About June 2
June 2, 2023 is the 153rd day of the year 2023 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 212 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Friday.
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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 253 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.
- 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.
- 1763 –Pontiac’s Rebellion: At what is now Mackinaw City, Michigan, Chippewas capture Fort Michilimackinac by diverting the garrison’s attention with a game of lacrosse, then chasing a ball into the fort.
- 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
- 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.
- 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.
- 1955 –The USSR and Yugoslavia sign the Belgrade declaration and thus normalize relations between both countries, discontinued since 1948.
- 1962 –During the 1962 FIFA World Cup, police had to intervene multiple times in fights between Chilean and Italian players in one of the most violent games in football history.
- 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.
- 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.
- 1997 –In Denver, Colorado, Timothy McVeigh is convicted on 15 counts of murder and conspiracy for his role in the 1995 bombing of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma.
- 1999 –The Bhutan Broadcasting Service brings television transmissions to the Kingdom for the first time.
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