Today in History

    What happened on the 2nd of June in history?

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    • 0455
      Gaiseric and the Vandals sack Rome
    • 1851
      1st Prohibition law enacted in Maine
    • 1858
      Donati Comet 1st seen named after it's discoverer
    • 1866
      Renegade Irish Fenians surrender to US forces
    • 1873
      ground broken on Clay Street for world's 1st cable railroad
    • 1873
      Ground broken on Clay Street for world's 1st cable railroad
    • 1883
      1st night baseball under lights Ft Wayne IN
    • 1886
      1st to wed during presidency-Grover Cleveland
    • 1902
      1st statewide initiative and referendum law adopted - in Oregon
    • 1910
      Pygmies discovered in Dutch New Guinea
    • 1924
      US citizenship granted to all American Indians
    • 1936
      Gen. Anastasio Somoza takes over as dictator of Nicaragua
    • 1941
      Yankee great Lou Gehrig dies at 37
    • 1946
      Italian plebiscite chooses republic over monarchy (National Day)
    • 1953
      Coronation of Queen Elizabeth II in Westminster Abbey
    • 1966
      US Surveyor 1 lands in Oceanus Procellarum 1st moon soft-landing
    • 1967
      Sgt Pepper album released in US
    • 1977
      NJ allows casino gambling in Atlantic City
    • 1979
      John Paul II 1st pope to visit a communist country Poland
    • 1983
      Toilet catches fire in Douglas DC-9 23 die at Cincinnati
    • 1984
      Actress Jill Ireland had a radical masectomy