Editing June 2 (section)

===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>