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575Jun 2Benedict I began his reign as Catholic Pope.
657Jun 2St. Eugene I ended his reign as Catholic Pope.
1537Jun 2Pope Paul III banned the enslavement of Indians in the New World.
1731Jun 2Martha Dandridge, the first First Lady of the United States, was born. Widow of Daniel Park Custis, she married George Washington in 1759.
1797Jun 21st ascent of “Great Mountain” (4,622′) in Adirondack, NY, was by C. Broadhead.
1818Jun 2The British army defeated the Maratha alliance in Bombay, India.
1821Jun 2Ion Bratianu (Lib), premier of Romania (1876-88), was born.
1834Jun 2The 5th national black convention met in NYC.
1835Jun 2P.T. Barnum and his circus began 1st tour of US.
1857Jun 2James Gibbs of Virginia patented a chain-stitch single-thread sewing machine.
1858Jun 2Donati Comet was 1st seen and named after its discoverer.
1859Jun 2French forces crossed the Ticino River, the last natural barrier between themselves and Milan with the Austrians in retreat.
1863Jun 2Felix Weingartner, conductor (Zara, Dalmatia), was born in Germany.
1864Jun 2This was day 2 in the US Civil War Battle of Cold Harbor.
1865Jun 2At Galveston, Confederate General Kirby-Smith surrendered the Trans-Mississippi Department to Northern Forces.
1866Jun 2Renegade Irish Fenians surrendered to US forces.
1875Jun 2James A. Healy, the 1st black Roman Catholic bishop in the US, was consecrated in Portland, Maine.
1882Jun 2Giuseppi Garibaldi (b.1807), Italian rebel leader, died. His autobiography was published in 1889. In 2007 Lucy Riall authored “Garibaldi: Invention of a Hero.”
1883Jun 2The first baseball game under electric lights was played in Fort Wayne, Indiana.
1890Jun 2Hedda Hopper, gossip columnist (From Under My Hat), was born.
1897Jun 2Responding to rumors that he was dying or perhaps even dead, humorist Mark Twain, 61, was quoted by the New York Journal in London as saying that “the report of my death was an exaggeration.”
1898Jun 2Dr. Paul-Louis Simond discovered the connections between rats, fleas and humans in the transmittance of the Plague in Bombay, India.
1899Jun 2Black Americans observed a day of fasting to protest lynchings.
1901Jun 2Michael Todd, producer (Around the World in 80 Days), was born.
1902Jun 22nd statewide initiative and referendum law was adopted in Oregon.
1903Jun 2Robert Morris Page, physicist, inventor of pulse radar, was born.
1904Jun 2Johnny Weissmuller, American gold-winning Olympic swimmer (1924), was born. He portrayed Tarzan in the movies.
1910Jun 2Pygmies were discovered in Dutch New Guinea (Papua).
1913Jun 2The 1st strike settlement mediated by US Dep’t of Labor for the RR clerks.
1914Jun 2Glenn Curtiss flew his Langley Aerodrome.
1917Jun 2Max Showalter, actor, composer (Stockard Channing Show), was born in Caldwell, Ks.
   
1919Jun 2There were coordinated bombings in Washington, DC, and 6 other cities. Militant followers of anarchist Luigi Galleani were blamed. A campaign this month involved 8 bombs that killed several people including an anarchist.
1924Jun 2Congress granted U.S. citizenship to all American Indians. The Snyder Act Granted full citizenship to all Native Americans born in the U.S.
1925Jun 2NY Yankee Lou Gehrig began his 2,130 consecutive game streak.
1926Jun 2Milo O’Shea, actor (Barbarella, Romeo & Juliet), was born.
1927Jun 2Phillip Burton, historian (Vanishing Eagles), was born.
1928Jun 2Nationalist Chiang Kai-shek captured Peking, China, in a bloodless takeover.
1930Jun 2Charles Conrad (d.1999), astronaut, was born in Philadelphia. He walked on the moon during the Apollo XII mission in 1969.
1932Jun 2Sammy Turner, singer (Lavender Blue Moods), was born in Patterson, NJ.
1933Jun 2Bob Rozario, orchestra leader (Tony Orlando, Marie), was born in Shanghai, China.
1934Jun 2Sunny Jim Rolph (b.1869), former mayor of SF (1912-1931) and Governor of California (1931-1934), died. He lived at his home at 288 San Jose Ave. in the Mission throughout his life.
1936Jun 2Sally Kellerman, actress (M*A*S*H, Back to School), was born in Long Beach, Cal.
1940Jun 2Constantine II, the deposed king of Greece (-1967), was born.
1941Jun 2William Guest, singer (Gladys Knight Show), was born in Atlanta, Ga.
1942Jun 2The American aircraft carriers Enterprise, Hornet and Yorktown moved into their battle positions for the Battle of Midway.
1943Jun 299th Pursuit Squadron flew its 1st combat mission over Italy.
1944Jun 2Marvin Hamlisch, US composer, pianist (The Sting, Chorus Line), was born.
1946Jun 2The Italian monarchy was abolished by referendum in favor of a republic.
1948Jun 2Albert Innaurato, playwright, director (Age in Soho), was born in Phila.
1949Jun 2Transjordan was renamed the Hashemite Kingdom Jordan.
1950Jun 2Joanna Gleason, actress (Morgan-Hello Larry), was born in Toronto, Canada.
1952Jun 2The US Supreme Court ruled in favor of steelworkers, who then began a 53-day walkout demanding wage and benefit increases.
1953Jun 2Queen Elizabeth II of Britain was crowned in Westminster Abbey, 16 months after the death of her father, King George VI.
1954Jun 2Senator Joseph McCarthy charged that there are communists working in the CIA and atomic weapons plants.
1955Jun 2Dana Carvey, comedian (Sat Night Live-Church Lady, George Bush), was born.
1959Jun 2Allen Ginsberg wrote his poem “Lysergic Acid,” in SF.
1961Jun 2George S. Kaufman (72), playwright, director, Pulitzer prize winner, died.
1964Jun 2Rolling Stones made their 1st US concert tour debut in Lynn, Mass.
1965Jun 2The 2nd of 2 cyclones in less than a month killed 35,000 along the Ganges River in India.
1966Jun 2The U.S. space probe Surveyor 1 landed on the moon in Oceanus Procellarum and began transmitting detailed photographs of the lunar surface.
1967Jun 2Race riots took place in the Roxbury section of Boston.
1969Jun 2Australian aircraft carrier Melbourne sliced the destroyer USS Frank E. Evans in half during NATO maneuvers off the shore of South Vietnam. 74 US sailors were killed.
1970Jun 2Har Gobind Khorana (1922-1993), Indian-American chemist at the Univ. of Wisconsin, announced the synthesis of the 1st artificial gene.
1972Jun 2Dion & the Belmonts held a reunion concert at Madison Square Garden.
1974Jun 2Jigme Druk Gyalpo Jigme Singye Wangchuck (18) was crowned king of Bhutan.
1975Jun 2Vice President Nelson Rockefeller said his commission had found no widespread pattern of illegal activities at the Central Intelligence Agency.
1976Jun 2Alan Dewitt (b.1921), film and TV actor, died.
1977Jun 2New Jersey Gov. Brendan T. Byrne signed a law allowing casino gambling in Atlantic City.
   
1979Jun 2Pope John Paul II, formerly Cardinal Karol Wojtyla of Warsaw, arrived in his native Poland on the first visit by a pope to a Communist country.
1983Jun 2A toilet caught fire on Air Canada’s DC-9 and 23 died at Cincinnati.
1984Jun 2B.A. Skiff discovered asteroid #3617.
1986Jun 2For the first time, the public could watch the proceedings of the U.S. Senate on television as a six-week experiment of televised sessions began.
1987Jun 2President Reagan announced he was nominating economist Alan Greenspan to succeed Paul Volcker as chairman of the Federal Reserve Board.
1987Jun 2Sammy Kaye (b.1910), orchestra leader (Sammy Kaye Show), died of cancer in New Jersey.
1988Jun 2The publishers of Consumer Reports magazine called for a ban on the Suzuki Samurai, a popular sport utility vehicle that the magazine said tended to roll over in sudden turns; American Suzuki Motor Corporation defended the vehicle as safe.
1989Jun 2President Bush returned from a European trip, calling it “a triumph of hope” for a world moving beyond the Cold War.
1990Jun 2On the third day of their Washington summit, President Bush and Soviet President Mikhail S. Gorbachev held informal talks at the Camp David presidential retreat in Maryland.
1991Jun 2“The Will Rogers Follies” won best musical at Broadway’s Tony Awards; “Lost in Yonkers” was named best play.
1992Jun 2Bill Clinton officially clinched the Democratic presidential nomination as he won the six final primaries of the campaign.
1993Jun 2South Africa’s Supreme Court upheld Winnie Mandela’s conviction for kidnapping four young blacks, but said she would not have to serve her five-year prison term.
1994Jun 2President Clinton met at the Vatican with Pope John Paul II.
1995Jun 2A US Air Force F-16C was shot down by a Bosnian Serb surface-to-air missile while on a NATO air patrol in northern Bosnia; the pilot, Captain Scott F. O’Grady, was rescued six days later.
1997Jun 2Timothy McVeigh was convicted on 11 counts in the Apr 19, 1995 bombing of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City. McVeigh was executed in June 2001.
1998Jun 2Monica Lewinsky hired a new defense team, Jacob Stein and Plato Cacheris, replacing William H. Ginsburg as her lead attorney.
1999Jun 2President Clinton met at the Vatican with Pope John Paul II.
   
2000Jun 2President Clinton, visiting Germany, was honored with the prestigious International Charlemagne Prize at Aachen Cathedral.
2001Jun 2Imogene Coca (b.1908), co-star with Sid Caesar of the 1950s “Your Show of Shows” TV program, died at age 92 in Westport, Conn.
2002Jun 2“Thoroughly Modern Millie” won six Tony Awards, including best musical.
2003Jun 2President Bush, visiting the Middle East, pledged to work unstintingly for the goal of Israel and a Palestinian state living side by side without bloodshed.
2004Jun 2South Dakotans elected Democrat Stephanie Herseth to Rep. Janklow’s seat.
2005Jun 2Pres. Bush tapped California Rep. Chris Cox (52) to chair the SEC following the resignation of William Donaldson.
2006Jun 2The US government and 5 news organizations agreed to pay $1.65 million to Wen Ho Lee, a former nuclear scientist, who claimed his privacy was violated by leaks that portrayed him as a spy.
2007Jun 2Thomas M. Siebel (54), the founder and former chairman of Siebel Systems Inc., announced he will make a $100 million donation to the University of Illinois, his alma mater. This was the largest gift in the university’s history. Siebel pledged to give the gift to the Urbana-Champaign campus upon his death.
2008Jun 2The US gave 31 used trucks to Cambodia in its first direct supply of military hardware in more than a decade, saying ties between the two countries were improving.
2009Jun 2Pres. Obama appeared in a BBC interview and said Iran may have some right to nuclear energy, provided it takes steps to prove its aspirations are peaceful. Obama also restated his plans to pursue direct diplomacy with Tehran.
2010Jun 2President Barack Obama expanded benefits for same-sex partners of federal employees, a move likely to be welcomed by gay rights activists who have questioned his commitment to their causes.
2011Jun 2The Obama administration replaced the food pyramid standard for healthful eating with new icon, a plate half filled with fruits and vegetables, the other half with grains and protein.
2013Jun 2In southern California wind fanned the blaze in Angeles National Forest overnight to some 35 square miles. The fire started May 30 and some 2,800 residents have been evacuated in Lake Hughes and Lake Elizabeth.
Source: Timelines of History  

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