej Niemczyk, Polish volleyball player and coach (b. 1944)
* 2016 &ndash; Freddie Wadling, Swedish singer-songwriter (b. 1951)
* 2017 &ndash; Gordon Christian, American ice hockey player (b. 1927)
* 2017 &ndash; Iakovos Garmatis, Greek–American church leader (b. 1928)
* 2017 &ndash; Syed Sharifuddin Pirzada, Pakistani lawyer and politician (b. 1923)
* 2017 &ndash; Peter Sallis, English actor (b. 1921)
* 2017 &ndash; Jeffrey Tate, English conductor (b. 1943)
* 2017 &ndash; Jack O'Neill, American businessman and surfer (b. 1923)
* 2018 &ndash; Paul D. Boyer, American chemist (b. 1918)
* 2018 &ndash; Tony Morphett, Australian screenwriter (b. 1938)
* 2018 &ndash; Bernard E. Trainor, American Marine Corps general, military analyst and journalist (b. 1928)
* 2018 &ndash; Emil Wolf, Czech–born American physicist (b. 1922)
* 2018 &ndash; Fernando Mazariegos, Guatemalan chemist and inventor (b. 1938)
* 2019 &ndash; Momtazuddin Ahmed, Bangladeshi dramatist and educator (b. 1935)
* 2019 &ndash; Alistair Browning, New Zealand actor (b. 1954)
* 2019 &ndash; Donald M. Fraser, American politician (b. 1924)
* 2019 &ndash; Barry Hughes, Welsh footballer (b. 1937)
* 2019 &ndash; Alexey Kazannik, Russian lawyer and politician (b. 1941)
* 2019 &ndash; Mart Nutt, Estonian politician and historian (b. 1962)
* 2019 &ndash; Maciej Parowski, Polish journalist, essayist, science fiction writer, editor and translator (b. 1946)

## Observances 
* Republic Day (Italy)
* Hristo Botev Day (Bulgaria)