June 2
1886 - Grover Cleveland became the first U.S. president to get married in the White House.
1924 - Congress passed, and President Calvin Coolidge signed, a measure guaranteeing full American citizenship for all Native Americans born within U.S. territorial limits.
1946 - In Italy, a plebiscite rejected the monarchy in favor of a republic.
1953 - The coronation of Queen Elizabeth II took place in London's Westminster Abbey, 16 months following the death of her father, King George VI.
1966 - U.S. space probe Surveyor 1 landed on the moon and began transmitting detailed photographs of the lunar surface.
1979 - Pope John Paul II arrived in his native Poland on the first visit by a pope to a Communist country.
1981 - The Japanese video arcade game "Donkey Kong" was released by Nintendo.
1997 - Timothy McVeigh was convicted of murder and conspiracy in the 1995 bombing of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City that killed 168 people. (McVeigh was executed in June 2001.)
1999 - South Africans went to the polls in their second post-apartheid election, giving the African National Congress a decisive victory; retiring president Nelson Mandela was succeeded by Thabo Mbeki.
2011 - A judge in Placerville, California, sentenced serial sex offender Phillip Garrido to life in prison for kidnapping and raping Jaycee Dugard; Garrido's wife, Nancy, received a decades-long sentence.
2016 - Autopsy results showed superstar musician Prince died of an accidental overdose of fentanyl, a powerful opioid painkiller.
2018 - The number of homes destroyed reached 80 in an eruption of Hawaii's Kilauea Volcano. (The eruption would eventually destroy more than 700 homes.)
2020 - Defying curfews, protesters streamed back into the nation's streets, hours after President Donald Trump urged governors to put down the violence set off by the death of George Floyd. Police said four officers were hit by gunfire after protests in St. Louis that began peacefully became violent.
2022 - Queen Elizabeth II drew wild cheers from a crowd of tens of thousands as she carefully stepped on to the Buckingham Palace balcony at the start of four days of celebrations of her 70 years on the throne. (The queen's reign would end with her death three months later).
Birthdays
22 - Madison Hu (actress)
23 - Lilimar Hernandez (actress)
27 - Brittany O'Grady (actress)
28 - Sterling Beaumon (actor)
33 - Brittany Curran (actress)
35 - Awkwafina (rapper/actress)
43 - Abby Wambach (soccer player)
44 - Morena Baccarin (actress)
45 - AJ Styles (professional wrestler)
45 - Deon Richmond (actor)
45 - Justin Long (actor)
45 - Nikki Cox (actress)
45 - Dominic Cooper (actor)
46 - Zachary Quinto (actor)
51 - Wentworth Miller (actor)
51 - Wayne Brady (actor/TV host)
52 - Anthony Montgomery (actor)
53 - Paula Cale (actress)
55 - Andy Cohen (TV personality)
62 - Liam Cunningham (actor)
68 - Gary Grimes (actor)
68 - Dana Carvey (actor/comedian)
69 - Dennis Haysbert (actor)
71 - Gary Bettman (NHL commissioner)
73 - Joanna Gleason (actress)
75 - Jerry Mathers (actor)
80 - Charles Haid (actor)
82 - Stacy Keach (actor)
85 - Ron Ely (actor)
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Today in Sports History - June 2
1883 - The first baseball game under electric lights was played in Fort Wayne, Indiana.
1935 - George Herman "Babe" Ruth announced that he was retiring from baseball.
1941 - Baseball Hall of Famer Lou Gehrig died at age 37 of Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS), a rare type of paralysis now commonly referred to as Lou Gehrig's disease.
1948 - The NHL announced that the Art Ross Trophy would be awarded annually to the scoring leader. Elmer Lach (Montreal Canadiens) was the first winner with 61 points in 1947-48.
1990 - Randy Johnson achieved the first no-hitter in Seattle Mariner history.
2000 - Fred McGriff (Tampa Bay Devil Rays) became the 31st major league player to hit 400 career home runs.
2018 - Bare-knuckle boxing matches took place in front of 2,000 rowdy fans at a hockey rink in Cheyenne, Wyoming; the event, promoted as the first legal, regulated and sanctioned bare-knuckle fight event in U.S. history, featured 10 bouts and was viewed by tens of thousands via pay-per-view.
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