About June 2
June 2, 2024 is the 154th day of the year 2024 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 212 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Sunday.
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Gemini is the sun sign of a person born on this day. Pearl is the modern birthstone for this month. Moonstone is the mystical birthstone from Tibetan origin that dates back over a thousand years.
According to the lunisolar Chinese calendar, there are 241 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.
What Happened On June 2
- 455 –Sack of Rome: Vandals enter Rome, and plunder the city for two weeks
- 1098 –First Crusade: The first Siege of Antioch ends as Crusader forces take the city. The second siege would later start on June 7.
- 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.
- 1774 –Intolerable Acts: The Quartering Act is enacted, allowing a governor in colonial America to house British soldiers in uninhabited houses, outhouses, barns, or other buildings if suitable quarters are not provided.
- 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.
- 1835 –P. T. Barnum and his circus start their first tour of the United States.
- 1848 –The Slavic congress in Prague begins.
- 1876 –Hristo Botev, a national revolutionary of Bulgaria, is killed in Stara Planina
- 1886 –U.S. President Grover Cleveland marries Frances Folsom in the White House, becoming the only president to wed in the executive mansion.
- 1896 –Guglielmo Marconi applies for a patent for his newest invention: the radio.
- 1910 –Charles Rolls, co-founder of Rolls-Royce Limited, becomes the first man to make a non-stop double crossing of the English Channel by plane.
- 1919 –Anarchists simultaneously set off bombs in eight separate U.S. cities.
- 1924 –U.S. President Calvin Coolidge signs the Indian Citizenship Act into law, granting citizenship to all Native Americans born within the territorial limits of the United States.
- 1941 –World War II: German paratoopers murder Greek civilians in the village of Kondomari.
- 1955 –The USSR and Yugoslavia sign the Belgrade declaration and thus normalize relations between both countries, discontinued since 1948.
- 1979 –Pope John Paul II first official visit to his native Poland, becoming the first Pope to visit a Communist country.
- 1983 –After an emergency landing because of an in-flight fire, twenty-three passengers aboard Air Canada Flight 797 are killed when a flashover occurs as the plane’s doors open. Because of this incident, numerous new safety regulations are put in place.
- 1990 –The 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 6 deaths.
- 1995 –United States Air Force Captain Scott O'Grady’s F-16 is shot down over Bosnia while patrolling the NATO no-fly zone.
- 1999 –The Bhutan Broadcasting Service brings television transmissions to the Kingdom for the first time.
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