June 2
Henry VIII
Guglielmo Marconi
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June 2
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| Benedict I begins his reign as Catholic Pope | ||
| St Eugene I ends his reign as Catholic Pope | ||
| 1129 Fulco V's son Godfried marries king Henry I's daughter Mathildis | ||
Henry VIII |
1491 Henry VIII, King of England was born (1509-47) | |
| 1577 Giovanni Righi, composer was born | ||
| 1619 England & Netherlands signs 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 Monarch August van Saksen becomes Catholic | ||
| 1746 Russia & Austria sign agreements | ||
| 1774 England passed Quartering Act, mandating Colonists must board English troops in their homes |
Guglielmo Marconi |
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| 1780 Anti Catholic demonstration attacks parliament in London | ||
| 1851 1st US alcohol prohibition law enacted (Maine) | ||
| 1863 Harriet Tubman leads Union guerrillas into Maryland, freeing slaves | ||
| 1866 Renegade Irish Fenians surrender to US forces | ||
| 1875 James Augustine Healey became 1st Black Catholic Bishop in US | ||
| 1881 Haarlem-Zandvoort Railway opens | ||
| 1886 U.S. President Grover Cleveland married Frances Folsom in a White House ceremony | ||
| 1896 Guglielmo Marconi patents the radio | ||
| 1897 Mark Twain, then 61, was quoted by the New York Journal as saying from London that "the report of my death was an exaggeration." | ||
| 1904 Professor Schron finds microbe that causes photosynthesis | ||
| 1914 Glenn Curtiss flies his Langley Aerodrome | ||
| 1916 German troops under Lt Rackow take Fort Vaux | ||
| 1919 Pulitzer prize awarded to Carl Sandburg (Cornhuskers) | ||
| 1920 Pulitzer prize awarded to Eugene O'Neill (Beyond the Horizon) | ||
| 1924 Snyder Act: US citizenship granted to all American Indians | ||
| 1936 Gen Anastasio Somoza takes over as dictator of Nicaragua | ||
| 1940 Heavy German bombing on Dunkirk beach | ||
| 1941 baseball's "Iron Horse," Lou Gehrig, died in New York of a degenerative disease, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis. | ||
| 1943 German assault on Sebastopol Krim, begins | ||
| 1944 Generals Eisenhower & Montgomery dine in Portsmouth | ||
| 1946 Italian plebiscite chooses republic over monarchy (National Day) | ||
| 1949 Transjordan renamed Jordan | ||
| 1951 Pope Pius XII publishes encyclical Evangelii praecones | ||
| 1952 650,000 metal workers go on strike in US | ||
| 1953 Queen Elizabeth II was crowned in Westminster Abbey, 16 months after the death of her father, King George VI. | ||
| 1954 John Costello (Cons) becomes premier of Ireland | ||
| 1965 2nd of 2 cyclones in less than a month kills 35,000 (Ganges R India) | ||
| 1966 the U.S. space probe "Surveyor One" landed on the moon and began transmitting detailed photographs of the lunar surface. | ||
| 1968 Canadians must get govt permission to export silver | ||
| 1969 Australian aircraft carrier "Melbourne" slices US destroyer | ||
| 1974 Mali adopts constitution | ||
| 1974 Malta's constitution goes into effect | ||
| 1975 1st time snow fell in London in June | ||
| 1975 U.S. Vice President Nelson Rockefeller said his commission had found no widespread pattern of illegal activities at the Central Intelligence Agency. | ||
| 1975 James A Healy, 1st black Roman Catholic bishop, consecrated (Maine) | ||
| 1976 East-Timor People's Assembly accepts annexation through Indonesia | ||
| 1979 John Paul II becomes 1st pope to visit a communist country (Poland) | ||
| 1979 Pope John Paul II visits Poland | ||
| 1985 Andreas Papandreous PASOK-party wins election in Greece | ||
| 1987 U.S. President Ronald Reagan announced he was nominating economist Alan Greenspan to succeed Paul Volcker as chairman of the Federal Reserve Board. | ||
| 1989 10,000 Chinese soldiers are blocked by 100,000 citizens protecting | ||
| 1991 4th Children's Miracle Network Telethon | ||
| 1994 Chinook helicopter crashes in North Scotland (29 killed) | ||
| 1994 Indonesian censors ban Steven Spielberg's "Schindler's List" | ||
| 1997 Liberals beat Conservatives in France | ||
| 1997 Timothy McVeigh found guilty of 1995 Okla City bombing, killing 168 | ||
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