June 2
1886 - Grover Cleveland, age 49, became the first U.S. president to be married in the White House, marrying 21-year-old Frances Folsom.
1897 - Mark Twain was quoted by the New York Journal as saying "the report of my death was an exaggeration."
1924 - Congress granted U.S. citizenship to all American Indians.
1946 - In Italy, a plebiscite rejected the monarchy in favor of a republic.
1953 - Queen Elizabeth II was crowned at Westminster Abbey in London, 16 months following the death of her father King George VI.
1962 - Soviet forces opened fire on striking workers in the Russian city of Novocherkassk; a retired general in 1989 put the death toll at 22 to 24.
1966 - U.S. space probe Surveyor 1 landed on the moon and began transmitting detailed photographs of the lunar surface.
1979 - Pope John Paul II arrived in his native Poland on the first visit by a pope to a Communist country.
1981 - The Japanese video arcade game "Donkey Kong" was released by Nintendo.
1997 - Timothy McVeigh was found guilty of the bombing of the federal building in Oklahoma City. (He was executed in June 2001.)
1998 - California voters passed Proposition 227, requiring that all schoolchildren by taught in English.
2003 - The European Space Agency launched the Mars Express probe. Contact with the lander Beagle 2 was lost the following December.
2011 - A judge in Placerville, California, sentenced serial sex offender Phillip Garrido to life in prison for kidnapping and raping Jaycee Dugard; Garrido’s wife, Nancy, received a decades-long sentence.
2012 - Ousted Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak was sentenced to life in prison after a court convicted him on charges of complicity in the killing of protesters during the 2011 uprising that forced him from power (Mubarak was later acquitted and freed in March 2017; he died in February 2020).
2016 - Autopsy results showed superstar musician Prince died of an accidental overdose of fentanyl, a powerful opioid painkiller.
2017 - Three former Penn State administrators were handed jail and house-arrest sentences ranging up to nearly two years for burying child sexual abuse allegations against Jerry Sandusky.
2020 - Defying curfews, protesters streamed back into the nation’s streets, hours after President Donald Trump urged governors to put down the violence set off by the death of George Floyd. Police said four officers were hit by gunfire after protests in St. Louis that began peacefully became violent. The bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Washington sharply criticized Trump for staging a visit to St. John’s Church across from the White House after authorities had cleared the area of peaceful protesters. Mayors and governors from both parties rejected Trump’s threat to use the military against protesters.
2021 - Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s opponents announced that they had reached a deal to form a new governing coalition, paving the way for the ouster of the longtime Israeli leader.
Birthdays
20 - Madison Hu (actress)
22 - Lilimar (actress)
26 - Brittany O'Grady (actress)
27 - Sterling Beaumon (actor)
32 - Brittany Curran (actress)
34 - Awkwafina (rapper/actress)
34 - Amber Marshall (actress)
42 - Abby Wambach (soccer player)
43 - Morena Baccarin (actress)
44 - Deon Richmond (actor)
44 - Justin Long (actor)
44 - Nikki Cox (actress)
44 - Dominic Cooper (actor)
45 - Zachary Quinto (actor)
50 - Wentworth Miller (actor)
50 - Wayne Brady (actor/comedian/TV host)
51 - Anthony Montgomery (actor)
52 - Paula Cale (actress)
54 - Andy Cohen (TV producer/personality)
54 - Merril Bainbridge (singer)
61 - Liam Cunningham (actor)
67 - Gary Grimes (actor)
67 - Dana Carvey (actor/comedian)
68 - Dennis Haysbert (actor)
70 - Gary Bettman (NHL commissioner)
72 - Joanna Gleason (actress)
74 - Jerry Mathers (actor)
79 - Charles Haid (actor)
81 - Stacy Keach (actor)
84 - Ron Ely (actor)
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Today in Sports History - June 2
1935 - Babe Ruth announces his retirement from baseball as a player at age 40.
1941 - Baseball great Lou Gehrig died of Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS) at age 37, a rare type of paralysis now referred to as "Lou Gehrig's Disease."
1942 - Boston Red Sox star Ted Williams enlists into the U.S. Navy.
1958 - Pitcher Whitey Ford of the New York Yankees ties an American League record by striking out six batters in a row.
2010 - Detroit Tigers pitcher Armando Galarraga lost his bid for a perfect game against the Cleveland Indians with two outs in the ninth inning on a call that first base umpire Jim Joyce later admitted he had blown.
2021 - Trainer Bob Baffert was suspended for two years by the Churchill Downs racetrack in Louisville, Kentucky, after an additional drug test of Kentucky Derby winner Medina Spirit confirmed the presence of a steroid. (Medina Spirit was later disqualified from his Derby victory; the colt collapsed and died in December 2021 following a training run at Santa Anita.)
2021 - Longtime Duke men's basketball coach Mike Krzyzewski announced the following season would be his last with the Blue Devils.
1886 - Grover Cleveland, age 49, became the first U.S. president to be married in the White House, marrying 21-year-old Frances Folsom.
1897 - Mark Twain was quoted by the New York Journal as saying "the report of my death was an exaggeration."
1924 - Congress granted U.S. citizenship to all American Indians.
1946 - In Italy, a plebiscite rejected the monarchy in favor of a republic.
1953 - Queen Elizabeth II was crowned at Westminster Abbey in London, 16 months following the death of her father King George VI.
1962 - Soviet forces opened fire on striking workers in the Russian city of Novocherkassk; a retired general in 1989 put the death toll at 22 to 24.
1966 - U.S. space probe Surveyor 1 landed on the moon and began transmitting detailed photographs of the lunar surface.
1979 - Pope John Paul II arrived in his native Poland on the first visit by a pope to a Communist country.
1981 - The Japanese video arcade game "Donkey Kong" was released by Nintendo.
1997 - Timothy McVeigh was found guilty of the bombing of the federal building in Oklahoma City. (He was executed in June 2001.)
1998 - California voters passed Proposition 227, requiring that all schoolchildren by taught in English.
2003 - The European Space Agency launched the Mars Express probe. Contact with the lander Beagle 2 was lost the following December.
2011 - A judge in Placerville, California, sentenced serial sex offender Phillip Garrido to life in prison for kidnapping and raping Jaycee Dugard; Garrido’s wife, Nancy, received a decades-long sentence.
2012 - Ousted Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak was sentenced to life in prison after a court convicted him on charges of complicity in the killing of protesters during the 2011 uprising that forced him from power (Mubarak was later acquitted and freed in March 2017; he died in February 2020).
2016 - Autopsy results showed superstar musician Prince died of an accidental overdose of fentanyl, a powerful opioid painkiller.
2017 - Three former Penn State administrators were handed jail and house-arrest sentences ranging up to nearly two years for burying child sexual abuse allegations against Jerry Sandusky.
2020 - Defying curfews, protesters streamed back into the nation’s streets, hours after President Donald Trump urged governors to put down the violence set off by the death of George Floyd. Police said four officers were hit by gunfire after protests in St. Louis that began peacefully became violent. The bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Washington sharply criticized Trump for staging a visit to St. John’s Church across from the White House after authorities had cleared the area of peaceful protesters. Mayors and governors from both parties rejected Trump’s threat to use the military against protesters.
2021 - Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s opponents announced that they had reached a deal to form a new governing coalition, paving the way for the ouster of the longtime Israeli leader.
Birthdays
20 - Madison Hu (actress)
22 - Lilimar (actress)
26 - Brittany O'Grady (actress)
27 - Sterling Beaumon (actor)
32 - Brittany Curran (actress)
34 - Awkwafina (rapper/actress)
34 - Amber Marshall (actress)
42 - Abby Wambach (soccer player)
43 - Morena Baccarin (actress)
44 - Deon Richmond (actor)
44 - Justin Long (actor)
44 - Nikki Cox (actress)
44 - Dominic Cooper (actor)
45 - Zachary Quinto (actor)
50 - Wentworth Miller (actor)
50 - Wayne Brady (actor/comedian/TV host)
51 - Anthony Montgomery (actor)
52 - Paula Cale (actress)
54 - Andy Cohen (TV producer/personality)
54 - Merril Bainbridge (singer)
61 - Liam Cunningham (actor)
67 - Gary Grimes (actor)
67 - Dana Carvey (actor/comedian)
68 - Dennis Haysbert (actor)
70 - Gary Bettman (NHL commissioner)
72 - Joanna Gleason (actress)
74 - Jerry Mathers (actor)
79 - Charles Haid (actor)
81 - Stacy Keach (actor)
84 - Ron Ely (actor)
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Today in Sports History - June 2
1935 - Babe Ruth announces his retirement from baseball as a player at age 40.
1941 - Baseball great Lou Gehrig died of Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS) at age 37, a rare type of paralysis now referred to as "Lou Gehrig's Disease."
1942 - Boston Red Sox star Ted Williams enlists into the U.S. Navy.
1958 - Pitcher Whitey Ford of the New York Yankees ties an American League record by striking out six batters in a row.
2010 - Detroit Tigers pitcher Armando Galarraga lost his bid for a perfect game against the Cleveland Indians with two outs in the ninth inning on a call that first base umpire Jim Joyce later admitted he had blown.
2021 - Trainer Bob Baffert was suspended for two years by the Churchill Downs racetrack in Louisville, Kentucky, after an additional drug test of Kentucky Derby winner Medina Spirit confirmed the presence of a steroid. (Medina Spirit was later disqualified from his Derby victory; the colt collapsed and died in December 2021 following a training run at Santa Anita.)
2021 - Longtime Duke men's basketball coach Mike Krzyzewski announced the following season would be his last with the Blue Devils.
