On This Day
2nd June
455 – The Vandals entered Rome, and plundered the city for two weeks.
1692 – Bridget Bishop was the first person to go to trial in the Salem witch trials in Salem, Massachusetts.
1793 – Jean-Paul Marat recited the names of 29 people to the French National Convention. Almost all of these people were guillotined, followed by 17,000 more over the course of the next year during the Reign of Terror.
1924 – U.S. President Calvin Coolidge signed the Indian Citizenship Act into law, granting citizenship to all Native Americans born within the territorial limits of the United States.
1946 – Italians voted to turn Italy from a monarchy into a Republic. After the referendum the king of Italy Umberto II di Savoia was exiled.
1953 - Queen Elizabeth II was crowned.
1966 - The United States landed a spacecraft on the Moon on its first try (four months behind the Soviet Union).
1985 - English clubs were banned from playing in Europe indefinitely, after the riot at Brussels' Heysel stadium in which 39 people died.
1994 - Twenty of Britain's top intelligence experts were killed when an RAF helicopter crashed on the Mull of Kintyre.
2003 – Europe launched its first voyage to another planet, Mars. The European Space Agency's Mars Express probe launched from the Baikonur space centre in Kazakhstan.
2005 – Samir Kassir, Lebanese journalist and teacher was murdered.
455 – The Vandals entered Rome, and plundered the city for two weeks.
1692 – Bridget Bishop was the first person to go to trial in the Salem witch trials in Salem, Massachusetts.
1793 – Jean-Paul Marat recited the names of 29 people to the French National Convention. Almost all of these people were guillotined, followed by 17,000 more over the course of the next year during the Reign of Terror.
1924 – U.S. President Calvin Coolidge signed the Indian Citizenship Act into law, granting citizenship to all Native Americans born within the territorial limits of the United States.
1946 – Italians voted to turn Italy from a monarchy into a Republic. After the referendum the king of Italy Umberto II di Savoia was exiled.
1953 - Queen Elizabeth II was crowned.
1966 - The United States landed a spacecraft on the Moon on its first try (four months behind the Soviet Union).
1985 - English clubs were banned from playing in Europe indefinitely, after the riot at Brussels' Heysel stadium in which 39 people died.
1994 - Twenty of Britain's top intelligence experts were killed when an RAF helicopter crashed on the Mull of Kintyre.
2003 – Europe launched its first voyage to another planet, Mars. The European Space Agency's Mars Express probe launched from the Baikonur space centre in Kazakhstan.
2005 – Samir Kassir, Lebanese journalist and teacher was murdered.
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