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Events on the 2nd of June in history

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02 Jun 0455 A D Gaiseric and the Vandals sacked Rome
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02 Jun 0455 Sack of Rome: Vandals enter Rome, and plunder the city for two weeks
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02 Jun 0575 Benedict I begins his reign as Catholic Pope
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02 Jun 0657 St. Eugene I ends his reign as Catholic Pope
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02 Jun 1010 The Battle of Aqbat al-Bakr took place in the context of the Fitna of al-Andalus resulting in a defeat for the Caliphate of Córdoba.
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02 Jun 1098 First Crusade: The first Siege of Antioch ends as Crusader forces take the city. The second siege would later start on June 7.
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02 Jun 1615 The first Récollet missionaries arrive at Quebec City, from Rouen, France.
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02 Jun 1619 England and Netherlands signs treaty about business in the Indies
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02 Jun 1625 Prince Frederik Henry sworn in as Viceroy of Holland / Zealand
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02 Jun 1627 English King Charles I establishes Guyana Company
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02 Jun 1633 Prince Frederik Henry conquerors fort Rhine at Cologne
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02 Jun 1676 Battle at Palermo: French beats Dutch / Spanish fleet
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02 Jun 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.
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02 Jun 1692 Bridget Bishop is the first person to go to trial in the Salem witch trials in Salem, Massachusetts. Found guilty, she is hanged on June 10.
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02 Jun 1697 Monarch August van Saksen becomes Catholic
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02 Jun 1746 Russia and Austria sign agreements
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02 Jun 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.
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02 Jun 1774 England passed Quartering Act, mandating Colonists must board English troops in their homes
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02 Jun 1774 Intolerable Acts: The Quartering Act is enacted, allowing a governor in colonial America to house British soldiers in uninhabited houses, outhouses, barns, or other buildings if suitable quarters are not provided.
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02 Jun 1780 Anti Catholic demonstration attacks parliament in London
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02 Jun 1793 French Revolution: François Hanriot, leader of the Parisian National Guard, arrests 22 Girondists selected by Jean-Paul Marat, setting the stage for the Reign of Terror.
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02 Jun 1805 Napoleonic Wars: A Franco-Spanish fleet recaptures Diamond Rock, an uninhabited island at the entrance to the bay leading to Fort-de-France, from the British.
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02 Jun 1834 5th national black convention meet (NYC)
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02 Jun 1835 P T Barnum and his circus begin 1st tour of US
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02 Jun 1835 P. T. Barnum and his circus start their first tour of the United States.
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02 Jun 1848 The Slavic congress in Prague begins.
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02 Jun 1851 1st US alcohol prohibition law enacted (Maine)
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02 Jun 1855 The Portland Rum Riot occurs in Portland, Maine.
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02 Jun 1857 James Gibbs, Va, patents chain-stitch single-thread sewing machine
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02 Jun 1862 Gen Robert E Lee takes command of Confederate armies of East Virginia and North Carolina
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02 Jun 1863 Harriet Tubman leads Union guerrillas into Maryland, freeing slaves
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02 Jun 1864 Battle of Cold Harbour, Day 2
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02 Jun 1865 At Galveston, Kirby-Smith surrenders Trans-Mississippi Dept
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02 Jun 1866 Renegade Irish Fenians surrender to US forces
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02 Jun 1866 Fenian raids: The Fenians are victorious over Canadian forces in both the Battle of Ridgeway and the Battle of Fort Erie.
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02 Jun 1875 James Augustine Healey became 1st Black Catholic Bishop in US
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02 Jun 1876 Hristo Botev, a national revolutionary of Bulgaria, is killed in Stara Planina
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02 Jun 1881 Haarlem-Zandvoort Railway opens
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02 Jun 1882 Pierre de Brazza festival welcomed in Paris
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02 Jun 1883 1st night baseball under lights, Ft Wayne Indiana
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02 Jun 1886 Grover Cleveland is 1st to wed during presidency (Frances Folsom)
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02 Jun 1886 The U.S. President Grover Cleveland marries Frances Folsom in the White House, becoming the only president to wed in the executive mansion.
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02 Jun 1896 Guglielmo Marconi patents the radio
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02 Jun 1896 Guglielmo Marconi applies for a patent for his newest invention, the radio.
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02 Jun 1899 Black Americans observed day of fasting to protest lynchings
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02 Jun 1901 Benjamin Adams arrested for playing golf on Sunday (NY)
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02 Jun 1902 2nd statewide initiative and referendum law adopted, in Oregon
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02 Jun 1903 Netherlands Korfball League forms
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02 Jun 1903 Pirates win a triple header from Dodgers
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02 Jun 1904 Professor Schron finds microbe that causes photosynthesis
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02 Jun 1908 33rd Preakness: Eddie Dugan aboard Royal Tourist wins in 1:46.4
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02 Jun 1909 43rd Belmont: Eddie Dugan aboard Joe Madden wins in 2:21.6
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02 Jun 1909 Alfred Deakin becomes Prime Minister of Australia for the third time.
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02 Jun 1910 1st roundtrip flight over English Channel (C S Rolls, England)
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02 Jun 1910 Pygmies discovered in Dutch New Guinea
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02 Jun 1910 Charles Rolls, a co-founder of Rolls-Royce Limited, becomes the first man to make a non-stop double crossing of the English Channel by plane.
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02 Jun 1913 1st strike settlement mediated by US Department of Labor - RR clerks
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02 Jun 1913 Demonstrations for general voting right in Neth
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02 Jun 1914 Glenn Curtiss flies his Langley Aerodrome
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02 Jun 1916 German troops under Lt Rackow take Fort Vaux
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02 Jun 1919 Pulitzer prize awarded to Carl Sandburg (Cornhuskers)
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02 Jun 1919 Anarchists simultaneously set off bombs in eight separate U.S. cities.
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02 Jun 1922 Suffy McInnis (1st base) ends an errorless string of 1,700 chances
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02 Jun 1924 Snyder Act: US citizenship granted to all American Indians
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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.
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02 Jun 1925 New York Yankee Lou Gehrig begins his 2,130 consecutive game streak
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02 Jun 1928 Velveeta Cheese created by Kraft
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02 Jun 1930 Sarah Dickson becomes 1st woman Presbyterian elder in US, Cincinnati
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02 Jun 1932 Franz von Papen "Cabinet of the Baron" premieres
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02 Jun 1933 FDR authorizes 1st swimming pool built inside the White House
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02 Jun 1933 WNJ-AM in Newark New Jersey goes off the air
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02 Jun 1935 Babe Ruth, 40, announces his retirement as a player
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02 Jun 1936 Gen Anastasio Somoza takes over as Dictator of Nicaragua
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02 Jun 1940 Heavy German bombing on Dunkirk beach
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02 Jun 1941 World War II: German paratoopers murder Greek civilians in the village of Kondomari.
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02 Jun 1942 Red Sox star Ted Williams enlists as a Navy aviator
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02 Jun 1943 99th Pursuit Squadron flies 1st combat mission (over Italy)
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02 Jun 1943 German assault on Sebastopol Krim, begins
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02 Jun 1944 Generals Eisenhower and Montgomery dine in Portsmouth
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02 Jun 1944 Judendurchgangslager Vught disbands
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02 Jun 1946 Italian plebiscite chooses Republic over monarchy (National Day)
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02 Jun 1946 Birth of the Italian Republic: In a referendum, Italians vote to turn Italy from a monarchy into a Republic. After the referendum, King Umberto II of Italy is exiled.
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02 Jun 1947 "Louisiana Lady" opens at Century Theater NYC for 4 performances
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02 Jun 1947 Hungarian Premier Ferenc Nagy resigns
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02 Jun 1949 Transjordan renamed Jordan
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02 Jun 1950 St. Louis Browns pitcher Harry Dorish swipes home vs. Washingston Senators
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02 Jun 1952 650,000 metal workers go on strike in US
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02 Jun 1952 Maurice Olley of General Motors begins designing the Corvette
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02 Jun 1953 Coronation of Queen Elizabeth II in Westminster Abbey
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02 Jun 1953 The coronation of Queen Elizabeth II, who is crowned Queen of the United Kingdom, Canada, Australia, New Zealand and Her Other Realms and Territories & Head of the Commonwealth, the first major international event to be televised.
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02 Jun 1954 John Costello (Cons) becomes Premier of Ireland
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02 Jun 1955 The USSR and Yugoslavia sign the Belgrade declaration and thus normalize relations between both countries, discontinued since 1948.
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02 Jun 1956 Yugoslav President Tito visits Moscow
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02 Jun 1957 Fay Crocker wins LPGA Triangle Round Robin Golf Tournament
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02 Jun 1957 US TV interviews Khrushchev
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02 Jun 1958 Alan Freed joins WABC (NYC) radio
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02 Jun 1958 Brooks Robinson, hits into 1st of record 4 triple plays
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02 Jun 1958 Yankees pitcher Whitey Ford fans 6 in a row to tie an AL record
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02 Jun 1959 Allen Ginsberg writes his poem "Lysergic Acid", San Francisco
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02 Jun 1960 Broadway theaters close (labor dispute between owners & Actors Equity)
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02 Jun 1962 32nd French Mens Tennis: Rod Laver beats Roy Emerson (36 26 63 97 62)
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02 Jun 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.
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02 Jun 1963 Mickey Wright wins LPGA Babe Didrikson-Zaharias Golf Open
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02 Jun 1964 "Follies Bergere" opens at Broadway Theater NYC for 191 performances
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02 Jun 1964 Lal Bahadur Sjastri elected Premier of India
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02 Jun 1964 Rolling Stones 1st US concert tour debuts in Lynn, Massachusetts
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02 Jun 1965 2nd of 2 cyclones in less than a month kills 35,000 (Ganges R India)
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02 Jun 1966 US Surveyor 1 lands in Oceanus Procellarum; 1st lunar soft-landing
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02 Jun 1966 Surveyor program: Surveyor 1 lands in Oceanus Procellarum on the Moon, becoming the first U.S. spacecraft to soft-land on another world.
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02 Jun 1967 Race riots in Roxbury section of Boston
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02 Jun 1967 Luis Monge is executed in Colorado's gas chamber, in the last pre-Furman execution in the United States.
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02 Jun 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.
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02 Jun 1968 Canadians must get government permission to export silver
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02 Jun 1968 WBLG (now WTVQ) TV channel 62 in Lexington, KY (ABC) 1st broadcast
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02 Jun 1969 Australian aircraft carrier "Melbourne" slices US destroyer "Frank E Evans" in half, killing 74 (South Vietnam)
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02 Jun 1971 Ajax wins 16th Europe Cup 1
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02 Jun 1973 "Nash at Nine" closes at Helen Hayes Theater NYC after 21 performances
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02 Jun 1974 Judy Rankin wins LPGA Baltimore Golf Classic
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02 Jun 1974 Mali adopts constitution
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02 Jun 1975 1st time snow fell in London in June
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02 Jun 1975 James A Healy, 1st black Roman Catholic bishop, consecrated (Maine)
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02 Jun 1975 VP Rockefeller finds no pattern of illegal activities at CIA
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02 Jun 1977 New Jersey allows casino gambling in Atlantic City
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02 Jun 1979 John Paul II becomes 1st Pope to visit a communist country (Poland)
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02 Jun 1979 NASA launches space vehicle S-198
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02 Jun 1979 Pope John Paul II starts his first official visit to his native Poland, becoming the first Pope to visit a Communist country.
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02 Jun 1981 Barbara Walters asks Katharine Hepburn what kind of tree she would be
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02 Jun 1982 "Blues in the Night" opens at Rialto Theater NYC for 53 performances
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02 Jun 1983 1980 movie "Attack of the Killer Tomatoes, " released in Germany
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02 Jun 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.
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02 Jun 1984 "Welcome To Fun Zone" hosted by Dr Demento airs on NBC-TV
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02 Jun 1984 Actress Jill Ireland has a radical mastectomy
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02 Jun 1985 31st LPGA Championship won by Nancy Lopez
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02 Jun 1985 39th Tony Awards: Biloxi Blues and Big River win
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02 Jun 1985 Andreas Papandreous PASOK-party wins election in Greece
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02 Jun 1985 RJ Reynolds Company proposed a merger with Nabisco
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02 Jun 1986 New York City transit system issues a new brass with steel bullseye token
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02 Jun 1986 Regular TV coverage of US Senate sessions begins
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02 Jun 1987 Mariners draft Ken Griffey Jr #1
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02 Jun 1988 61st National Spelling Bee: Rageshree Ramachandran wins spelling elegiacal
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02 Jun 1988 Consumer Reports calls for a ban on the Suzuki Samurai automobile
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02 Jun 1989 "Dead Poets Society" starring Robin Williams, premieres
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02 Jun 1989 10,000 Chinese soldiers are blocked by 100,000 citizens protecting students demonstrating for democracy in Tiananmen Square, Beijing
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02 Jun 1989 14 year old Scott Isaacs spells spoliator to win 1989 Spelling Bee
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02 Jun 1989 Cincinnati Red Eric Davis hits for cycle
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02 Jun 1989 Rolling Stones Bill Wyman marries Mandy Smith
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02 Jun 1990 "Turtle Power" by Partners In Kryme hits #13
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02 Jun 1990 The Lower Ohio Valley tornado outbreak spawns 66 confirmed tornadoes in Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, and Ohio, killing 12. Petersburg, Indiana, is the hardest-hit town in the outbreak, with six deaths.
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02 Jun 1991 45th Tony Awards: Lost in Yonkers and Will Rogers Follies win
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02 Jun 1991 Rosie Jones wins LPGA Rochester Golf International
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02 Jun 1991 Three Andrettis finished 1-2-3 in the Miller 200 at Wisconsin
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02 Jun 1992 Former NFL New York Giant Coach Bill Parcells undergoes open heart surgery
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02 Jun 1992 Wilson Phillips release their 2nd album "Shadows & Light"
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02 Jun 1994 67th National Spelling Bee: Ned Andrews wins spelling antediluvian
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02 Jun 1994 Chinook helicopter crashes in North Scotland (29 killed)
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02 Jun 1994 Sharon Stone files $12m suit against her jeweler
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02 Jun 1995 John Valentin hits 3 HRs
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02 Jun 1995 United States Air Force Captain Scott O'Grady's F-16 is shot down over Bosnia while patrolling the NATO no-fly zone.
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02 Jun 1996 50th Tony Awards: Master Class and Rent win
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02 Jun 1997 Liberals beat Conservatives in France
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02 Jun 1997 Timothy McVeigh found guilty of 1995 Okla City bombing, killing 168
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02 Jun 1997 In Denver, 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. He was executed four years later.
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02 Jun 1999 The Bhutan Broadcasting Service brings television transmissions to the Kingdom for the first time.
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02 Jun 2003 Europe launches its first voyage to another planet, Mars. The European Space Agency's Mars Express probe launches from the Baikonur space center in Kazakhstan.
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02 Jun 2004 Ken Jennings begins his 74-game winning streak on the syndicated game show Jeopardy!
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02 Jun 2012 The former Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak is sentenced to life imprisonment for his role in the killing of demonstrators during the 2011 Egyptian revolution.
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02 Jun 2014 Telangana officially becomes the 29th state of India.
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