SomeFacts | June 2

On this day - June 2

260 — Sima Zhao's regicide of Cao Mao: The figurehead Wei ...

455 — Sack of Rome: Vandals enter Rome, and plunder the city for two ...

1098 — First Crusade: The first Siege of Antioch ends as Crusader ...

1608 — The Colony of Virginia gets a charter, extending borders from ...

1615 — The first Récollet missionaries arrive at Quebec City, from ...

1676 — Franco-Dutch War: France ensured the supremacy of its naval ...

1692 — Bridget Bishop is the first person to be tried for witchcraft ...

1763 — Pontiac's Rebellion: At what is now Mackinaw City, ...

1774 — Intolerable Acts: The Quartering Act of 1774 is enacted, ...

1780 — The anti-Catholic Gordon Riots in London leave an estimated ...

1793 — French Revolution: François Hanriot, leader of the Parisian ...

1805 — Napoleonic Wars: A Franco-Spanish fleet recaptures from the ...

1848 — The Slavic Congress opens in Prague.

1866 — The Fenians defeat Canadian forces at Ridgeway and Fort Erie, ...

1878 — Nobiling assassination attempt by anarchist Karl Nobiling ...

1896 — Guglielmo Marconi applies for a patent for his wireless ...

1909 — Alfred Deakin becomes Prime Minister of Australia for the ...

1910 — Charles Rolls, a co-founder of Rolls-Royce Limited, becomes ...

1919 — Anarchists simultaneously set off bombs in eight separate U.S. ...

1924 — U.S. President Calvin Coolidge signs the Indian Citizenship ...

1941 — World War II: German paratroopers murder Greek civilians in ...

1946 — Birth of the Italian Republic: In a referendum, Italians vote ...

1953 — The coronation of Queen Elizabeth II at Westminster Abbey ...

1955 — The USSR and Yugoslavia sign the Belgrade declaration and thus ...

1958 — Aeronaves de México Flight 111 crashes on approach to ...

1962 — During the FIFA World Cup, police had to intervene multiple ...

1964 — The Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) is formed.

1966 — Surveyor program: Surveyor 1 lands in Oceanus Procellarum on ...

1967 — Protests in West Berlin against the arrival of the Shah of ...

1967 — Luis Monge is executed in Colorado's gas chamber, in the ...

1979 — Pope John Paul II starts his first official visit to his ...

1983 — After an emergency landing because of an in-flight fire, ...

1990 — The Lower Ohio Valley tornado outbreak spawns 66 confirmed ...

1997 — In Denver, Timothy McVeigh is convicted on 15 counts of murder ...

1998 — Space Shuttle Discovery is launched on STS-91, the final ...

2003 — Europe launches its first voyage to another planet, Mars. The ...

2012 — Former Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak is sentenced to life ...

2014 — Telangana officially becomes the 29th state of India, formed ...

2022 — Following a request from Ankara, the United Nations officially ...

2023 — A collision between two passenger trains and a parked freight ...