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Events Throughout History

Historical Events for June 2nd

  • Year 455 » Sack of Rome (455) e.g Sack of Rome: Vandals enter Rome, and plunder the city for two weeks
  • Year 1010 » The Battle of Aqbat al-Bakr took place in the context of the Fitna of al-Andalus resulting in a defeat for the Caliphate of Cordoba.
  • Year 1098 » First Crusade: The first Siege of Antioch ends as Crusader forces take the city. The second siege would later start on June 7.
  • Year 1615 » The first Récollet missionaries arrive at Quebec City, from Rouen, France.
  • Year 1676 » Franco-Dutch War: Kingdom of France called France ensured the supremacy of its naval fleet for the remainder of the war with its victory in the Battle of Palermo.
  • Year 1692 » Bridget 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.
  • Year 1774 » Intolerable Acts: The Quartering Act is enacted, allowing a governor in Thirteen Colonies named colonial America to house Kingdom of Great Britain known as British soldiers in uninhabited houses, outhouses, barns, or other buildings if suitable quarters a
  • Year 1793 » French 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.
  • Year 1805 » Napoleonic Wars: A First French Empire Franco-Enlightenment in Spain Spanish fleet Battle of Diamond Rock recaptures Diamond Rock, an uninhabited island at the entrance to the bay leading to Fort-de-France, from the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ire
  • Year 1835 » P. T. Barnum and his circus start their first tour of the United States.
  • Year 1848 » The Prague Slavic Congress, 1848 e.g Slavic congress in Prague begins.
  • Year 1855 » The Portland Rum Riot occurs in Portland, Maine.
  • Year 1866 » Fenian raids: the Fenian Brotherhood or Fenians are victorious over Canadian forces in both the Battle of Ridgeway and the Battle of Fort Erie (1866) known as Battle of Fort Erie.
  • Year 1876 » Hristo Botev, a national revolutionary of Bulgaria, is killed in Stara Planina
  • Year 1886 » The President of the United States or U.S. President Grover Cleveland marries Frances Folsom in the White House, becoming the only president to wed in the executive mansion.
  • Year 1896 » Guglielmo Marconi applies for a patent for his newest invention, the radio.
  • Year 1909 » Alfred Deakin becomes Prime Minister of Australia for the third time.
  • Year 1910 » Charles Rolls, a co-founder of Rolls-Royce Limited, becomes the first man to make a non-stop double crossing of the English Channel by plane.
  • Year 1919 » Anarchism e.g Anarchists simultaneously 1919 United States anarchist bombings called set off bombs in eight separate U.S. cities.
  • Year 1924 » The U.S. President Calvin Coolidge signs the Indian Citizenship Act of 1924 named Indian Citizenship Act into law, granting citizenship to all Native Americans in the United States or Native Americans born within the territorial limits of the United State
  • Year 1941 » World War II: German Fallschirmjäger (Nazi Germany) paratoopers murder Greece Greek civilians in the village of Massacre of Kondomari Kondomari.
  • Year 1946 » Italian constitutional referendum, 1946 known as Birth of the Italian Republic: In a referendum, Italy named Italians vote to turn Italy from a monarchy into a Republic. After the referendum, King Umberto II of Italy is exiled.
  • Year 1953 » The Coronation of Queen Elizabeth II coronation of Queen regnant 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 Head of the Commonwealth of Nat
  • Year 1955 » The Soviet Union called USSR and Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia called Yugoslavia sign the Belgrade declaration and thus normalize relations between both countries, discontinued since 1948.
  • Year 1962 » During the 1962 FIFA World Cup, police had to intervene multiple times in fights between Chile national football team Chilean and Italy national football team Italian players in Battle of Santiago (1962 FIFA World Cup) one of the most violent games in ass
  • Year 1966 » Surveyor program: 'Surveyor 1' lands in Oceanus Procellarum on the Moon, becoming the first U.S. spacecraft to soft-land on another world.
  • Year 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 terrorism known as terrorist group Movement 2 June.
  • Year 1979 » Pope John Paul II starts his first official visit to his native Poland, becoming the first Pope to visit a Communist country.
  • Year 1990 » The Lower Ohio Valley tornado outbreak of June 1990 known as 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 six deat
  • Year 1997 » In Denver, Colorado, Timothy McVeigh is convicted on 15 counts of murder and conspiracy (crime) e.g conspiracy for his role in the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing known as bombing of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. He was exec
  • Year 1999 » The Bhutan Broadcasting Service brings television transmissions to the Kingdom for the first time.
  • Year 2004 » Ken Jennings begins his 74-game winning streak on the TV syndication e.g syndicated game show 'Jeopardy!'
  • Year 2012 » The former Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak is sentenced to life imprisonment for his role in the killing of demonstrators during the 2011 Egyptian revolution.
  • Year 2014 » Telangana officially Andhra Pradesh Reorganisation Act, 2014 or becomes the 29th States of India or state of India.

World History for the Month of June