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| 100 years anniversary | ||||
| 02 Jun 1924 | Snyder Act: US citizenship granted to all American Indians | |||
| 02 Jun 1924 | June Callwood, Canadian journalist, author, and activist (d. 2007) | |||
| 02 Jun 1924 | Al Ruscio, American actor (d. 2013) | |||
| 02 Jun 1924 | The 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. | |||
| 02 Jun 1924 | birth Maurice Kinn, launched The New Musical Express in 1953, instigated the first charts based on record sales. Kinn died on August 3rd 2000. | |||
| 02 Jun 1924 |
birth Eric Voice Born 2 Jun 1924; died 11 Sep 2004 at age 80. English nuclear scientist who volunteered to ingest a minute amount of plutonium as part of European research to track plutonium in the body's metabolism. He was one of 12 volunteers aged 26 to 67 who were injected with plutonium between 1992-98. Reuters reported on 8 Aug 1999 that Voice, age 73, had volunteered again to inhale plutonium for further study 18 months earlier. The miniscule dose was a soluble compound of Pu-237, which he regarded as having little risk, and he remained in good health. Sensitive detectors measured how much and where plutonium was retained, in which organs, and how quickly expelled. He was one of the first western scientists to visit Chernobyl after the explosion (1986). He died of unrelated natural causes. |
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| 75 years anniversary | ||||
| 02 Jun 1949 | Dynam-Victor Fumet: Composer, dies at 82 | |||
| 02 Jun 1949 | Ernest Ford: Composer, dies at 91 | |||
| 02 Jun 1949 | Transjordan renamed Jordan | |||
| 02 Jun 1949 | Heather Couper, English astronomer and physicist | |||
| 02 Jun 1949 | Jack Pierce, American baseball player and coach (d. 2012) | |||
| 02 Jun 1949 | Frank Rich, American journalist and critic | |||
| 50 years anniversary | ||||
| 02 Jun 1974 | Tammy Holmes: Berkeley, California -- Female outfielder (Colo Silver Bullets) | |||
| 02 Jun 1974 | Elliott Sullivan: Actor (Sergeant), dies at 66 | |||
| 02 Jun 1974 | Judy Rankin wins LPGA Baltimore Golf Classic | |||
| 02 Jun 1974 | Mali adopts constitution | |||
| 02 Jun 1974 | Gata Kamsky, Russian-American chess player | |||
| 02 Jun 1974 | Raiko Pachel, Estonian swimmer | |||
| 02 Jun 1974 | Matt Serra, American mixed martial artist | |||
| 02 Jun 1974 | Hiroshi Kazato, Japanese race car driver (b. 1949) | |||
| 25 years anniversary | ||||
| 02 Jun 1999 | Junior Braithwaite, Jamaican singer (Bob Marley and the Wailers) (b. 1949) | |||
| 02 Jun 1999 | The Bhutan Broadcasting Service brings television transmissions to the Kingdom for the first time. | |||
| 02 Jun 1999 | Junior Braithwaite from Bob Marley and the Wailers was shot dead aged 46. Braithwaite was one of the founders of, and the first lead singer of The Wailers. | |||
| 20 years anniversary | ||||
| 02 Jun 2004 | Loyd Sigmon, American radio host (b. 1909) | |||
| 02 Jun 2004 | Ken Jennings begins his 74-game winning streak on the syndicated game show Jeopardy! | |||
| 02 Jun 2004 |
British sturgeon In 2004, a 2.75-meter sturgeon weighing 120 kg was caught in Swansea Bay off the coast of Wales by Robert Davies. Sturgeons are extremely rare in British waters, so this catch was interesting, but by a statute dating back to King Edward II the 14th century the fish had to be offered to the Crown if caught in Britain. When Buckingham Palace told him he could "dispose of it as he saw fit," he it auctioned at Plymouth fish market for £700, but the local police confiscated it as a protected species under British law. Eventually, the fish was donated as a specimen for the collection at the Natural History Museum in London. (In other parts of the world where sturgeon are caught, their eggs are sold as an extravagant food - caviar.) |
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| 15 years anniversary | ||||
| 02 Jun 2009 | David Eddings, American author (b. 1931) | |||
| 10 years anniversary | ||||
| 02 Jun 2014 | Ivica Brzić, Serbian footballer and manager (b. 1941) | |||
| 02 Jun 2014 | Anjan Das, Indian director and producer (b. 1951) | |||
| 02 Jun 2014 | Gennadi Gusarov, Russian footballer and manager (b. 1937) | |||
| 02 Jun 2014 | Nikolay Khrenkov, Russian bobsledder (b. 1984) | |||
| 02 Jun 2014 | Duraisamy Simon Lourdusamy, Indian cardinal (b. 1924) | |||
| 02 Jun 2014 | Kuaima Riruako, Namibian politician (b. 1935) | |||
| 02 Jun 2014 | Alexander Shulgin, American pharmacologist and chemist (b. 1925) | |||
| 02 Jun 2014 | Telangana officially becomes the 29th state of India. | |||
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