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Birthday June 02, 1740 Marquis de Sade, 1st known sadist |
Birthday June 02, 1815 Philip Kearny is born |
Birthday June 02, 1835 St. Pius X, 257th Roman Catholic pope (1903-14) |
Birthday June 02, 1840 Thomas Hardy, English poet and novelist (Mayor of Casterbridge) |
Birthday June 02, 1857 Karl Gjellerup, Danish poet, novelist (Nobel 1917) |
Birthday June 02, 1857 Sir Edward Elgar, composer (Pomp & Circumstance) |
Birthday June 02, 1890 Hedda Hopper |
Birthday June 02, 1904 Johnny Weissmuller, swimmer-Actor (Tarzan) |
Birthday June 02, 1927 Brock Peters, Actor, singer |
Birthday June 02, 1927 Phillip Burton |
Birthday June 02, 1929 Chuck Barris, TV producer |
Birthday June 02, 1930 Charles Conrad, Jr., astronaut (Gemini 5, 11, Apollo 12, Skylab 2) |
Birthday June 02, 1937 Sally Kellerman, in California |
Birthday June 02, 1940 King Constantine, of Greece |
Birthday June 02, 1941 Charlie Watts, Rolling Stones drummer |
Birthday June 02, 1941 Stacy Keach, Actor |
Birthday June 02, 1943 Charles Haid, Actor (Hill Street Blues) |
Birthday June 02, 1944 Marvin Hamlisch |
Birthday June 02, 1944 Garo Yepremian, NFL place kicker (Miami Dolphins) |
Birthday June 02, 1948 Jerry Mathers, the "Beaver" |
History June 02, 0455 Gaiseric and the Vandals sack Rome |
History June 02, 1774 Parliament completes the Coercive Acts with the Quartering Act |
History June 02, 1823 Ashley's fur trappers attacked by Indians |
History June 02, 1851 1st Prohibition law enacted in Maine |
History June 02, 1858 Donati Comet 1st seen named after it's discoverer |
History June 02, 1865 American Civil War ends |
History June 02, 1866 Renegade Irish Fenians surrender to US forces |
History June 02, 1873 ground broken on Clay Street for world's 1st cable railroad |
History June 02, 1873 Ground broken on Clay Street for world's 1st cable railroad |
History June 02, 1883 1st night baseball under lights Ft Wayne IN |
History June 02, 1886 Grover Cleveland gets married in the White House |
History June 02, 1886 President Cleveland marries in White House |
History June 02, 1886 1st to wed during presidency-Grover Cleveland |
History June 02, 1902 1st statewide initiative and referendum law adopted - in Oregon |
History June 02, 1910 Pygmies discovered in Dutch New Guinea |
History June 02, 1915 Austro-German forces attack Russians at Przemysl |
History June 02, 1921 Flash floods ravage Colorado |
History June 02, 1924 The Indian Citizenship Act |
History June 02, 1924 US citizenship granted to all American Indians |
History June 02, 1924 Coolidge signs Indian Citizen Act |
History June 02, 1936 Gen. Anastasio Somoza takes over as dictator of Nicaragua |
History June 02, 1941 Yankee great Lou Gehrig dies at 37 |
History June 02, 1944 United States begins shuttle bombing in Operation Frantic |
History June 02, 1946 Italian plebiscite chooses republic over monarchy (National Day) |
History June 02, 1953 Coronation of Queen Elizabeth II in Westminster Abbey |
History June 02, 1953 Coronation of Queen Elizabeth II |
History June 02, 1954 McCarthy charges communists are in the CIA |
History June 02, 1962 Ray Charles takes country music to the top of the pop charts |
History June 02, 1965 First contingent of Australian combat troops arrives |
History June 02, 1966 US Surveyor 1 lands in Oceanus Procellarum 1st moon soft-landing |
History June 02, 1967 Sgt Pepper album released in US |
History June 02, 1967 Green Beret doctor convicted in court-martial |
History June 02, 1970 Race car driver and designer Bruce McLaren dies in crash |
History June 02, 1977 Raymond Carver quits drinking |
History June 02, 1977 NJ allows casino gambling in Atlantic City |
History June 02, 1979 John Paul II 1st pope to visit a communist country Poland |
History June 02, 1983 Toilet catches fire in Douglas DC-9 23 die at Cincinnati |
History June 02, 1984 Actress Jill Ireland had a radical masectomy |
History June 02, 1985 Serial killing spree is put to an end |
History June 02, 1985 English football clubs banned from Europe |
History June 02, 1989 Dead Poets Society released in selected theaters |
History June 02, 1997 McVeigh convicted for Oklahoma City bombing |
History June 02, 2012 Longtime Egyptian leader Hosni Mubarak sentenced to life in prison |