Editing June 2 (section)

==Events==
===Pre-1600===
* [[455]] &ndash; [[Sack of Rome (455)|Sack of Rome]]: [[Vandals]] enter Rome, and plunder the city for two weeks.<ref>{{Cite book |url=https://archive.org/details/cambridgemediev00whitgoog |title=The Cambridge Medieval History |last1=Gwatkin |first1=Henry Melvill |last2=Whitney |first2=James Pounder |last3=Tanner |first3=Joseph Robson |last4=Previté-Orton |first4=Charles William |last5=Brooke |first5=Zachary Nugent |publisher=Macmillan |year=1911 |pages=[https://archive.org/details/cambridgemediev00whitgoog/page/n366 308] |display-authors=2 |quote=On 2 June Gaiseric marched into Rome ... The Vandals stayed a fortnight...}}</ref>
*[[1098]] &ndash; [[First Crusade]]: The first [[Siege of Antioch]] ends as Crusader forces take the city; the second siege began five days later.<ref>{{cite book |chapter=The Gateway to the Middle East: Antioch, 1098 |title=Special Operations in the Age of Chivalry, 1100–1550 |first=Yuval Noah |last=Harari| author-link=Yuval Noah Harari|year=2007 |publisher=The Boydell Press |pages=53–73}}</ref>

===1601–1900===
*[[1608]] &ndash; The [[Colony of Virginia]] gets a charter, extending borders from "sea to sea".<ref>{{cite book|first=Clifton|last=Daniel|title=Chronicle of America|publisher=Chronicle publication|year=1989|page=48|isbn=0-13-133745-9}}</ref> 
*[[1615]] &ndash; The first [[Récollet]] [[missionaries]] arrive at [[Quebec City]], from [[Rouen]], France.<ref>{{cite book|title=The Americas|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=3akSAAAAIAAJ|year=1948|publisher=Academy of American Franciscan History|page=7}}</ref>
*[[1676]] &ndash; [[Franco-Dutch War]]: [[Kingdom of France|France]] ensured the supremacy of its naval fleet for the remainder of the war with its victory in the [[Battle of Palermo]].<ref>{{cite book|author=Philip Parker|title=Collins Atlas of Military History|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=UugZAQAAMAAJ|year=2004|publisher=Collins|isbn=978-0-00-716639-8|page=65}}</ref>
*[[1692]] &ndash; [[Bridget Bishop]] is the first person to be [[Salem witch trials|tried for witchcraft]] in [[Salem, Massachusetts]]; she was found guilty the same day and hanged on June 10.<ref>{{cite book|last=Rosenthal|first=Bernard|title=Salem Story: Reading the Witch Trials of 1692|location=Cambridge, UK|publisher=Cambridge University Press|date=1993|isbn=9780521558204|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=YNYyMV_huGAC|page=67}}</ref>
*[[1763]] &ndash; [[Pontiac's Rebellion]]: At what is now [[Mackinaw City, Michigan]], [[Chippewa]]s capture [[Fort Michilimackinac]] by diverting the garrison's attention with a game of [[lacrosse]], then chasing a ball into the fort.<ref>{{cite book|last1=Dunbar|first1=Willis F.|last2=May|first2=George S.|title=Michigan: A History of the Wolverine State|location=Grand Rapids, Mich.|publisher=W.B. Eerdmans|date=1995|isbn=9780802870551|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=HqGWEAnByeMC|pages=67–68}}</ref>
*[[1774]] &ndash; [[Intolerable Acts]]: The [[Quartering Act|Quartering Act of 1774]] is enacted, allowing a governor in [[Thirteen Colonies|colonial America]] to house British soldiers in uninhabited houses, outhouses, barns, or other buildings if suitable quarters are not provided.<ref>{{cite book|last=Mays|first=Terry M.|title=Historical Dictionary of Revolutionary America|location=Lanham, Md.|publisher=Scarecrow Press|date=2005|isbn=9780810853898|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=QAgEVl8wQmsC|pages=233–234}}</ref>
*[[1780]] &ndash; The anti-Catholic [[Gordon Riots]] in London leave an estimated 300 to 700 people dead.<ref>George Rudé, "The Gordon Riots: A Study of the Rioters and Their Victims: The Alexander Prize Essay," Transactions of the Royal Historical Society Vol. 6 (1956), p. 97-98</ref>
*[[1793]] &ndash; [[French Revolution]]: [[François Hanriot]], leader of the Parisian National Guard, arrests 22 [[Girondist]]s selected by [[Jean-Paul Marat]], setting the stage for the [[Reign of Terror]].<ref>{{cite book|last=Corfield|first=Justin|chapter=Hanriot, François (1761-1794)|title=Encyclopedia of the Age of Political Revolutions and New Ideologies, 1760-1815. Vol. 1|editor-last=Fremont-Barnes|editor-first=Gregory|location=Westport, Conn.|publisher=Greenwood Press|date=2007|isbn=9780313334450|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=MEbPEAAAQBAJ|page=326}}</ref>
*[[1805]] &ndash; [[Napoleonic Wars]]: A [[First French Empire|Franco]]-[[Enlightenment in Spain|Spanish]] fleet [[Battle of Diamond Rock|recaptures from the British]] the island of [[Diamond Rock]], which guards the entrance to the bay leading to [[Fort-de-France]], Martinique.<ref>{{cite book|last=Marley|first=David|title=Wars of the Americas: A Chronology of Armed Conflict in the Western Hemisphere, 1492 to the Present. Vol. 1|location=Santa Barbara, Calif.|publisher=ABC-CLIO|date=2008|isbn=9781598841008|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=VafOEAAAQBAJ|page=562}}</ref>
*[[1848]] &ndash; The [[Prague Slavic Congress, 1848|Slavic Congress]] opens in [[Prague]].<ref>{{cite book|last=Leiner|first=Martin|chapter=Setting the Stage: An Introductory Clarification of Concepts of East Central Europe|title=The Former Soviet Union and East Central Europe Between Conflict and Reconciliation. Vol. 4: Research in Peace and Reconciliation|editor-last1=Feldman|editor-first1=Lily Gardner|editor-last2=Barash|editor-first2=Raisa|editor-last3=Goda|editor-first3=Samuel|editor-last4=Zempelburg|editor-first4=André|location=Göttingen|publisher=Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht|date=2019|isbn=9783525560334|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=V8zkEAAAQBAJ|page=20}}</ref>
*[[1866]] &ndash; The [[Fenian Brotherhood|Fenians]] defeat Canadian forces at [[Battle of Ridgeway|Ridgeway]] and [[Battle of Fort Erie (1866)|Fort Erie]], but the raids end soon after.
*[[1896]] &ndash; [[Guglielmo Marconi]] applies for a [[patent]] for his [[Wireless telegraphy|wireless telegraph]].

===1901–present===
*[[1909]] &ndash; [[Alfred Deakin]] becomes [[Prime Minister of Australia]] for the third time.
*[[1910]] &ndash; [[Charles Rolls]], a co-founder of [[Rolls-Royce Limited]], becomes the first man to make a non-stop double crossing of the [[English Channel]] by plane.
*[[1919]] &ndash; [[Anarchism|Anarchists]] simultaneously [[1919 United States anarchist bombings|set off bombs]] in eight separate U.S. cities.
*[[1924]] &ndash; U.S. President [[Calvin Coolidge]] signs the [[Indian Citizenship Act]] into law, granting [[citizenship]] to all [[Native Americans in the United States|Native Americans]] born within the territorial limits of the United States.
*[[1941]] &ndash; [[World War II]]: German [[Fallschirmjäger (World War II)|paratroopers]] murder Greek civilians in the villages of [[Massacre of Kondomari|Kondomari]] and [[Alikianos executions|Alikianos]].
*[[1946]] &ndash; [[Italian constitutional referendum, 1946|Birth of the Italian Republic]]: In a [[referendum]], [[Italy|Italians]] vote to turn Italy from a [[monarchy]] into a [[Republic]]. After the referendum, King [[Umberto II of Italy]] is exiled.
*[[1953]] &ndash; The [[coronation of Queen Elizabeth II]] at [[Westminster Abbey]] becomes the first British coronation<ref>{{cite book|author=Michael Ashley|title=British Monarchs: The Complete Genealogy, Gazetteer, and Biographical Encyclopedia of the Kings & Queens of Britain|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=tz6gAAAAMAAJ|year=1998|publisher=Robinson|isbn=978-1-85487-504-4|page=39}}</ref> and one of the first major international events to be televised.<ref>{{cite book|author=Ronald W. Lackmann|title=Remember Television|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=juEaAQAAIAAJ|year=1971|publisher=Putnam|page=112}}</ref>
*[[1955]] &ndash; The [[Soviet Union|USSR]] and [[Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia|Yugoslavia]] sign the [[Belgrade declaration]] and thus normalize relations between the two countries, discontinued since [[1948]].<ref>{{cite book|author=United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee to Investigate the Administration of the Internal Security Act and Other Internal Security Laws|title=Yugoslav Communism: A Critical Study|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=h4NpAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA270|year=1961|publisher=U.S. Government Printing Office|pages=270}}</ref>
*[[1962]] &ndash; During the [[1962 FIFA World Cup|FIFA World Cup]], police had to intervene multiple times in fights between [[Chile national football team|Chilean]] and [[Italy national football team|Italian]] players in [[Battle of Santiago (1962 FIFA World Cup)|one of the most violent games]] in [[association football|football]] history.
*[[1964]] &ndash; The [[Palestine Liberation Organization]] (PLO) is formed.<ref>[http://avalon.law.yale.edu/20th_century/plocov.asp ''The Palestinian National Charter: Resolutions of the Palestine National Council July 1-17, 1968''], on Avalon</ref>
*[[1966]] &ndash; [[Surveyor program]]: ''[[Surveyor 1]]'' lands in [[Oceanus Procellarum]] on the [[Moon]], becoming the first U.S. [[spacecraft]] to soft-land on another world.
*[[1967]] &ndash; [[Luis Monge (mass murderer)|Luis Monge]] is executed in [[capital punishment in Colorado|Colorado]]'s [[gas chamber]], in the last [[Furman v. Georgia|pre-''Furman'']] execution in the United States.
*  1967   &ndash; Protests in [[West Berlin]] against the arrival of the [[Shah]] of [[Iran]] are brutally suppressed, during which [[Benno Ohnesorg]] is killed by a police officer. His death results in the founding of the [[terrorism|terrorist]] group [[Movement 2 June]].
*[[1979]] &ndash; [[Pope John Paul II]] starts his first official visit to his native Poland, becoming the first [[Pope]] to visit a [[Communist]] country.
*[[1983]] &ndash; After an emergency landing because of an in-flight fire, twenty-three passengers aboard [[Air Canada Flight 797]] are killed when a [[flashover]] occurs as the plane's doors open. Because of this incident, numerous new safety regulations are put in place.
*[[1990]] &ndash; The [[June 1990 Lower Ohio Valley tornado outbreak|Lower Ohio Valley tornado outbreak]] spawns 66 confirmed tornadoes in [[Illinois]], [[Indiana]], [[Kentucky]], and [[Ohio]], killing 12. 
*[[1997]] &ndash; In [[Denver]], [[Timothy McVeigh]] is convicted on 15 counts of murder and [[conspiracy (criminal)|conspiracy]] for his role in the [[1995]] [[Oklahoma City bombing|bombing]] of the [[Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building]] in [[Oklahoma City]], in which 168 people died. He was executed four years later.
*[[1998]] &ndash; [[Space Shuttle Discovery|Space Shuttle ''Discovery'']] is launched on [[STS-91]], the final mission of the [[Shuttle–Mir program|Shuttle-Mir program]].<ref>{{cite news |last1=Suriano |first1=Robyn |date=June 3, 1998 |title=Final Flight to Mir Begins |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/103307198/ |access-date=7 June 2022 |work=Florida Today |page=1}}</ref>
*[[2003]] &ndash; Europe launches its first voyage to another planet, [[Mars]]. The [[European Space Agency]]'s ''[[Mars Express]]'' probe launches from the [[Baikonur]] space center in [[Kazakhstan]].
*[[2012]] &ndash; Former [[Egyptian President]] [[Hosni Mubarak]] is sentenced to [[life imprisonment]] for his role in the killing of demonstrators during the [[2011 Egyptian revolution]].
*[[2014]] &ndash; [[Telangana]] officially [[Andhra Pradesh Reorganisation Act, 2014|becomes]] the 29th [[States of India|state of India]], formed from ten districts of northwestern [[Andhra Pradesh]].
*[[2022]] &ndash; Following a request from [[Ankara]], the [[United Nations]] officially changed the name of the [[Turkey|Republic of Turkey]] in the organization from what was previously known as "Turkey" to "[[Turkey|Türkiye]]".<ref>{{Cite web |title=UN agrees to change Turkey's official name to 'Türkiye' |url=https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2022/6/2/un-registers-turkiye-as-new-country-name-for-turkey |access-date=2022-06-02 |website=www.aljazeera.com |language=en}}</ref>
*[[2023]] &ndash; A [[2023 Odisha train collision|collision between two passenger trains and a parked freight train]] near the city of [[Balasor]], [[Odisha]] in eastern [[India]], results in 296 deaths and more than 1,200 people injured.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2023-06-03 |title=Desperate search for survivors as death toll nears 300 in India train crash |url=https://www.cnn.com/2023/06/03/india/india-odisha-train-crash-saturday-intl-hnk/index.html|last1=Mogul |first1=Rhea |last2=Sidhu |first2=Sandi |last3=Rebane |first3=Teele |last4=Suri |first4=Manveena |last5=Goodwin |first5=Allegra |access-date=2023-06-03 |website=CNN |language=en}}</ref>