June 2
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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.
- 1909 – Alfred Deakin becomes Prime Minister of Australia for the third time.
- 1946 - Birth of the Italian Republic
- 1948 - The Doctor’s Trial executions at Landsberg prison, Bavaria
- 1953 – The coronation of Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom, the first to be televised.
- 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.
Births
- 1731 - Martha Washington, First American first lady (d. 1802)
- 1948 - Mark Rudd, Jewish Weatherman terrorist
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)
