June 2
1886
Grover Cleveland became the first U.S. president to get married in the White House.
1924
Congress granted U.S. citizenship to all American Indians.
1941
Baseball great, Lou Gehrig died of Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis, ALS, a rare type of paralysis now referred to as Lou Gehrig’s disease.
1946
In Italy, a plebiscite rejected the monarchy in favor of a republic.
1953
Queen Elizabeth II of Britain was crowned in Westminster Abbey.
1997
Timothy McVeigh was found guilty of the bombing of the federal building in Oklahoma City.
2003
The European Space Agency launched the Mars Express probe. Contact with the lander Beagle 2 was lost in December.
Birthdays
Martha Washington
wife of George Washington (1731)
John Randolph
legislator (1773)
Thomas Hardy
novelist (1840)
Sir Edward William Elgar
composer (1857)
Johnny Weissmuller
swimmer (1904)
Barbara Pym
writer (1913)
Cornel West
scholar (1953)
Freddy Adu
Soccer (1989)