June 2

Events

 * - The enter, and plunder the city for two weeks.
 * - becomes.
 * - becomes.
 * - : The first ends as  forces take the city. The second siege would later start on.
 * - First  arrive at, from ,.
 * - : At what is now, s capture by diverting the garrison's attention with a game of , then chasing a ball into the fort.
 * - : The, requiring to let  soldiers into their homes, is reenacted.
 * - The horse race is held for the first time.
 * - recites the names of 29 people to the  . Almost all of these are d, followed by 17,000 more over the course of the next year during the.
 * - First  in, at ,.
 * - and his circus begins their first tour of the.
 * - in  begins.
 * - The occurs in.
 * -  marries  in the, becoming the only  to wed in the executive mansion.
 * - receives a  for his newest : the.
 * - becomes  for the third time.
 * -  signs  into law, granting  to all  born within the territorial limits of the.
 * - : In a  decide to turn  from a  into a . After this referendum the king of   is exiled.
 * - Coronation of, the first to be televised.
 * - and  sign the  and thus normalize relations between both countries, discontinued since.
 * - : The first contingent of n combat troops arrives in.
 * - :  lands in Oceanus Procellarum on the, becoming the first  to soft land on another world.
 * 1967 - Protests in against the arrival of the  of  turn into riots, during which  is killed by a police officer. His death results in the founding of the  group.
 * - s occupied a  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.
 * - visits his native, becoming the first  to visit a  country.
 * - spawns 88 confirmed tornados in Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, and Ohio, killing 9.  was the hardest-hit town in the outbreak, with 6 deaths.
 * - rejects the  by a thin margin in a national referendum.
 * -  's  is shot down over  while patrolling the  no-fly zone.
 * - In, is convicted on 15 counts of  and  for his role in the  terrorist bombing of the  in.
 * - The is discovered in.
 * - The brings television transmissions to the Kingdom for the first time.
 * - launches its first voyage to another planet, . The 's  probe launches from the  space centre in.
 * - begins his 74-game winning streak on the   .

Births

 * -, (d. )
 * - (d. )
 * -, First American first lady (d. )
 * -, French author (d. )
 * -, Sicilian Occultist (d. )
 * -, U.S. Senator from Virginia (d. )
 * -, explorer of , (d. )
 * -, French Canadian politician (d. )
 * - (d. )
 * -, English writer (d. )
 * -, English composer (d. )
 * 1857  -, Danish writer,  laureate (d. )
 * -, Yugoslavian conductor (d. )
 * -, English cricketer (d. )
 * -, baseball player (d. )
 * -, American songwriter (d. )
 * -, American attorney and jurist (d. )
 * -, German film director (d. )
 * -, English artist (d. )
 * 1904  -, American swimmer and actor (d. )
 * -, American writer (d. )
 * -, English novelist (d. )
 * -, American voice actor (d. )
 * -, German photographer and filmmaker
 * -, American painter (d. )
 * -, Polish-born critic
 * 1920  -, American football team president and general manager (d. )
 * 1920  -, Governor of Tennessee (d. )
 * -, American golfer
 * 1922  -, Spanish director and screenwriter (d. )
 * -, Canadian jounalist, author & social activist (d. )
 * -, Irish actor
 * -, American author and architect
 * -, American astronaut (d. )
 * 1930  -, baseball player
 * -, baseball player (d. )
 * -, American-born novelist (d. )
 * 1935  -, English actor (d. )
 * 1935  -, Greek turkologist, professor of International Relations and Geopolitics at the
 * -, American actress
 * -, American singer and songwriter
 * -, English filmmaker, film historian, and author
 * - King
 * -, American actor
 * 1941  -, English musician
 * 1941  -, American singer
 * -, American actor
 * 1943  -, Indian composer
 * -, American composer and musician
 * -, American film producer and hairdresser
 * -, English murderer
 * 1946  -, Swedish film director
 * -, British opera and symphony conductor
 * -, American actor
 * -, British astronomer
 * 1949  -, American theater critic and political columnist
 * -, Canadian hockey player
 * -, American National Hockey League commissioner
 * -, Welsh comedian, actor, singer and writer
 * 1953  -, American golfer
 * -, American actor
 * -, American Actor
 * 1955  -, American musician
 * 1955  -, Swiss-born socialite
 * -, Indian director
 * -, English graphic designer
 * -, American entertainer
 * -, American professional wrestler
 * -, American singer
 * -, American race car driver
 * 1960  -, English singer
 * -, American musician
 * -, German film director and screenwriter
 * -, American autobiographer and journalist
 * 1965  -  and, Australian cricketers
 * -, Spanish songwriter and singer
 * -, baseball player
 * -, member of 's
 * 1968  -, British comedian
 * -, American rapper
 * -, American actor
 * 1971  -, Czech politician
 * -, American actor and comedian
 * 1972  -, American actor
 * -, Dominican baseball player
 * -, American professional wrestler
 * 1974  -, American chess player
 * -, American basketball player
 * 1976  -, English musician
 * 1976  -, International ice hockey player (d. )
 * 1976 -, Queen consort of
 * 1977  -, American actor
 * -, American actress
 * 1978  -, American actor
 * 1978  -, English actor
 * 1978  -, American professional wrestler
 * -, American rock drummer
 * -, Russian professional tennis player
 * -, Canadian actress
 * -, Argentinian footballer
 * 1988  -, Swedish hockey player
 * -, Ghanaian-American footballer
 * -, Australian poker player

Deaths

 * -, Patriarch of Constantinople (b. )
 * -, Queen of Western Francia
 * -, wife of
 * -, Irish chieftain
 * -, regent of Scotland
 * -, English soldier and politician
 * -, French writer (b. )
 * -, Japanese painter
 * -, Scottish religious dissenter (b. )
 * -, Swedish industrialist (b. )
 * -, French mathematician (b. )
 * -,   (b. )
 * -, American politician (b. )
 * -, Polish messianistic philosopher (b. )
 * -, Bulgarian revolutionary (b. )
 * -, French lexicographer (b. )
 * -, Italian revolutionarist (b. )
 * -, Canadian missionary (b. )
 * -, American athlete (b. )
 * -, French organist and composer (b. )
 * -, American baseball player (b. )
 * -, Nazi physician (b. )
 * 1948  -, personal physician of  (b. )
 * 1948  -, Nazi doctor (b. )
 * 1948  -, German physician (b. )
 * 1948  -, Nazi physician (b. )
 * -, Danish actor and humanitarian (b. )
 * -, American playwright (b. )
 * -, English writer, and gardener (b. )
 * -, German student (b. )
 * -, Quebec pianist and composer (b. )
 * -, American actor (b. )
 * -, New Zealand car racer, designer, and manufacturer (b. )
 * 1970  -, Italian poet (b. )
 * 1970  -, French film director and screenwriter (b. )
 * -, Japanese racing driver (b. )
 * -, former , assassinated in the frame of
 * -, Northern Irish actor (b. )
 * -, American actor (b. )
 * -, Pakistani politician (b. )
 * -, Canadian musician (b. )
 * -, Greek musician (b. )
 * -, Canadian hockey player (b. )
 * -, American bandleader (b. )
 * 1987  -, Spanish guitarist (b. )
 * -, Australian cricketer (b. )
 * -, American singer (b. )
 * 1990  -, American actor (b. )
 * 1990  -, English actor (b. )
 * -, American film director (b. )
 * -, American baseball player (b. )
 * -, American cinematographer (b. )
 * 1996  -, American game show host and comedian (b. )
 * 1996  -, English children's author (b. )
 * 1996  -, Israeli psychologist (b. )
 * -, American jazz trumpeter (b. )
 * -, American professional wrestler (b. )
 * -, Jamaican musician (b. )
 * -, Russian ophthalmologist (b. )
 * 2000  -, British mathematician (b. )
 * -, American actress (b. )
 * 2001  -, American boxer (b. )
 * -, American professional wrestler (b. )
 * -, American  broadcastor (b. )
 * -, Model and pornographic actress (b. )
 * 2005  -, Lebanese journalist and teacher (b. )
 * 2005  -, British spy (b. )
 * -, musician, keyboardist (b. )
 * -, Chinese Vice-Premier
 * 2007  -, Japanese composer (b. )

Holidays and observances

 * 's , which commemorates the of the  and the end of the.
 * name day in.
 * The death of in.
 * The death of in.

Liturgical feasts
The following Catholic saints:
 * The commemorates ' death - see also.
 * (died 657)
 * (died 657)