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| June 2nd, 2008 (June 02 2008) | Death | Bo Diddley, American musician (born in 1928) | |
| June 2nd, 2008 (June 02 2008) | Death | Mel Ferrer, Cuban-American actor, film director and film producer (born in 1917) | |
| June 2nd, 2007 (June 02 2007) | Death | Huang Ju, Chinese Vice-Premier | |
| June 2nd, 2007 (June 02 2007) | Death | Kentaro Haneda, Japanese composer (born in 1949) | |
| June 2nd, 2006 (June 02 2006) | Death | Keith Smith, English professional rugby player (born in 1952) | |
| June 2nd, 2006 (June 02 2006) | Death | Vince Welnick, musician, keyboardist (The Grateful Dead) (born in 1951) | |
| June 2nd, 2005 (June 02 2005) | Death | Gunder Gundersen, Norwegian Nordic combined skier and sports official (born in 1930) | |
| June 2nd, 2005 (June 02 2005) | Death | Chloe Jones, Model and pornographic actress (born in 1975) | |
| June 2nd, 2005 (June 02 2005) | Death | Samir Kassir, Lebanese journalist and teacher (born in 1950) | |
| June 2nd, 2005 (June 02 2005) | Death | Melita Norwood, British spy (born in 1912) | |
| June 2nd, 2004 (June 02 2004) | Event | Ken Jennings begins his 74-game winning streak on the syndicated game show Jeopardy!. | |
| June 2nd, 2004 (June 02 2004) | Death | Loyd Sigmon, American amateur ("ham") radio broadcaster (born in 1909) | |
| June 2nd, 2003 (June 02 2003) | Event | Europe launches its first voyage to another planet, Mars. The European Space Agency s Mars Express probe launches from the Baikonur space centre in Kazakhstan. | |
| June 2nd, 2003 (June 02 2003) | Death | Fred Blassie, American professional wrestler (born in 1918) | |
| June 2nd, 2001 (June 02 2001) | Death | Imogene Coca, American actress (born in 1908) | |
| June 2nd, 2001 (June 02 2001) | Death | Frank Stagg, Baptist Theologian (born in 1911) | |
| June 2nd, 2001 (June 02 2001) | Death | Joey Maxim, American boxer (born in 1922) | |
| June 2nd, 2000 (June 02 2000) | Death | Svyatoslav Fyodorov, Russian ophthalmologist (born in 1927) | |
| June 2nd, 2000 (June 02 2000) | Death | Gerald Whitrow, British mathematician (born in 1912) | |
| June 2nd, 1999 (June 02 1999) | Event | The Bhutan Broadcasting Service brings television transmissions to the Kingdom for the first time. | |
| June 2nd, 1999 (June 02 1999) | Death | Junior Braithwaite, Jamaican musician (The Wailers) (born in 1949) | |
| June 2nd, 1998 (June 02 1998) | Event | The CIH computer virus is discovered in Taiwan. | |
| June 2nd, 1998 (June 02 1998) | Death | Sylvester Ritter, American professional wrestler (born in 1952) | |
| June 2nd, 1997 (June 02 1997) | Event | In Denver, Colorado, Timothy McVeigh is convicted on 15 counts of murder and conspiracy for his role in the 1995 terrorist bombing of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. | |
| June 2nd, 1997 (June 02 1997) | Death | Doc Cheatham, American jazz trumpeter (born in 1905) | |
| June 2nd, 1996 (June 02 1996) | Death | John Alton, American cinematographer (born in 1901) | |
| June 2nd, 1996 (June 02 1996) | Death | Ray Combs, American game show host and comedian (born in 1956) | |
| June 2nd, 1996 (June 02 1996) | Death | Leon Garfield, English children s author (born in 1921) | |
| June 2nd, 1996 (June 02 1996) | Death | Amos Tversky, Israeli psychologist (born in 1937) | |
| June 2nd, 1995 (June 02 1995) | Event | United States Air Force Captain Scott O Grady s F-16 is shot down over Bosnia while patrolling the NATO no-fly zone. | |
| June 2nd, 1993 (June 02 1993) | Death | Johnny Mize, American baseball player (born in 1913) | |
| June 2nd, 1992 (June 02 1992) | Event | Denmark rejects the Maastricht Treaty by a thin margin in a national referendum. | |
| June 2nd, 1992 (June 02 1992) | Death | Phillip Dunne, American film director (born in 1908) | |
| June 2nd, 1990 (June 02 1990) | Event | The Lower Ohio Valley tornado outbreak spawns 66 confirmed tornados in Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, and Ohio, killing 12. Petersburg, Indiana is the hardest-hit town in the outbreak, with 6 deaths. | |
| June 2nd, 1990 (June 02 1990) | Birth | Brittany Curran, American actress | |
| June 2nd, 1990 (June 02 1990) | Death | Stiv Bators, American singer (The Dead Boys, The Lords of the New Church) (born in 1949) | |
| June 2nd, 1990 (June 02 1990) | Death | Jack Gilford, American actor (born in 1908) | |
| June 2nd, 1990 (June 02 1990) | Death | Rex Harrison, English actor (born in 1908) | |
| June 2nd, 1989 (June 02 1989) | Birth | Freddy Adu, Ghanaian-American footballer | |
| June 2nd, 1989 (June 02 1989) | Death | Ted a Beckett, Australian cricketer (born in 1907) | |
| June 2nd, 1988 (June 02 1988) | Birth | Sergio Aguero, Argentinian footballer | |
| June 2nd, 1988 (June 02 1988) | Birth | Patrik Berglund, Swedish hockey player | |
| June 2nd, 1987 (June 02 1987) | Birth | Darin Zanyar, Swedish Singer | |
| June 2nd, 1987 (June 02 1987) | Death | Sammy Kaye, American bandleader (born in 1910) | |
| June 2nd, 1987 (June 02 1987) | Death | Andres Segovia, Spanish guitarist (born in 1893) | |
| June 2nd, 1986 (June 02 1986) | Death | Aurel Joliat, Canadian hockey player (born in 1901) | |
| June 2nd, 1984 (June 02 1984) | Event | Operation Bluestar, a military offensive, is launched by the Indian government at Harmandir Sahib, also known as Golden Temple, the holiest shrine for the Sikhs, in Amritsar. The operation continues until June 6 with causalities, most of them civilians, in excess of 5,000. | |
| June 2nd, 1984 (June 02 1984) | Death | Georgios Kasassoglou, Greek musician (born in 1908) | |
| June 2nd, 1983 (June 02 1983) | Birth | Christopher Higgins, American ice hockey player | |
| June 2nd, 1983 (June 02 1983) | Birth | Brooke White, American singer | |
| June 2nd, 1983 (June 02 1983) | Death | Stan Rogers, Canadian musician (born in 1949) | |
| June 2nd, 1982 (June 02 1982) | Birth | Jewel Staite, Canadian actress | |
| June 2nd, 1982 (June 02 1982) | Death | Fazal Ilahi Chaudhry, Pakistani politician (born in 1904) | |
| June 2nd, 1981 (June 02 1981) | Birth | Nikolay Davydenko, Russian professional tennis player | |
| June 2nd, 1981 (June 02 1981) | Birth | Tucker Rountree, American guitarist and composer. | |
| June 2nd, 1981 (June 02 1981) | Birth | Chin-hui Tsao, Taiwanese baseball player | |
| June 2nd, 1980 (June 02 1980) | Birth | Fabrizio Moretti, Brazilian-born rock drummer (The Strokes) | |
| June 2nd, 1979 (June 02 1979) | Event | Pope John Paul II visits his native Poland, becoming the first Pope to visit a Communist country. | |
| June 2nd, 1979 (June 02 1979) | Death | Jim Hutton, American actor (born in 1934) | |
| June 2nd, 1978 (June 02 1978) | Birth | Dominic Cooper, English actor | |
| June 2nd, 1978 (June 02 1978) | Birth | Nikki Cox, American actress | |
| June 2nd, 1978 (June 02 1978) | Birth | Justin Long, American actor | |
| June 2nd, 1978 (June 02 1978) | Birth | A.J. Styles, American professional wrestler | |
| June 2nd, 1977 (June 02 1977) | Birth | Zachary Quinto, American actor | |
| June 2nd, 1977 (June 02 1977) | Death | Stephen Boyd, Northern Irish actor (born in 1931) | |
| June 2nd, 1976 (June 02 1976) | Birth | Earl Boykins, American basketball player | |
| June 2nd, 1976 (June 02 1976) | Birth | Tim Rice-Oxley, English musician (Keane) | |
| June 2nd, 1976 (June 02 1976) | Birth | Martin Cech, International ice hockey player (died in 2007) | |
| June 2nd, 1976 (June 02 1976) | Birth | Antonio Rodrigo Nogueira, Brazilian mixed martial artist | Martial Quotes |
| June 2nd, 1976 (June 02 1976) | Birth | Queen Masenate Mohato Seeiso, Queen consort of Lesotho | |
| June 2nd, 1976 (June 02 1976) | Death | Juan Jose Torres, former President of Bolivia, assassinated in the frame of Operation Condor | |
| June 2nd, 1975 (June 02 1975) | Event | French sex workers occupied a Lyon church in protest against excessive fines and taxes, as well as a lack of police action against violence, thereby sparking the birth of the modern sex worker rights movement. | |
| June 2nd, 1974 (June 02 1974) | Birth | Matt Serra, American mixed martial artist | Martial Quotes |
| June 2nd, 1974 (June 02 1974) | Birth | Gata Kamsky, American chess player | |
| June 2nd, 1974 (June 02 1974) | Death | Hiroshi Kazato, Japanese racing driver (born in 1949) | |
| June 2nd, 1973 (June 02 1973) | Birth | Neifi Perez, Dominican baseball player | |
| June 2nd, 1972 (June 02 1972) | Birth | Wayne Brady, American actor and comedian | |
| June 2nd, 1972 (June 02 1972) | Birth | Wentworth Miller, American actor | |
| June 2nd, 1972 (June 02 1972) | Birth | Simon Staho, Danish film director | |
| June 2nd, 1971 (June 02 1971) | Birth | Anthony Montgomery, American actor | |
| June 2nd, 1971 (June 02 1971) | Birth | Katerina Jacques, Czech politician | |
| June 2nd, 1970 (June 02 1970) | Birth | Andy McCollum, American football player | |
| June 2nd, 1970 (June 02 1970) | Birth | B-Real, American rapper (Cypress Hill) | |
| June 2nd, 1970 (June 02 1970) | Death | Bruce McLaren, New Zealand car racer, designer, and founder of eponymous race team (born in 1937) | |
| June 2nd, 1970 (June 02 1970) | Death | Giuseppe Ungaretti, Italian poet (born in 1888) | |
| June 2nd, 1970 (June 02 1970) | Death | Albert Lamorisse, French film director and screenwriter (born in 1922) | |
| June 2nd, 1969 (June 02 1969) | Birth | Cy Chadwick, English actor | |
| June 2nd, 1969 (June 02 1969) | Death | Leo Gorcey, American actor (born in 1917) | |
| June 2nd, 1968 (June 02 1968) | Birth | Beetlejuice, member of Howard Stern s Wack Pack | |
| June 2nd, 1968 (June 02 1968) | Birth | Jon Culshaw, British comedian | |
| June 2nd, 1968 (June 02 1968) | Death | Andre Mathieu, Quebec pianist and composer (born in 1929) | |
| June 2nd, 1967 (June 02 1967) | Event | Protests in West Berlin against the arrival of the Shah of Iran turn into riots, during which Benno Ohnesorg is killed by a police officer. His death results in the founding of the terrorist group Movement 2 June. | |
| June 2nd, 1967 (June 02 1967) | Birth | Mike Stanton, baseball player | |
| June 2nd, 1967 (June 02 1967) | Death | Benno Ohnesorg, German student (born in 1940) | |
| June 2nd, 1966 (June 02 1966) | Event | Surveyor program: The Surveyor 1 lands in Oceanus Procellarum on the Moon, becoming the first U.S. spacecraft to soft land on another world. | |
| June 2nd, 1966 (June 02 1966) | Birth | Pedro Guerra, Spanish songwriter and singer | |
| June 2nd, 1965 (June 02 1965) | Event | Vietnam War: The first contingent of Australian combat troops arrive in South Vietnam. | |
| June 2nd, 1965 (June 02 1965) | Birth | Jim Knipfel, American autobiographer and journalist | |
| June 2nd, 1965 (June 02 1965) | Birth | Mark and Steve Waugh, Australian cricketers | |
| June 2nd, 1964 (June 02 1964) | Birth | Caroline Link, German film director and screenwriter | |
| June 2nd, 1962 (June 02 1962) | Death | Vita Sackville-West, English writer, and gardener (born in 1892) | |
| June 2nd, 1961 (June 02 1961) | Birth | Dez Cadena, American musician (Black Flag) | |
| June 2nd, 1961 (June 02 1961) | Death | George S. Kaufman, American playwright (born in 1889) | |
| June 2nd, 1960 (June 02 1960) | Birth | Kyle Petty, American race car driver | |
| June 2nd, 1960 (June 02 1960) | Birth | Tony Hadley, English singer (Spandau Ballet) | |
| June 2nd, 1959 (June 02 1959) | Birth | Lydia Lunch, American singer | |
| June 2nd, 1958 (June 02 1958) | Birth | Lawrence Pfohl, American professional wrestler | |
| June 2nd, 1957 (June 02 1957) | Birth | King Lizzard, American entertainer | |
| June 2nd, 1957 (June 02 1957) | Birth | Mark Lawrenson, English Football Pundit | |
| June 2nd, 1956 (June 02 1956) | Birth | Mani Ratnam, Indian director | |
| June 2nd, 1956 (June 02 1956) | Birth | Malcolm Garrett, English graphic designer | |
| June 2nd, 1956 (June 02 1956) | Death | Jean Hersholt, Danish actor and humanitarian (born in 1886) | |
| June 2nd, 1955 (June 02 1955) | Event | The USSR and Yugoslavia sign the Belgrade declaration and thus normalize relations between both countries, discontinued since 1948. | |
| June 2nd, 1955 (June 02 1955) | Birth | Dana Carvey, American actor and comedian | |
| June 2nd, 1955 (June 02 1955) | Birth | Michael Steele, American musician (The Bangles) | |
| June 2nd, 1955 (June 02 1955) | Birth | Chantal Hochuli, Swiss-born socialite | |
| June 2nd, 1954 (June 02 1954) | Birth | Dennis Haysbert, American actor | |
| June 2nd, 1953 (June 02 1953) | Event | The coronation of Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom, the first to be televised. | |
| June 2nd, 1953 (June 02 1953) | Birth | Keith Allen, Welsh comedian, actor, singer and writer | |
| June 2nd, 1953 (June 02 1953) | Birth | Craig Stadler, American golfer | |
| June 2nd, 1952 (June 02 1952) | Birth | Gary Bettman, American National Hockey League commissioner | |
| June 2nd, 1951 (June 02 1951) | Birth | Larry Robinson, Canadian hockey player | |
| June 2nd, 1949 (June 02 1949) | Birth | Heather Couper, British astronomer | |
| June 2nd, 1949 (June 02 1949) | Birth | Frank Rich, American theater critic and columnist | |
| June 2nd, 1948 (June 02 1948) | Birth | Jerry Mathers, American actor | |
| June 2nd, 1948 (June 02 1948) | Death | Viktor Brack, Nazi physician (born in 1904) | Viktor Brack Quotes |
| June 2nd, 1948 (June 02 1948) | Death | Karl Brandt, personal physician of Adolf Hitler (born in 1904) | Karl Brandt Quotes |
| June 2nd, 1948 (June 02 1948) | Death | Karl Gebhardt, Nazi doctor (born in 1897) | |
| June 2nd, 1948 (June 02 1948) | Death | Waldemar Hoven, German physician (born in 1903) | |
| June 2nd, 1948 (June 02 1948) | Death | Wolfram Sievers, Nazi physician (born in 1905) | |
| June 2nd, 1947 (June 02 1947) | Birth | Mark Elder, British opera and symphony conductor | |
| June 2nd, 1946 (June 02 1946) | Event | Birth of the Italian Republic: In a referendum, Italians decide to turn Italy from a monarchy into a Republic. After this referendum the king of Italy Umberto II di Savoia is exiled. | |
| June 2nd, 1946 (June 02 1946) | Birth | Peter Sutcliffe, English murderer | |
| June 2nd, 1946 (June 02 1946) | Birth | Lasse Hallstrom, Swedish film director | |
| June 2nd, 1945 (June 02 1945) | Birth | Jon Peters, American film producer and hairdresser | |
| June 2nd, 1944 (June 02 1944) | Birth | Marvin Hamlisch, American composer and musician | |
| June 2nd, 1943 (June 02 1943) | Birth | Charles Haid, American actor | |
| June 2nd, 1943 (June 02 1943) | Birth | Ilaiyaraaja, Indian composer | |
| June 2nd, 1941 (June 02 1941) | Birth | Stacy Keach, American actor | |
| June 2nd, 1941 (June 02 1941) | Birth | Charlie Watts, English musician (The Rolling Stones) | |
| June 2nd, 1941 (June 02 1941) | Birth | William Guest, American singer (Gladys Knight & the Pips) | |
| June 2nd, 1941 (June 02 1941) | Death | Lou Gehrig, American baseball player (born in 1903) | |
| June 2nd, 1940 (June 02 1940) | Birth | King Constantine II of Greece | |
| June 2nd, 1938 (June 02 1938) | Birth | Kevin Brownlow, English film historian and author | |
| June 2nd, 1937 (June 02 1937) | Birth | Jimmy Jones (singer), American singer and songwriter | Jim Jones Quotes |
| June 2nd, 1937 (June 02 1937) | Death | Louis Vierne, French organist and composer (born in 1870) | |
| June 2nd, 1936 (June 02 1936) | Birth | Sally Kellerman, American actress | |
| June 2nd, 1935 (June 02 1935) | Birth | Carol Shields, American-born novelist (died in 2003) | |
| June 2nd, 1935 (June 02 1935) | Birth | Roger Brierley, English actor (died in 2005) | |
| June 2nd, 1935 (June 02 1935) | Birth | Dimitri Kitsikis, Greek turkologist | |
| June 2nd, 1933 (June 02 1933) | Death | Frank Jarvis, American athlete (born in 1878) | |
| June 2nd, 1932 (June 02 1932) | Birth | Sammy Turner, American singer | |
| June 2nd, 1931 (June 02 1931) | Birth | Larry Jackson, baseball player (died in 1990) | |
| June 2nd, 1931 (June 02 1931) | Birth | William Donaldson, American businessman and politician | |
| June 2nd, 1930 (June 02 1930) | Birth | Pete Conrad, American astronaut (died in 1999) | |
| June 2nd, 1930 (June 02 1930) | Birth | Bob Lillis, baseball player | |
| June 2nd, 1929 (June 02 1929) | Birth | Norton Juster, American author and architect | |
| June 2nd, 1929 (June 02 1929) | Birth | Ken McGregor, Australian tennis player | |
| June 2nd, 1927 (June 02 1927) | Birth | W. Watts Biggers, American novelist and animator | |
| June 2nd, 1926 (June 02 1926) | Birth | Milo O Shea, Irish actor | |
| June 2nd, 1925 (June 02 1925) | Event | Because of a lineup shakeup by Miller Huggins, Wally Pipp is replaced by Lou Gehrig at first base for the New York Yankees, beginning a streak of 2,130 consecutive games played, topped only by Cal Ripken, Jr. in 1995. Exactly 16 years to the day, in 1941, Gehrig passes away from Amyotropic lateral sclerosis (ALS). | |
| June 2nd, 1924 (June 02 1924) | Event | U.S. President Calvin Coolidge signs the Indian Citizenship Act into law, granting citizenship to all Native Americans born within the territorial limits of the United States. | Calvin Coolidge Quotes |
| June 2nd, 1924 (June 02 1924) | Birth | June Callwood, Canadian jounalist and activist (died in 2007) | |
| June 2nd, 1922 (June 02 1922) | Birth | Charlie Sifford, American golfer | |
| June 2nd, 1922 (June 02 1922) | Birth | Juan Antonio Bardem, Spanish director and screenwriter (died in 2002) | |
| June 2nd, 1920 (June 02 1920) | Birth | Marcel Reich-Ranicki, Polish-born critic | |
| June 2nd, 1920 (June 02 1920) | Birth | Tex Schramm, American football team president and general manager (died in 2003) | |
| June 2nd, 1920 (June 02 1920) | Birth | Frank G. Clement, Governor of Tennessee (died in 1969) | |
| June 2nd, 1919 (June 02 1919) | Birth | Nat Mayer Shapiro, American painter (died in 2005) | |
| June 2nd, 1918 (June 02 1918) | Birth | Ruth Atkinson, American cartoonist (died in 1997) | |
| June 2nd, 1917 (June 02 1917) | Birth | Heinz Sielmann, German photographer and filmmaker (died in 2006) | |
| June 2nd, 1915 (June 02 1915) | Birth | Walter Tetley, American voice actor (died in 1975) | |
| June 2nd, 1915 (June 02 1915) | Birth | Alexandru Nicolschi, Russian communist (died in 1992) | |
| June 2nd, 1913 (June 02 1913) | Birth | Walter Andreas Schwarz, German singer and author (died in 1992) | |
| June 2nd, 1913 (June 02 1913) | Birth | Barbara Pym, English novelist (died in 1980) | |
| June 2nd, 1909 (June 02 1909) | Event | Alfred Deakin becomes Prime Minister of Australia for the third time. | |
| June 2nd, 1907 (June 02 1907) | Birth | Dorothy West, American writer (died in 1998) | |
| June 2nd, 1904 (June 02 1904) | Birth | Frank Runacres, English artist (died in 1974) | |
| June 2nd, 1904 (June 02 1904) | Birth | Johnny Weissmuller, American swimmer and actor (died in 1984) | |
| June 2nd, 1901 (June 02 1901) | Death | George Leslie Mackay, Canadian missionary (born in 1844) | |
| June 2nd, 1899 (June 02 1899) | Birth | Lotte Reiniger, German film director (died in 1981) | |
| June 2nd, 1896 (June 02 1896) | Event | Guglielmo Marconi receives a patent for his newest invention: the radio. | Guglielmo Marconi Quotes |
| June 2nd, 1891 (June 02 1891) | Birth | Thurman Arnold, American attorney and jurist (died in 1969) | |
| June 2nd, 1887 (June 02 1887) | Birth | Howard Johnson, American songwriter (died in 1941) | |
| June 2nd, 1886 (June 02 1886) | Event | U.S. President Grover Cleveland marries Frances Folsom in the White House, becoming the only president to wed in the executive mansion. | Grover Cleveland Quotes |
| June 2nd, 1882 (June 02 1882) | Death | Giuseppe Garibaldi, Italian revolutionarist (born in 1807) | |
| June 2nd, 1881 (June 02 1881) | Death | Emile Littre, French lexicographer (born in 1801) | |
| June 2nd, 1876 (June 02 1876) | Event | Hristo Botev, a national revolutionary of Bulgaria, is killed in Stara Planina | |
| June 2nd, 1876 (June 02 1876) | Death | Hristo Botev, Bulgarian revolutionary (born in 1848) | |
| June 2nd, 1875 (June 02 1875) | Death | Jozef Kremer, Polish messianistic philosopher (born in 1806) | Philo Quotes |
| June 2nd, 1869 (June 02 1869) | Birth | Jack O Connor, baseball player (died in 1937) | |
| June 2nd, 1865 (June 02 1865) | Birth | George Lohmann, English cricketer (died in 1901) | |
| June 2nd, 1865 (June 02 1865) | Death | Ner Alexander Middleswarth, American politician (born in 1783) | |
| June 2nd, 1863 (June 02 1863) | Birth | Felix Weingartner, Yugoslavian conductor (died in 1942) | |
| June 2nd, 1857 (June 02 1857) | Birth | Edward Elgar, English composer (died in 1934) | Edward Elgar Quotes |
| June 2nd, 1857 (June 02 1857) | Birth | Karl Adolph Gjellerup, Danish writer, Nobel Prize laureate (died in 1919) | |
| June 2nd, 1855 (June 02 1855) | Event | The Portland Rum Riot occurs in Portland, Maine. | |
| June 2nd, 1848 (June 02 1848) | Event | The Slavic congress in Prague begins. | |
| June 2nd, 1840 (June 02 1840) | Birth | Thomas Hardy, English writer (died in 1928) | Thomas Hardy Quotes |
| June 2nd, 1838 (June 02 1838) | Birth | Grand Duchess Alexandra Petrovna (died in 1900) | |
| June 2nd, 1835 (June 02 1835) | Event | P. T. Barnum and his circus start their first tour of the United States. | |
| June 2nd, 1835 (June 02 1835) | Birth | Pope Pius X (died in 1914) | |
| June 2nd, 1833 (June 02 1833) | Death | Simon Byrne, Irish bare-knuckle prize fighter (born in 1806) | |
| June 2nd, 1823 (June 02 1823) | Birth | Gedeon Ouimet, French Canadian politician (died in 1905) | |
| June 2nd, 1800 (June 02 1800) | Event | The first smallpox vaccination in North America, at Trinity, Newfoundland. | |
| June 2nd, 1793 (June 02 1793) | Event | Jean-Paul Marat recites the names of 29 people to the French National Convention. Almost all of these people are guillotined, followed by 17,000 more over the course of the next year during the Reign of Terror. | Jean-Paul Marat Quotes |
| June 2nd, 1785 (June 02 1785) | Death | Jean Paul de Gua de Malves, French mathematician (born in 1713) | |
| June 2nd, 1780 (June 02 1780) | Event | The Derby horse race is held for the first time. | |
| June 2nd, 1774 (June 02 1774) | Event | Intolerable Acts: The Quartering Act is enacted, allowing a governor in colonial America to house British soldiers in uninhabited houses, outhouses, barns, or other buildings if suitable quarters were not provided. | Ovid Quotes |
| June 2nd, 1774 (June 02 1774) | Birth | William Lawson, explorer of New South Wales, Australia (died in 1850) | |
| June 2nd, 1773 (June 02 1773) | Birth | John Randolph, U.S. Senator from Virginia (died in 1833) | |
| June 2nd, 1763 (June 02 1763) | Event | Pontiac s Rebellion: At what is now Mackinaw City, Michigan, Chippewas capture Fort Michilimackinac by diverting the garrison s attention with a game of lacrosse, then chasing a ball into the fort. | |
| June 2nd, 1761 (June 02 1761) | Death | Jonas Alstromer, Swedish industrialist (born in 1685) | |
| June 2nd, 1754 (June 02 1754) | Death | Ebenezer Erskine, Scottish religious dissenter (born in 1680) | |
| June 2nd, 1743 (June 02 1743) | Birth | Count Alessandro di Cagliostro, Sicilian Occultist (died in 1795) | |
| June 2nd, 1740 (June 02 1740) | Birth | Marquis de Sade, French author (died in 1814) | |
| June 2nd, 1731 (June 02 1731) | Birth | Martha Washington, First American first lady (died in 1802) | Martha Washington Quotes |
| June 2nd, 1716 (June 02 1716) | Death | Ogata Korin, Japanese painter | |
| June 2nd, 1701 (June 02 1701) | Death | Madeleine de Scudery, French writer (born in 1607) | |
| June 2nd, 1693 (June 02 1693) | Death | John Wildman, English soldier and politician | |
| June 2nd, 1692 (June 02 1692) | Event | Bridget Bishop is the first person to go to trial in the Salem witch trials in Salem, Massachusetts, is found guilty, and would go on to be hanged on June 10. | |
| June 2nd, 1615 (June 02 1615) | Event | First Recollet missionaries arrive at Quebec City, from Rouen, France. | |
| June 2nd, 1581 (June 02 1581) | Death | James Douglas, 4th Earl of Morton, regent of Scotland | |
| June 2nd, 1567 (June 02 1567) | Death | Shane O Neill, Irish chieftain | |
| June 2nd, 1535 (June 02 1535) | Birth | Pope Leo XI (died in 1605) | |
| June 2nd, 1418 (June 02 1418) | Death | Katherine of Lancaster, wife of Henry III of Castile | |
| June 2nd, 1098 (June 02 1098) | Event | First Crusade: The first Siege of Antioch ends as Crusader forces take the city. The second siege would later start on June 7. | |
| June 2nd, 0926 (June 02 0926) | Birth | Murakami, Emperor of Japan (died in 967) | |
| June 2nd, 0910 (June 02 0910) | Death | Richilde of Provence, Queen of Western Francia | |
| June 2nd, 0829 (June 02 0829) | Death | Saint Nicephorus, Patriarch of Constantinople (born in 758) | |
| June 2nd, 0455 (June 02 0455) | Event | The Vandals enter Rome, and plunder the city for two weeks. | |
