Today in History
What happened on the 2nd of June in history?
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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