June 2
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[edit] Events
- 455 - The Vandals enter Rome, and plunder the city for two weeks.
- 1098 - First Crusade: The first Siege of Antioch ends as Crusader forces take the city. The second siege would later start on June 7.
- 1835 - P. T. Barnum and his circus begins their first tour of the United States.
- 1896 - Guglielmo Marconi receives a patent for his newest invention: the radio.
- 1946 - Birth of the Italian Republic
- 1948 - The Doctor’s Trial executions at Landsberg prison, Bavaria
- 1997 - In Denver, Colorado, Timothy McVeigh is convicted on 15 counts of murder and conspiracy for his role in the 1995 terrorist bombing of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma.
[edit] Births
- 1731 - Martha Washington, First American first lady (d. 1802)
[edit] Deaths
- 1882 - Giuseppe Garibaldi, Italian revolutionarist (b. 1807)
- 1948 - Viktor Brack, German physician (b. 1904)
- 1948 - Karl Brandt, personal physician of Adolf Hitler (b. 1904)
- 1948 - Karl Gebhardt, German physician (b. 1897)
- 1948 - Waldemar Hoven, German physician (b. 1903)
- 1948 - Wolfram Sievers, German physician (b. 1905)
