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Warner Bros. Movie World's Grand Entrance

Warner Bros. Movie World is a theme park on the Gold Coast in Queensland, Australia. It is owned and operated by Village Roadshow's Theme Parks division. After an opening ceremony featuring many celebrities on 2 June 1991, the park opened the following day. Many park attractions are based on Warner Bros. and related DC Comics properties, including thrill rides such as Batwing Spaceshot and Superman Escape, family attractions such as Justice League: Alien Invasion 3D and Wild West Falls Adventure Ride, entertainment at the Roxy Theatre and the Hollywood Stunt Driver live show. Film characters regularly roam the grounds to interact and take photos with guests. Each afternoon, characters participate in a parade along Main Street. The seasonal Fright Nights and White Christmas events are hosted annually. The park has survived financial hardships and remains among Australia's most popular tourist destinations. As of 2016, it receives a yearly average of 1.4 million visitors. (Full article...)

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IRIS Kharg

The largest ship in the Iranian Navy, the modified Ol-class tanker IRIS Kharg (pictured), catches fire and sinks in the Gulf of Oman near Jask, Iran.
In association football, the UEFA Champions League concludes with Chelsea defeating Manchester City in the final.
A mass grave containing the remains of 215 children is found at a former Kamloops school, part of the Canadian Indian residential school system.
Bashar al-Assad is re-elected as president of Syria.

On this day

June 2: Festa della Repubblica in Italy (1946)

Coronation portrait of Elizabeth II and Philip, Duke of Edinburgh

1793 – French Revolution: A popular insurrection ended with Parisian sans-culottes led by François Hanriot arresting 22 members of the dominant Girondist faction in the National Convention.
1886 – Grover Cleveland married Frances Folsom, becoming the only U.S. president to wed in the White House.
1924 – The Indian Citizenship Act was signed into law, granting citizenship to all Native Americans born within the territorial limits of the United States.
1953 – Queen Elizabeth II (pictured) was crowned at Westminster Abbey in London.
1983 – After an emergency landing due to an in-flight fire, 23 passengers aboard Air Canada Flight 797 were killed when a flashover occurred as the plane's doors opened.

Rutger von Ascheberg (b. 1621)
Gilbert Baker (b. 1951)
George S. Kaufman (d. 1961)

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Célestine Galli-Marié (1837–1905) was a French mezzo-soprano who is most famous for creating the title role in the opera Carmen by Georges Bizet. It was said that, during the opera's 33rd performance on 2 June 1875, Galli-Marié had a premonition of Bizet's death while singing in the third act, and fainted when she left the stage; the composer in fact died that night and the next performance was cancelled due to her indisposition. This photograph by Nadar depicts Galli-Marié as the titular character in Carmen.

Photograph credit: Nadar; restored by Adam Cuerden

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