Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/June 2
This is a list of selected June 2 anniversaries that appear in the "On this day" section of the Main Page. To suggest a new item, in most cases, you can be bold and edit this page. Please read the selected anniversaries guidelines before making your edit. However, if your addition might be controversial or on a day that is or will soon be on the Main Page, please post your suggestion on the talk page instead.
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Scott O'Grady
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| Blurb | Reason |
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| 1098 – First Crusade: The first Siege of Antioch ended as Crusader forces captured the city, but the Seljuk Turks would later start a second siege of Antioch a few days later. | refimprove |
| 1615 – The first Recollect missionaries arrived in Quebec City in New France (now in Quebec, Canada) from Rouen. | refimprove |
| 1763 – Pontiac's War: The local Ojibwe captured Fort Michilimackinac in what is now Mackinaw City, Michigan, after diverting the garrison's attention with a game of stickball, then chasing a ball into the fort. | needs more footnotes |
| 1774 – Intolerable Acts: To restore imperial control over the Thirteen Colonies, the Parliament of Great Britain passed a second Quartering Act, reenacting a law requiring colonists to provide housing for British soldiers. | unreferenced section and this one barely merits a mention in the article |
| 1848 – As part of the Pan-Slavism movement, the Prague Slavic Congress began in Prague, the first of several times that voices from all Slav populations of Europe were heard in one place. | unreferenced section |
| 1866 – Fenian raids: The Battle of Ridgeway, the first to be fought only by Canadian troops and led exclusively by Canadian officers, took place in Ontario. | refimprove section |
| 1910 – Charles Rolls, co-founder of Rolls-Royce, became the first man to make a non-stop double crossing of the English Channel by plane. | refimprove section |
| 1946 – Italians voted to abolish the monarchy and establish the Italian Republic, exiling King Umberto II. | unreferenced section |
| 1966 – Surveyor 1 landed on the Moon. | refimprove |
| 1999 – Bhutan ended its status as the only country in the world to prohibit television when the state-run Bhutan Broadcasting Service came on the air. | refimprove |
| 2003 – The Mars Express space probe, the first planetary mission of the European Space Agency, was launched. | outdated, refimprove section |
| Thomas Hardy (b. 1840) | refimprove section |
Eligible
- 1805 – Napoleonic Wars: A Franco-Spanish fleet recaptured British-held Diamond Rock, an uninhabited island at the entrance to the bay leading to Fort-de-France.
- 1919 – First Red Scare: Anarchist followers of Luigi Galleani set off eight bombs in eight cities across the United States.
- 1924 – U.S. president Calvin Coolidge signed the Indian Citizenship Act into law, granting citizenship to all Native Americans born within the territorial limits of the United States.
- 1953 – Elizabeth II was crowned Queen of the United Kingdom at Westminster Abbey.
- 1962 – One of the most violent football matches ever took place at the World Cup when police had to intervene multiple times as Chile defeated Italy in a group match.
- 1983 – After an emergency landing because of an in-flight fire, twenty-three passengers aboard Air Canada Flight 797 were killed when a flashover occurred as the plane's doors opened.
- 1994 – The Royal Air Force suffered its worst peacetime disaster when a Chinook helicopter crashed on the Mull of Kintyre, Scotland, killing all 29 people on board.
- Born/died: Al-Muwaffaq (d. 891) | Rutger von Ascheberg (b. 1621) | William Salmon (b. 1644) | Ogata Kōrin (d. 1716) | Adelaide Casely-Hayford (b. 1865) | Gilbert Baker (b. 1951) | George S. Kaufman (d. 1961
June 2: Festa della Repubblica in Italy (1946)
- 455 – After having removed Petronius Maximus from the imperial throne, Vandals led by Genseric entered Rome and sacked the city for two weeks.
- 1886 – Grover Cleveland married Frances Folsom (wedding depicted), becoming the only U.S. president to wed in the White House.
- 1967 – German university student Benno Ohnesorg was killed during a protest in West Berlin against the visit of Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi of Iran, sparking the formation of the militant 2 June Movement.
- 1995 – Bosnian War: U.S. Air Force captain Scott O'Grady was shot down while patrolling the NATO no-fly zone over Bosnia, but ejected safely and was rescued six days later.
- 2010 – A gunman carried out a shooting spree in Cumbria, England, killing 12 people and injuring 11 others before committing suicide.
- Bernard of Wąbrzeźno (d. 1603)
- Daniel Pollen (b. 1813)
- Abby Wambach (b. 1980)