Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/June 2
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- 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.
- 1953 - Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom (pictured) was crowned.
- 1995 - United States Air Force Captain Scott O'Grady's F-16 was shot down over Bosnia while patrolling the NATO no-fly zone.
- 2003 - The Mars Express space probe, the first planetary mission of the European Space Agency, was launched.