About June 2
June 2, 2025 is the 153rd day of the year 2025 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 212 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Monday.
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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 260 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.
What Happened On June 2
- 1098 –First Crusade: The first Siege of Antioch ends as Crusader forces take the city. The second siege would later start on June 7.
- 1615 –First Récollet missionaries arrive at Quebec City, from Rouen, France.
- 1676 –Franco-Dutch War: France ensured the supremacy of its naval fleet for the remainder of the war with its victory in the Battle of Palermo.
- 1835 –P. T. Barnum and his circus start their first tour of the United States.
- 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.
- 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.
- 1946 –Birth of the Italian Republic: In a referendum, Italians vote to turn Italy from a monarchy into a Republic. After the referendum the king of Italy Umberto II di Savoia is exiled.
- 1966 –Surveyor program: Surveyor 1 lands in Oceanus Procellarum on the Moon, becoming the first U.S. spacecraft to soft land on another world.
- 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 terrorist group Movement 2 June.
- 1979 –Pope John Paul II first official visit to his native Poland, becoming the first Pope to visit a Communist country.
- 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.
- 2003 –Europe launches its first voyage to another planet, Mars. The European Space Agency’s Mars Express probe launches from the Baikonur space center in Kazakhstan.
- 2004 –Ken Jennings begins his 74-game winning streak on the syndicated game show Jeopardy!
- 2010 –Derrick Bird goes on a killing spree in Cumbria, killing 13 and injuring 11, see Cumbria shootings.
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