Vero - Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/June 2

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  Surveyor 1
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  Charles Rolls
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  Capture of Diamond Rock
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  Luigi Galleani
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  Scott O'Grady
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  Pemulwuy
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  Coronation portrait of Elizabeth II and Philip, Duke of Edinburgh
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  Diamond Rock
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  Elizabeth II on her coronation day
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  K. Chandrashekar Rao

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455 – After having removed Petronius Maximus from the imperial throne, Vandals led by Genseric entered Rome and began sacking the city for two weeks.	Lede too short orange banner
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.	refimprove
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
1793 – French Revolution: A popular insurrection ended with Parisian sans-culottes led by François Hanriot arresting 22 members of the dominant Girondist faction in the National Convention.	Citations needed
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
1924 – The Indian Citizenship Act was signed into law, granting citizenship to all Native Americans born within the territorial limits of the United States.	Undercited
1946 – Italians voted to abolish the monarchy and establish the Italian Republic, exiling King [[Umberto II of Italy|Template:Nowrap]].	unreferenced section
1962 – One of the most violent football matches took place at the World Cup as Chile defeated Italy in a group match.	7 {cn} tags
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
Alexander Shulgin |d|2014	orange-tagged

Eligible

• 1805 – Napoleonic Wars: A Franco-Spanish fleet recaptured the British-held Diamond Rock, an uninhabited island at the entrance to the bay leading to Fort-de-France, Martinique.
• 1886 – The wedding of Grover Cleveland and Frances Folsom took place in the White House, in the only time that a U.S. president has married in the building.
• 1955 - The USSR and Yugoslavia sign the Belgrade declaration, legitimising different intepretations of Marxism in non-Soviet countries.
• 1967 – Benno Ohnesorg, a German university student, was killed in West Berlin while protesting against the visit of Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi of Iran; the anarchist militant 2 June Movement was later named after the incident.
• 1983 – After an emergency landing due to an in-flight fire, 23 passengers aboard Air Canada Flight 797 were killed when a flashover occurred as the aircraft's doors opened.
• 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.
• 2014 – The Indian state of Telangana was officially formed, with K. Chandrashekar Rao (pictured) becoming its first chief minister after his party, the Telangana Rashtra Samithi, secured a majority in the legislative assembly election.
• Born/died: | Al-Muwaffaq |d|891| Rutger von Ascheberg |b|1621| Ogata Kōrin |d|1716| Daniel Pollen |b|1813| Adelaide Casely-Hayford |b|1868| George S. Kaufman |d|1961| Karen Mok |b|1970| Abby Wambach |b|1980| Fazal Ilahi Chaudhry |d|1982|

June 2: Festa della Repubblica in Italy (1946); King's Official Birthday in New Zealand (2025); Western Australia Day (2025) Template:Main page image/OTD

• 1802 – Henry Hacking killed the Aboriginal Australian resistance fighter Pemulwuy after Philip Gidley King ordered that he be brought in dead or alive.
• 1919 – First Red Scare: The anarchist followers of Luigi Galleani (pictured) set off eight bombs in eight cities across the United States.
• 1953 – Queen Elizabeth II was crowned at Westminster Abbey in London.
• 1973 – Della Aleksander co-presented an episode of Open Door on transgender women's lives.
• 2023 – A collision between two passenger trains and a parked freight train near the city of Balasore, Odisha, in eastern India resulted in 296 deaths and more than 1,200 people injured.