Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/June 2
This is a list of selected June 2 anniversaries that appear in the "On this day" section of the Main Page. To suggest a new item, in most cases, you can be bold and edit this page. Please read the selected anniversaries guidelines before making your edit. However, if your addition might be controversial or on a day that is or will soon be on the Main Page, please post your suggestion on the talk page instead.
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June 2: Jerusalem Day in Israel (2008); Queen's Official Birthday in New Zealand (2008)
- 455 – Following the death of Western Roman Emperor Valentinian III, the Vandals led by King Gaiseric sacked Rome, looting treasure from the city and taking Empress Licinia Eudoxia and her daughters hostage.
- 1848 – As part of the Pan-Slavism movement, the Prague Slavic Congress began in Prague, one of the few times that voices from all Slav populations of Europe were heard in one place.
- 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.
- 1995 – United States Air Force Captain Scott O'Grady (pictured) was shot down while patrolling the NATO no-fly zone over Bosnia in an F-16.
- 2003 – The Mars Express space probe, the first planetary mission of the European Space Agency, was launched.