WikiRug:Selected anniversaries/June 2
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Surveyor 1
Grover Cleveland and Frances Folsom's wedding
Charles Rolls
The Capture of Diamond Rock
Luigi Galleani
Scott O'Grady
Ineligible
| Blurb | Reason |
|---|---|
| Republic Day in Italy | refimprove |
| 1098 – First Crusade: The first Siege of Antioch ended as Crusader forces captured the city, but the Seljuk Turks would later start a second siege of Antioch a few days later. | refimprove |
| 1615 – The first Recollect missionaries arrived in Quebec City in New France (now in Quebec, Canada) from Rouen. | refimprove |
| 1763 – Pontiac's War: The local Ojibwe captured Fort Michilimackinac in what is now Mackinaw City, Michigan, after diverting the garrison's attention with a game of stickball, then chasing a ball into the fort. | needs more footnotes |
| 1774 – Intolerable Acts: To restore imperial control over the Thirteen Colonies, the Parliament of Great Britain passed a second Quartering Act, reenacting a law requiring colonists to provide housing for British soldiers. | unreferenced section and this one barely merits a mention in the article |
| 1848 – As part of the Pan-Slavism movement, the Prague Slavic Congress began in Prague, the first of several times that voices from all Slav populations of Europe were heard in one place. | unreferenced section |
| 1866 – Fenian raids: The Battle of Ridgeway, the first to be fought only by Canadian troops and led exclusively by Canadian officers, took place in Ontario. | refimprove section |
| 1910 – Charles Rolls, co-founder of Rolls-Royce, became the first man to make a non-stop double crossing of the English Channel by plane. | refimprove |
| 1946 – Italians voted to abolish the monarchy and establish the Italian Republic, exiling King Umberto II. | refimprove |
| 1966 – Surveyor 1 landed on the Moon. | needs more footnotes |
| 1999 – Bhutan ended its status as the only country in the world to prohibit television when the state-run Bhutan Broadcasting Service came on the air. | refimprove |
| 2003 – The Mars Express space probe, the first planetary mission of the European Space Agency, was launched. | refimprove section |
| Thomas Hardy (b. 1840) | refimprove section |
Eligible
- 1886 – Grover Cleveland became the only U.S. President to marry in the White House when he wed Frances Folsom.
- 1924 – U.S. President Calvin Coolidge signed the Indian Citizenship Act into law, granting citizenship to all Native Americans born within the territorial limits of the United States.
- 1953 – Elizabeth II was crowned Queen of the United Kingdom at Westminster Abbey.
- 1962 – One of the most violent football matches ever took place at the World Cup when police had to intervene multiple times as Chile defeated Italy in a group match.
- 1983 – After an emergency landing because of an in-flight fire, twenty-three passengers aboard Air Canada Flight 797 were killed when a flashover occurred as the plane's doors opened.
- 1995 – U.S. Air Force Captain Scott O'Grady was shot down while patrolling the NATO no-fly zone over Bosnia, but he was able to eject safely and was then rescued six days later.
- 2010 – A gunman went on a shooting spree in Cumbria, England, killing 12 people and injuring 11 others before committing suicide.
- Born/died: Rutger von Ascheberg (b. 1621) · Ogata Kōrin (d. 1716) · Gilbert Baker (b. 1951){·}} George S. Kaufman (d. 1961) · Abby Wambach (b. 1980)
June 2: Jerusalem Day in Israel (2019)
- 455 – After having removed Petronius Maximus from the throne, Vandals led by Genseric entered Rome and sacked it for two weeks.
- 1805 – Napoleonic Wars: A Franco-Spanish fleet recaptured British-held Diamond Rock (pictured), an uninhabited island at the entrance to the bay leading to Fort-de-France.
- 1919 – First Red Scare: Anarchist followers of Luigi Galleani set off eight bombs in eight cities across the United States.
- 1967 – German university student Benno Ohnesorg was killed during a protest in West Berlin against the visit of Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi of Iran, sparking the formation of the militant group 2 June Movement.
- 1994 – The Royal Air Force suffered its worst peacetime disaster when a Chinook helicopter crashed on the Mull of Kintyre, Scotland, killing all 29 people on board.
Al-Muwaffaq (d. 891) · William Salmon (b. 1644) · Adelaide Casely-Hayford (b. 1865)