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.
Please note that the events listed on the Main Page are chosen based more on relative article quality and to maintain a mix of topics, not based solely on how important or significant their subjects are. Only four to five events are posted at a time and thus not everything that is "most important and significant" can be listed. In addition, an event is generally not posted this year if it is also the subject of the scheduled featured article, featured list or picture of the day.
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Genseric sacking Rome -
Surveyor 1 -
Grover Cleveland and Frances Folsom's wedding -
Charles Rolls -
Scott O'Grady -
Luigi Galleani
Ineligible
| Blurb | Reason |
|---|---|
| 455 – Following the death of Western Roman Emperor Valentinian III, the Vandals led by King Genseric sacked Rome, looting treasure from the city and taking Empress Licinia Eudoxia and her daughters hostage. | Vandals needs more refs, Sack of Rome (455) is stubby |
| 1098 – First Crusade: The first Siege of Antioch ended as Crusader forces captured the city, but the Seljuk Turks would later start a second siege of Antioch a few days later. | needs more footnotes |
| 1763 – Pontiac's War: The local Ojibwe captured Fort Michilimackinac in present-day Mackinaw City, Michigan, after diverting the garrison's attention with a game of stickball, then chasing a ball into the fort. | needs more footnotes |
| 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. | no footnotes |
| 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. | no footnotes |
| 1946 – Italians voted to abolish the monarchy and establish the Italian Republic, exiling King Umberto II. | refimprove |
| 1966 – Surveyor 1 landed on the Moon, becoming the first American spacecraft to soft land on another world. | no footnotes |
| 2003 – The Mars Express space probe, the first planetary mission of the European Space Agency, was launched. | refimprove |
Eligible
- 1886 – Grover Cleveland became the only U.S. President to marry in the White House when he wed Frances Folsom.
- 1967 – German university student Benno Ohnesorg was killed during a protest in West Berlin against the visit of Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, Shah of Iran, sparking the formation of the militant group Movement 2 June.
- 1995 – United States Air Force Captain Scott O'Grady (pictured) was shot down by a Bosnian Serb Army SA-6 surface-to-air missile while patrolling the NATO no-fly zone over Bosnia in an F-16, but he was able to eject safely and was then rescued six days later.
- 2010 – A lone gunman went on a shooting spree in Cumbria, England, killing 12 and injuring 11 others before committing suicide.
June 2: Ascension Thursday (Christianity, 2011)
- 1774 – Intolerable Acts: To restore imperial control over the Thirteen Colonies, the Parliament of Great Britain passed a second Quartering Act, reenacting a law requiring colonists to provide housing for British soldiers.
- 1805 – Napoleonic Wars: A Franco-Spanish fleet recaptured Diamond Rock (pictured), an uninhabited island at the entrance to the bay leading to Fort-de-France, from the British.
- 1910 – Charles Rolls, co-founder of Rolls-Royce Limited, became the first man to make a non-stop double crossing of the English Channel by plane.
- 1919 – First Red Scare: Anarchist followers of Luigi Galleani set off eight bombs in eight cities across the United States.
- 1983 – After an emergency landing because of an in-flight fire, twenty-three passengers aboard Air Canada Flight 797 were killed when a flashover occurred as the plane's doors opened.
- 1999 – Bhutan ended its status as the only country in the world to prohibit television when the state-run Bhutan Broadcasting Service came on the air.