June 2
Today is the 153rd day of 2017, there are 212 days left in the year.
1851 - Maine became the first state to enact a law prohibiting alcohol.
1886 - Grover Cleveland, age 46, became the first, and to date the only, U.S. president to get married in the White House, marrying 21-year-old Frances Folsom.
1897 - Mark Twain was quoted by the New York Journal as saying "the report of my death was an exaggeration."
1924 - Congress granted U.S. citizenship to all American Indians.
1946 - In Italy, a plebiscite rejected the monarchy in favor of a republic.
1953 - Queen Elizabeth II of Britain was crowned in Westminster Abbey, 16 months after 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.
1976 - Arizona Republic investigative reporter Don Bolles was mortally injured by a bomb planted underneath his car; he died 11 days later. (Prosecutors believed Bolles was targeted because he had written stories that upset a liquor wholesaler; three men were convicted of the killing.)
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" made its debut in the United States.
1986 - For the first time, the public could watch the proceedings of the U.S. Senate on television as a six-week experiment began on what became C-SPAN2.
1987 - President Ronald Reagan announced he was nominating economist Alan Greenspan to succeed Paul Volcker as chairman of the Federal Reserve Board.
1997 - Timothy McVeigh was found guilty of the 1995 bombing of the federal building in Oklahoma City which killed 168 people.
1998 - Voters in California passed Proposition 227, requiring that all schoolchildren be taught in English.
2003 - The European Space Agency launched the Mars Express probe. Contact with the lander Beagle 2 was lost in December.
2007 - U.S. authorities said four Muslim men had been prevented from carrying out a plot to destroy John F. Kennedy International Airport, kill thousands of people and trigger an economic catastrophe by blowing up a jet fuel artery running through populous New York residential neighborhoods. (Three of the men were later sentenced to life in prison; the fourth was sentenced to 15 years behind bars.)
2011 - Former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney announced his bid for the Republican presidential nomination.
2012 - Ousted Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak was sentenced to life in prison after a court convicted him on charges of complicity in the killing of protesters during the 2011 uprising that forced him from power.
Birthdays
21 - Brittany O'Grady (actress)
22 - Sterling Beaumon (actor)
27 - Eddie Lacy (football player)
29 - Amber Marshall (actress)
29 - Zuri Hall (TV host)
30 - Whitney Call (comedian)
30 - Sonakshi Sinha (actress)
36 - Velvet Sky (professional wrestler)
37 - Abby Wambach (soccer player)
38 - Morena Baccarin (actress)
39 - Justin Long (actor)
40 - Zachary Quinto (actor)
45 - Wayne Brady (actor)
45 - Wentworth Miller (actor)
49 - Beetlejuice (comedian)
49 - Andy Cohen (TV host)
62 - Dana Carvey (actor)
75 - Maree Cheatham (actress)
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Today in Sports History - June 2
1883 - The first baseball game under electric lights was played in Fort Wayne, Indiana.
1903 - The Pittsburgh Pirates and Brooklyn Dodgers play a triple header.
1935 - Babe Ruth announced his retirement from baseball.
1941 - Baseball great Lou Gehrig died at age 37 from 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.
1989 - Cincinnati Reds player Eric Davis hits for the cycle.
1990 - Randy Johnson achieved the first no-hitter in Seattle Mariner history.
1996 - Tim Belcher (Kansas City Royals) won his 100th career game.
2000 - Fred McGriff (Tampa Bay Devil Rays) became the 31st major league player to hit 400 career home runs.
2000 - Nebraska opened the Palo Alto Super Regional with a 7-3 win over Stanford.
2001 - Nebraska defeated Rice 9-6 to win the Lincoln Super Regional and advance to the College World Series for the first time in school history.
2002 - Nebraska defeated Southwest Missouri State 14-3 to win the Lincoln Regional.
2006 - Nebraska fell to Manhattan 4-1 in the opening game of the Lincoln Regional.
2007 - Nebraska defeated Monmouth 6-5 in an elimination game at the Tempe Regional.
2010 - Ken Griffey Jr. announces his retirement from baseball at age 40. Griffey ends his career ranked fifth on the all-time home run list with 630.
2010 - Detroit Tigers pitcher Armando Galarraga lost his bid for a perfect game against the Cleveland Indians with two outs in the ninth inning on a call that first base umpire Jim Joyce later admitted he'd blown.
2015 - FIFA President Sepp Blatter announces his intention to resign amidst an FBI-led corruption investigation, and calls for an extraordinary congress to elect a new president as soon as possible.
Today is the 153rd day of 2017, there are 212 days left in the year.
1851 - Maine became the first state to enact a law prohibiting alcohol.
1886 - Grover Cleveland, age 46, became the first, and to date the only, U.S. president to get married in the White House, marrying 21-year-old Frances Folsom.
1897 - Mark Twain was quoted by the New York Journal as saying "the report of my death was an exaggeration."
1924 - Congress granted U.S. citizenship to all American Indians.
1946 - In Italy, a plebiscite rejected the monarchy in favor of a republic.
1953 - Queen Elizabeth II of Britain was crowned in Westminster Abbey, 16 months after 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.
1976 - Arizona Republic investigative reporter Don Bolles was mortally injured by a bomb planted underneath his car; he died 11 days later. (Prosecutors believed Bolles was targeted because he had written stories that upset a liquor wholesaler; three men were convicted of the killing.)
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" made its debut in the United States.
1986 - For the first time, the public could watch the proceedings of the U.S. Senate on television as a six-week experiment began on what became C-SPAN2.
1987 - President Ronald Reagan announced he was nominating economist Alan Greenspan to succeed Paul Volcker as chairman of the Federal Reserve Board.
1997 - Timothy McVeigh was found guilty of the 1995 bombing of the federal building in Oklahoma City which killed 168 people.
1998 - Voters in California passed Proposition 227, requiring that all schoolchildren be taught in English.
2003 - The European Space Agency launched the Mars Express probe. Contact with the lander Beagle 2 was lost in December.
2007 - U.S. authorities said four Muslim men had been prevented from carrying out a plot to destroy John F. Kennedy International Airport, kill thousands of people and trigger an economic catastrophe by blowing up a jet fuel artery running through populous New York residential neighborhoods. (Three of the men were later sentenced to life in prison; the fourth was sentenced to 15 years behind bars.)
2011 - Former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney announced his bid for the Republican presidential nomination.
2012 - Ousted Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak was sentenced to life in prison after a court convicted him on charges of complicity in the killing of protesters during the 2011 uprising that forced him from power.
Birthdays
21 - Brittany O'Grady (actress)
22 - Sterling Beaumon (actor)
27 - Eddie Lacy (football player)
29 - Amber Marshall (actress)
29 - Zuri Hall (TV host)
30 - Whitney Call (comedian)
30 - Sonakshi Sinha (actress)
36 - Velvet Sky (professional wrestler)
37 - Abby Wambach (soccer player)
38 - Morena Baccarin (actress)
39 - Justin Long (actor)
40 - Zachary Quinto (actor)
45 - Wayne Brady (actor)
45 - Wentworth Miller (actor)
49 - Beetlejuice (comedian)
49 - Andy Cohen (TV host)
62 - Dana Carvey (actor)
75 - Maree Cheatham (actress)
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Today in Sports History - June 2
1883 - The first baseball game under electric lights was played in Fort Wayne, Indiana.
1903 - The Pittsburgh Pirates and Brooklyn Dodgers play a triple header.
1935 - Babe Ruth announced his retirement from baseball.
1941 - Baseball great Lou Gehrig died at age 37 from 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.
1989 - Cincinnati Reds player Eric Davis hits for the cycle.
1990 - Randy Johnson achieved the first no-hitter in Seattle Mariner history.
1996 - Tim Belcher (Kansas City Royals) won his 100th career game.
2000 - Fred McGriff (Tampa Bay Devil Rays) became the 31st major league player to hit 400 career home runs.
2000 - Nebraska opened the Palo Alto Super Regional with a 7-3 win over Stanford.
2001 - Nebraska defeated Rice 9-6 to win the Lincoln Super Regional and advance to the College World Series for the first time in school history.
2002 - Nebraska defeated Southwest Missouri State 14-3 to win the Lincoln Regional.
2006 - Nebraska fell to Manhattan 4-1 in the opening game of the Lincoln Regional.
2007 - Nebraska defeated Monmouth 6-5 in an elimination game at the Tempe Regional.
2010 - Ken Griffey Jr. announces his retirement from baseball at age 40. Griffey ends his career ranked fifth on the all-time home run list with 630.
2010 - Detroit Tigers pitcher Armando Galarraga lost his bid for a perfect game against the Cleveland Indians with two outs in the ninth inning on a call that first base umpire Jim Joyce later admitted he'd blown.
2015 - FIFA President Sepp Blatter announces his intention to resign amidst an FBI-led corruption investigation, and calls for an extraordinary congress to elect a new president as soon as possible.
