On this day in History - June 2

• 0455 - The Vandals enter Rome, and plunder the city for two weeks. They depart with countless valuables, spoils of the Temple in Jerusalem brought to Rome by Titus, and the Empress Eudoxia and her daughters Eudocia and Placidia.
• 0575 - Benedict I becomes Pope.
• 0657 - St. Eugene I becomes Pope.
• 0829 - Saint Nicephorus dies (b. 0758). Patriarch of Constantinople.
• 0910 - Richilde of Provence dies. Queen of Western Francia
• 0926 - Murakami was born (d. 0967). Emperor of Japan.
• 1098 - Crusader forces breach the city walls of Antioch.
• 1418 - Katherine of Lancaster dies. Wife of Henry III of Castile
• 1535 - Pope Leo XI was born (d. 1605) .
• 1567 - Shane O'Neill dies. Irish chieftain
• 1572 - Thomas Howard 4th Duke of Norfolk, is executed (Tower of London);
• 1581 - James Douglas, 4th Earl of Morton dies. Regent of Scotland
• 1615 - First Récollet missionaries arrive at Quebec City, from Rouen, France.
• 1693 - John Wildman dies. English soldier and politician.
• 1701 - Madeleine de Scudéry was born (b. 1607). French writer.
• 1716 - Ogata Korin dies (b. c. 1657). Japanese painter.
• 1731 - Martha Washington was born (d. 1802). First American first lady.
• 1740 - Marquis de Sade was born (d. 1814). French author.
• 1743 - Count Alessandro di Cagliostro was born (d. 1795). Sicilian Occultist.
• 1754 - Ebenezer Erskine dies (b. 1680). Scottish religious dissenter.
• 1761 - Jonas Alströmer diesd (b. 1685). Swedish industrialist.
• 1763 - Pontiac'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.
• 1773 - John Randolph was born (d. 1833). US Senator from Virginia.
• 1774 - Intolerable Acts: The Quartering Act, requiring American colonists to let British soldiers into their homes, is reenacted.
• 1774 - William Lawson was born (d. 1850). Explorer of New South Wales, Australia.
• 1780 - The Derby, horse race, was first held.
• 1785 - Jean Paul de Gua de Malves dies (b. 1713). French mathematician.
• 1787 - Nils Gabriel Sefström was born (d. 30 Nov 1845). Swedish chemist who discovered the element vanadium
• 1793 - Jean Paul Marat recites the names of 29 people to the French National Convention. Almost all of these are guillotined, followed by 17,000 more over the course of the next year during the Reign of Terror.
• 1800 - First smallpox vaccination in North America, at Trinity, Newfoundland.
• 1821 - Ion C. Bratinau was born (d. 1891). Romanian statesman.
• 1823 - Gédéon Ouimet was born (d. 1905). French Canadian politician.
• 1833 - Simon Byrne dies (b. 1806). Irish bare-knuckle prize fighter.
• 1835 - Pope Pius X was born (d. 1914).
• 1835 - P.T. Barnum and his circus begins first tour of the U.S.
• 1836 - Mily Balakirev was born (d. 1910). Russian composer.
• 1837 - António Dias de Oliveira assume o cargo de primeiro-ministro de Portugal
• 1840 - Thomas Hardy was born (d. 1928). English poet, novelist.
• 1848 - Slavic congress in Prague begins.
• 1854 - "Comércio do Porto" was founded. Portuguese newspaper
• 1855 - the Portland Rum Riot occurs in Portland, Maine
• 1857 - Edward Elgar was born (d. 1934). English composer.
• 1857 - Karl Adolph Gjellerup was born (d. 1919). Danish writer.
• 1863 - Felix Weingartner was born (d. 1942). Yugoslavian conductor
• 1865 - George Lohmann was born (d. 1901). English cricketer.
• 1865 - American Civil War ends - Forces under Confederate General Edmund Kirby Smith surrender at Galveston, Texas, becoming the last to do so.
• 1865 - Ner Alexander Middleswarth dies (b. 1783). American politician.
• 1866 - Luisa Caceres de Arismendi dies. Venezuelan heroin.
• 1869 - Jack O'Connor was born (d. 1937). Baseball player.
• 1875 - Józef Kremer dies (b. 1806). Polish messianistic philosopher.
• 1876 - Hristo Botev dies (b. 1848). Bulgarian revolutionary.
• 1881 - Émile Littré dies (b. 1801). French lexicographer.
• 1882 - Giuseppe Garibaldi dies (b. 1807). Italian revolutionarist.
• 1886 - U.S. President Grover Cleveland marries Frances Folsom in the White House, becoming the only president to wed in the executive mansion.
• 1887 - Howard Johnson was born (d. 1941). American songwriter.
• 1888 - "Jornal de Notícias" was found. Portuguese newspaper
• 1891 - Thurman Arnold was born (d. 1969). American attorney and jurist.
• 1896 - Guglielmo Marconi receives a patent for his newest invention: the radio.
• 1897 - Mark Twain, responding to rumors that he was dead, is quoted by the New York Journal as saying, "The report of my death was an exaggeration."
• 1899 - Lotte Reiniger was born (d. 1981). German film director.
• 1901 - George Leslie Mackay dies (b. 1844). Canadian missionary.
• 1903 - Max Aub Mohrenwitz was born in Paris (d. 22 Jul 1972 ". "No quiero esquelas, no quiero flores, sólo una piedra, con mi nombre y primer apellido y las fechas"). Writer " escritor y cineasta arriesgado, hombre integral de cien nacionalidades y español del éxodo sin llanto... ".Los poemas cotidianos (1930), Teatro incompleto (1930), Espejo de avaricia (1935) Yo vivo (1936). La gallina ciega, diario español (1971) ; ciclo El laberinto mágico, Juego de cartas (1964).
• 1904 - Frank Runacres was born (d. 1974). English artist.
• 1904 - Johnny Weissmuller [Peter Jonas Weissmuller] was born (d. 1984). American swimmer and actor (Tarzan).
• 1907 - Dorothy West was born (d. 1998). American writer.
• 1909 - Alfred Deakin becomes Prime Minister of Australia for the third time.
• 1912 - Francisco Lázaro vence a Maratona organizada em Lisboa pela revista Tiro e Sport. Lázaro morreria nos Jogos Olímpicos de Estocolmo, ao correr a Maratona.
• 1913 - Barbara Pym was born (d. 1980). English novelist.
• 1915 - Walter Tetley was born (d. 1975). American voice actor.
• 1917 - Heinz Sielmann was born. German photographer and filmmaker.
• 1920 - Marcel Reich-Ranicki was born. Polish critic.
• 1920 - Tex Schramm was born (d. 2003). American football team president and general manager.
• 1920 - Frank G. Clement was born (d. 1969). Governor of Tennessee.
• 1922 - Juan Antonio Bardem was born (d. 2002). Spanish director and screenwriter.
• 1922 - Charlie Sifford was born. First African American golfer on the PGA TOUR.
• 1924 - U.S. President Calvin Coolidge signs Indian Citizenship Act into law, granting citizenship to all Native Americans born within the territorial limits of the United States.
• 1924 - June Callwood was born (d. 2007). Canadian jounalist, author & social activist.
• 1925 - Wally Pipp, first baseman of the New York Yankees, asks for a day off due to a headache. He is replaced in the lineup by Lou Gehrig, who also starts the next 2,128 consecutive games.
• 1926 - Milo O'Shea was born. Irish actor.
• 1928 - Adela Zamudio dies (b. 11 Oct 1854). Bolivian writer.
• 1929 - Norton Juster was born. American author and architect.
• 1930 - Pete Conrad was born (d. 1999). American astronaut.
• 1930 - Bob Lillis was born. Baseball player.
• 1931 - Larry Jackson was born (d. 1990). Baseball player.
• 1932 - Inaugurada a Estação Fluvial do Terreiro do Paço em Lisboa.
• 1932 - D. Manuel II dies. Last Portuguese King
• 1933 - Frank Jarvis dies (b. 1878). American athlete.
• 1935 - Baseballer Babe Ruth announces he is going to retire from the sport.
• 1935 - Carol Shields was born (d. 2003). American-born novelist.
• 1935 - Roger Brierley was born (d. 2005). English actor.
• 1935 - Dimitri Kitsikis was born. Greek turkologist, professor of International Relations and Geopolitics at the University of Ottawa
• 1936 - Sally Kellerman was born. American actress.
• 1937 - Jimmy Jones (singer) was born. American singer and songwriter.
• 1937 - Louis Vierne dies (b. 1870). French organist and composer.
• 1940 - King Constantine II of Greece was born.
• 1941 - Stacy Keach was born. American actor.
• 1941 - Charlie Watts was born. English musician (The Rolling Stones)
• 1941 - William Guest was born. American singer (Gladys Knight & the Pips)
• 1941 - Lou Gehrig dies (b. 1903). American baseball player.
• 1942 - Barry Levinson was born. American producer.
• 1943 - Peter Heisterkamp, aka Palermo, was born (d. 1977). Artist.
• 1943 - Charles Haid was born. American actor.
• 1943 - Ilaiyaraaja was born. Indian composer.
• 1944 - Marvin Hamlisch was born. American composer, musician.
• 1945 - Jon Peters was born. American film producer and hairdresser.
• 1946 - Birth of the Italian Republic: In a referendum Italians decide to turn Italy from a monarchy into a Republic. After this referendum the king of Italy Umberto II di Savoia was exiled.
• 1946 - Peter Sutcliffe was born. English murderer
• 1946 - Lasse Hallström was born. Swedish film director
• 1947 - Mark Elder was born. British opera and symphony conductor
• 1948 - Jerry Mathers was born. American actor
• 1948 - Todd Rundgren was born. American singer and producer.
• 1948 - Viktor Brack dies (b. 1904). Nazi physician.
• 1948 - Karl Brandt dies (b. 1904). Personal physician of Adolf Hitler
• 1948 - Karl Gebhardt dies (b. 1897). Nazi doctor.
• 1948 - Waldemar Hoven dies (b. 1903). German physian.
• 1948 - Wolfram Sievers dies (b,. 1905). Nazi physician.
• 1949 - Heather Couper was born. British astronomer
• 1949 - Frank Rich was born. American theater critic and political columnist
• 1951 - Larry Robinson was born. Canadian hockey player.
• 1952 - Gary Bettman was born. American National Hockey League commissioner.
• 1952 - Ana Cristina Cruz César was born in Rio de Janeiro. Brazilian poetess.
• 1953 - Summit of Everest reached for the first time.
• 1953 - Coronation of Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom, the first to be televised.
• 1953 - Craig Stadler was born. American golfer.
• 1954 - Dennis Haysbert was born. American actor
• 1955 - USSR and Yugoslavia sign the Belgrade declaration and thus normalize relations between both countries, discontinued since 1948.
• 1955 - Dana Carvey was born. American actor, comedian
• 1955 - Michael Steele was born. American musician (The Bangles)
• 1955 - Chantal Hochuli was born. Swiss-born socialite
• 1956 - Mani Ratnam was born. Indian director.
• 1956 - Jean Hersholt dies (b. 1886). Danish actor and humanitarian.
• 1957 - King Lizzard was born. American entertainer
• 1958 - Lawrence Pfohl was born. American professional wrestler
• 1958 - Lex Luger was born. Professional wrestler
• 1959 - Lydia Lunch was born. American singer
• 1960 - Kyle Petty was born. American race car driver
• 1960 - Tony Hadley was born. English singer (Spandau Ballet)
• 1961 - Dez Cadena was born. American musician
• 1961 - George S. Kaufman dies (b. 1889). American playwright.
• 1962 - Vita Sackville-West dies (b. 1892). English writer, gardener.
• 1962 - Clyde Drexler was born. American basketball player
• 1964 - The Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) was founded
• 1964 - Caroline Link was born. German film director and screenwriter
• 1965 - Jim Knipfel was born. American autobiographer and journalist
• 1965 - Steve Waugh and Mark Waugh were born. Australian cricketeers
• 1965 - Vietnam War: The first contingent of Australian combat troops arrives in South Vietnam.
• 1966 - Surveyor program: Surveyor 1 lands in Oceanus Procellarumon the Moon, becoming the first US spacecraft to soft land on another world.
• 1966 - In the Congo, the four former ministers sentenced to death for treason, murder, and an attempted coup by Joseph-Désiré Mobutu's military government, are hanged.
• 1967 - The Beatles release their landmark Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band album in the USA, a day after it is released in the UK.
• 1967 - Protests 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.
• 1967 - Mike Stanton was born. Baseball player
• 1967 - Benno Ohnesorg dies (b. 1940). German student of Romance languages and literature.
• 1968 - Jon Culshaw was born. British comedian.
• 1968 - André Mathieu dies (b. 1929). Quebec pianist and composer.
• 1969 - In Ottawa, Canada the National Arts Center opens its doors to the public for the first time.
• 1969 - Thurman Arnold dies (b. 1891). American attorney and jurist.
• 1969 - Leo Gorcey dies (b. 1917). American actor.
• 1970 - B Real was born. Rapper
• 1970 - Bruce McLaren dies (b. 1937). New Zealand car racer, designer, manufacturer.
• 1970 - Giuseppe Ungaretti dies (b. 1888). Italian poet.
• 1970 - Albert Lamorisse dies (b. 1922). French film director and screenwriter.
• 1971 - Anthony Montgomery was born. American actor.
• 1971 - Kateřina Jacques was born. Czech politician.
• 1972 - Wentworth Miller was born. American actor.
• 1972 - Wayne Brady was born. American actor, comedian.
• 1973 - Neifi Perez was born. Dominican-born baseball player
• 1974 - Chris Harris was born. American professional wrestler
• 1974 - Gata Kamsky was born. American chess player
• 1975 - Em Portugal, inaugurou-se a Assembleia Constituinte, responsável pela redacção da Primeira Constituição após a Revolução de Abril de 1974
• 1975 - French sex workers occupied a Lyon church in protest against excessive fines and taxes, as well as a lack of police action against violence, thereby sparking the birth of the modern sex worker rights movement.
• 1976 - Earl Boykins was born. American basketball player.
• 1976 - Tim Rice-Oxley was born. English musician (Keane)
• 1977 - Zachary Quinto was born. American actor.
• 1977 - Stephen Boyd dies (b. 1931). Northern Irish actor.
• 1978 - Nikki Cox was born. American actress
• 1978 - Justin Long was born. American actor
• 1978 - Dominic Cooper was born. English actor
• 1978 - A.J. Styles was born. American professional wrestler
• 1978 - Santiago Bernabéu dies. President of Real Madrid.
• 1979 - Pope John Paul II visits his native Poland, becoming the first Pope to visit a Communist country.
• 1979 - Jim Hutton dies (b. 1934). American actor.
• 1980 - Fabrizio Moretti was born. American rock drummer (The Strokes)
• 1982 - Jewel Staite was born. Canadian actress
• 1982 - Fazal Ilahi Chaudhry dies (b. 1904). Pakistani politician.
• 1983 - Christopher Higgins was born. American hockey player
• 1984 - Raul Bopp dies (b. 4 Aug 1898). Brazilian journalist and poet.
• 1984 - Georgios Kasassoglou dies (b. 1908). Greek musician.
• 1985 - Serial killer Leonard Lake is arrested near San Francisco, California for shoplifting.
• 1985 - R.J. Reynolds and Nabisco propose a merger.
• 1985 - Uefa bans English clubs from Europe indefinitely, after the riot at Brussels' Heysel stadium in which 39 people died
• 1985 - Yang Yu was born. Chinese swimmer
• 1986 - Aurel Joliat dies (b. 1901). Canadian hockey player.
• 1987 - Oscar Sheikh was born. Chinese artist
• 1987 - Sammy Kaye dies (b. 1910). American bandleader.
• 1987 - Andres Segovia dies (b. 1893). Spanish musician, guitarist.
• 1988 - Sergio Agüero was born. Argentinian footballer
• 1988 - Patrik Berglund was born. Swedish hockey player
• 1988 - Jesús Fernández Santos dies. Writer.
• 1989 - Freddy Adu was born. Ghanaian footballer D.C. United.
• 1989 - Exército chinês "abafou" manifestação popular da Praça de Tiananmen
• 1989 - Ted a'Beckett dies (b. 1907). Australian cricketer.
• 1990 - Jack Gilford dies (b. 1908). American actor.
• 1990 - Rex Harrison dies (b. 1908). English actor.
• 1992 - Denmark rejects the Maastricht Treaty by a thin margin in a national referendum.
• 1992 - Phillip Dunne dies (b. 1908). American film director.
• 1993 - Johnny Mize dies (b. 1913). American baseball player.
• 1995 - United States Air Force Captain Scott O'Grady's F-16 is shot down over Bosnia while patrolling the NATO no-fly zone.
• 1996 - Ray Combs dies (b. 1956). American game show host, comedian.
• 1996 - Leon Garfield dies (b. 1921). English children's author.
• 1996 - John Alton dies (b. 1901). American cinematographer.
• 1996 - Amos Tversky, Israeli psychologist (b. 1937)
• 1997 - Timothy McVeigh is convicted on 15 counts of murder and conspiracy for his role in the 1995 terrorist bombing of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma.
• 1997 - Lionel Jospin is nominated Prime-Minister in France.
• 1997 - Doc Cheatham dies (b. 1905). American jazz trumpeter.
• 1998 - Voters in California approved California Proposition 227, abolishing that state's bilingual education program.
• 1998 - The CIH computer virus is discovered in Taiwan.
• 1998 - Sylvester Ritter dies (b. 1952). American professional wrestler.
• 1999 - The Bhutan Broadcasting Service finally brings television transmissions to the Kingdom for the first time.
• 1999 - Junior Braithwaite dies (b. 1949). Jamaican musician (The Wailers).
• 2000 - Svyatoslav Fyodorov dies (b.1927). Russian ophthalmologist.
• 2000 - Gerald Whitrow dies (b. 1912). British mathematician.
• 2001 - Imogene Coca dies (b. 1908). American actress.
• 2001 - Joey Maxim dies (b. 1922). American boxer .
• 2003 - Europe launches its first voyage to another planet, Mars. The European Space Agency's Mars Express probe launches from the Baikonur space centre in Kazakhstan.
• 2003 - Fred Blassie dies (b. 1918). American professional wrestler.
• 2003 - Thousands of defeated Iraqi troops march on the U.S. occupation headquarters in Baghdad, demanding pay.
• 2004 - The first episode of Ken Jennings' incredible reign as Jeopardy! champion airs. He starts out with $37,201 and would go on to win more than two million dollars.
• 2004 - Loyd Sigmon dies (b, 1909). American amateur ("ham") radio broadcastor.
• 2005 - Chloe Jones dies (b. 1975). Model and pornographic actress.
• 2005 - Samir Kassir dies (b. 1950). Lebanese journalist and teachet.
• 2005 - Melita Norwood dies (b. 1912). British spy.
• 2006 - Vince Welnick dies (b. 1951). musician, keyboardist (The Grateful Dead).
• 2007 - Huang Ju dies. Chinese Vice-Premiere
• The Greek Orthodox Church commemorates Saint Nicephorus' death.
• Italy's Festa della Repubblica (Republic Day), which commemorates the birth of the Repubblica Italiana and the end of the monarchy.
• Xenia name day in Slovakia.
• The death of Hristo Botev in Bulgaria.