Récollet missionaries arrived in Québec City for the first time. Pontiac's Rebellion, and the act allowing British troops to be quartered in private people's homes came on this date. It was also on this day in history that Robespierre began the process of purging enemies of the revolutionary state in what has come to be known as "The Reign of Terror". The Snyder Act finally extended citizenship rights to Native Americans. Nationalist leader Chiang Kai-Shek of China managed to take over Beijing. Babe Ruth retired from baseball. The German assault n Sebastopol during World War II began on this date. In post-war Italy, monarchy was rejected in favor of a republic. Queen Elisabeth II was crowned. In Vietnam, an Australian aircraft carrier sliced an American vessel in half. Pope John Paul II was the first pope to visit a Communist country - his native Poland. Protesters in Beijing, China, continued to gain strong momentum. Timothy McVeigh was officially found guilty of the Oklahoma City bombing. All of that and, obviously, much, much more:
http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history
Jun 2, 1865: American Civil War ends
In an event that is generally regarded as marking the end of the Civil War, Confederate General Edmund Kirby Smith, commander of Confederate forces west of the Mississippi, signs the surrender terms offered by Union negotiators. With Smith's surrender, the last Confederate army ceased to exist, bringing a formal end to the bloodiest four years in U.S. history.
The American Civil War began on April 12, 1861, when Confederate shore batteries under General Pierre G.T. Beauregard opened fire on Union-held Fort Sumter in South Carolina's Charleston Bay. During 34 hours, 50 Confederate guns and mortars launched more than 4,000 rounds at the poorly supplied fort, and on April 13 U.S. Major Robert Anderson, commander of the Union garrison, surrendered. Two days later, U.S. President Abraham Lincoln issued a proclamation calling for 75,000 volunteer soldiers to help quell the Southern "insurrection." Four long years later, the Confederacy was defeated at the total cost of 620,000 Union and Confederate dead.
Jun 2, 1924: The Indian Citizenship Act
With Congress' passage of the Indian Citizenship Act, the government of the United States confers citizenship on all Native Americans born within the territorial limits of the country.
Before the Civil War, citizenship was often limited to Native Americans of one-half or less Indian blood. In the Reconstruction period, progressive Republicans in Congress sought to accelerate the granting of citizenship to friendly tribes, though state support for these measures was often limited. In 1888, most Native American women married to U.S. citizens were conferred with citizenship, and in 1919 Native American veterans of World War I were offered citizenship. In 1924, the Indian Citizenship Act, an all-inclusive act, was passed by Congress. The privileges of citizenship, however, were largely governed by state law, and the right to vote was often denied to Native Americans in the early 20th century.
Jun 2, 1935: Babe Ruth retires
On this day in 1935, Babe Ruth, one of the greatest players in the history of baseball, ends his Major League playing career after 22 seasons, 10 World Series and 714 home runs. The following year, Ruth, a larger-than-life figure whose name became synonymous with baseball, was one of the first five players inducted into the sport's hall of fame.
George Herman Ruth was born February 6, 1895, into a poor family in Baltimore. As a child, he was sent to St. Mary's Industrial School for Boys, a school run by Roman Catholic brothers, where he learned to play baseball and was a standout athlete. At 19, Ruth was signed by the Baltimore Orioles, then a Boston Red Sox minor league team. Ruth's fellow teammates and the media began referring to him as team owner Jack Dunn's newest "babe," a nickname that stuck. Ruth would later acquire other nicknames, including "The Sultan of Swat" and "The Bambino."
Ruth made his Major League debut as a left-handed pitcher with the Red Sox in July 1914 and pitched 89 winning games for the team before 1920, when he was traded to the New York Yankees. After Ruth left Boston, in what became known as "the curse of the Bambino," the Red Sox didn't win another World Series until 2004. In New York, Ruth's primary position changed to outfielder and he led the Yankees to seven American League pennants and four World Series victories. Ruth was a huge star in New York and attracted so many fans that the team was able to open a new stadium in 1923, Yankee Stadium, dubbed "The House That Ruth Built."
The southpaw slugger's final season, in 1935, was with the Boston Braves. He had joined the Braves with the hope that he'd become the team's manager the next season. However, this dream never came to pass for a disappointed Ruth, who had a reputation for excessive drinking, gambling and womanizing.
Many of the records Ruth set remained in place for decades. His career homerun record stood until 1974, when it was broken by Hank Aaron. Ruth's record of 60 homeruns in a single season (1927) of 154 games wasn't bested until 1961, when Roger Maris knocked out 61 homers in an extended season of 162 games. The Sultan of Swat's career slugging percentage of .690 remains the highest in Major League history.
Ruth died of throat cancer at age 53 on August 16, 1948, in New York City. His body lay in state at Yankee Stadium for two days and was visited by over 100,000 fans.
Jun 2, 1989: Dead Poets Society released in selected theaters
On this day in 1989, the boys’ prep school drama Dead Poets Society, starring Robin Williams, is released in selected U.S. theaters.
Set in 1959 at a fictional all-male preparatory school called Welton Academy, the film starred Robin Williams as John Keating, a charismatic English teacher who encourages his students to “seize the day” (“carpe diem” in Latin) and embrace the passion for life expressed by great poets like Walt Whitman. With Keating’s guidance, several students (including characters played by Robert Sean Leonard, Ethan Hawke and Josh Charles) revive an underground campus organization known as the Dead Poets Society. When their rebellious behavior gets the boys in trouble with school and family authority figures (with tragic consequences in one case), Keating is taken to task for his influence on them. Directed by Peter Weir from a screenplay by Tom Schulman, Dead Poets Society featured a soaring score by the multiple Oscar-winning composer Maurice Jarre (Lawrence of Arabia, Doctor Zhivago, A Passage to India).
Though Dead Poets Society was generally well received, some negative reviews stood out: Roger Ebert of the Chicago Sun-Times called the film “a collection of pious platitudes masquerading as a courageous stand in favor of something” and said that during the film’s final scene “I was so moved, I wanted to throw up.” Best known for his zany, manic style of comedy, Williams turned in a relatively understated performance that garnered some of the best reviews of his career. He was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Actor, one of four nominations the film would receive, including Best Director and Best Picture. It won in one category, for Best Original Screenplay.
After winning over fans as the alien Mork from Ork on the hit television comedy Mork and Mindy (1978-1982), Williams had a successful career in stand-up comedy before making his big-screen breakout in Good Morning Vietnam (1987), for which he earned his first Best Actor Oscar nomination. After Dead Poets Society, Williams received two more Academy Award nominations: Best Actor for The Fisher King (1991) and Best Supporting Actor for Good Will Hunting (1997); he won for the latter film. He also scored comedic hits such as Mrs. Doubtfire (1993) and The Birdcage (1996).
Here's a more detailed look at events that transpired on this date throughout history:
455 - A D Gaiseric & the Vandals sacked Rome
575 - Benedict I begins his reign as Catholic Pope
657 - St Eugene I ends his reign as Catholic Pope
1537 - Pope Paul III banned the enslavement of Indians.
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1615 - First Récollet missionaries arrive at Quebec City, from Rouen, France.
1619 - England and; Netherlands sign treaty about business in the Indies
1625 - Prince Frederik Henry sworn in as viceroy of Holland/Zealand
1627 - English king Charles I establishes Guyana Company
1633 - Prince Frederik Henry conquerors fort Rhine at Cologne
1676 - Battle at Palermo: French beats Dutch/Spanish fleet
1697 - Monarch August van Saksen becomes Catholic
1746 - Russiaand; Austria sign agreements
1763 - Pontiac's Rebellion: At what is now Mackinaw City, Michigan, Chippewas capture Fort Michilimackinac by diverting the garrison's attention with a game of lacrosse, then chasing a ball into the fort.
1774 - Intolerable Acts: Amendment to original Quartering Act enacted, allowed governor in colonial America to house British soldiers in uninhabited houses, outhouses, barns, or other buildings if suitable quarters not provided.
1780 - Anti Catholic demonstration attacks parliament in London
1780 - The Derby horse race is held for the first time.
Bust of the "Incorruptible" French Revolutionary Maximilien Robespierre
1793 - Maximillian Robespierre initiated the "Reign of Terror". It was an effort to purge those suspected of treason against the French Republic.
1797 - First ascent of "Great Mountain" (4,622') in Adirondack NY (C Broadhead)
1818 - The British army defeated the Maratha alliance in Bombay, India.
1834 - 5th national black convention meet (NYC)
1835 - P T Barnum & his circus begin 1st tour of US
1848 - The Slavic congress in Prague begins.
1851 - Maine became the first U.S. state to enact a law prohibiting alcohol.
1855 - The Portland Rum Riot occurs in Portland, Maine.
1857 - James Gibbs, Va, patents chain-stitch single-thread sewing machine
1858 - Donati Comet 1st seen named after it's discoverer
1862 - Gen Robert E Lee takes command of Confederate armies of E VA & NC
1862 - Raid at Early's: Maryland towards Washington DC
1863 - Harriet Tubman leads Union guerrillas into Maryland, freeing slaves
1864 - Battle of Cold Harbour, Day 2
1865 - At Galveston, Kirby-Smith surrenders Trans-Mississippi Dept
1866 - Renegade Irish Fenians surrender to US forces
1869 - Cleveland's Forest City play their 1st game (vs Cin Red Stockings)
1873 - Construction begins on Clay St (SF) for world's 1st cable railroad
1875 - James Augustine Healey became 1st Black Catholic Bishop in US
1876 - Hristo Botev, a national revolutionary of Bulgaria, is killed in Stara Planina
1881 - Haarlem-Zandvoort Railway opens
1882 - Pierre de Brazza festival welcomed in Paris
1883 - The first baseball game under electric lights was played in Fort Wayne, Indiana.
1883 - Chicago's "El" opens to traffic
1886 - Grover Cleveland became the second U.S. president to get married while in office (Frances Folsom) . He was the first to have a wedding in the White House.
1896 - 30th Belmont: Henry Griffin aboard Hastings wins in 2:24.5
1896 - Guglielmo Marconi applied to patent the radio, accepted 2 July 1897
1886 - Grover Cleveland became the second U.S. president to get married while in office. He was the first to have a wedding in the White House.
1897 - Mark Twain, at age 61, was quoted by the New York Journal as saying "the report of my death was an exaggeration." He was responding to the rumors that he had died.
1899 - Black Americans observed day of fasting to protest lynchings
1901 - Benjamin Adams arrested for playing golf on Sunday (NY)
1902 - Second statewide initiative & referendum law adopted, in Oregon
1903 - Netherlands Korfball League forms
1903 - Pirates win a triple header from Dodgers
1904 - Professor Schron finds microbe that causes photosynthesis
1908 - 33rd Preakness: Eddie Dugan aboard Royal Tourist wins in 1:46.4
1909 - 43rd Belmont: Eddie Dugan aboard Joe Madden wins in 2:21.6
1909 - Alfred Deakin becomes Prime Minister of Australia for the third time.
1910 - Pygmies discovered in Dutch New Guinea
1910 - Charles Stewart Roll became the first person to fly non-stop and double cross (roundtrip) the English Channel.
1913 - First strike settlement mediated by US Dept of Labor-RR clerks
1913 - Demonstrations for general voting right in Netherlands
1914 - Glenn Curtiss flies his Langley Aerodrome
1916 - German troops under Lt Rackow take Fort Vaux
1919 - Pulitzer prize awarded to Carl Sandburg (Cornhuskers)
1920 - Pulitzer prize awarded to Eugene O'Neill (Beyond the Horizon)
1922 - Suffy McInnis (1st base) ends an errorless string of 1,700 chances
1924 - Snyder Act: Congress citizenship granted to all American Indians
1925 - NY Yankee Lou Gehrig begins his 2,130 consecutive game streak
1928 - Nationalist Chiang Kai-shek captured Peking, China.
1928 - Velveeta Cheese created by Kraft
1930 - Sarah Dickson becomes first woman Presbyterian elder in US, Cincinnati
1930 - Mrs. M. Niezes of Panama gave birth to the first baby to be born on a ship while passing through the Panama Canal.
1932 - Franz von Papen "Cabinet of the Baron" premieres
1933 - U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt authorized the first swimming pool to be built inside the White House.
1933 - WNJ-AM in Newark NJ goes off the air
1935 - At the age of 40, George Herman "Babe" Ruth announced that his retirement from baseball.
1936 - Gen Anastasio Somoza takes over as dictator of Nicaragua
1937 - "The Fabulous Dr. Tweedy" was broadcast on NBC radio for the first time.
1940 - Heavy German bombing on Dunkirk beach
1941 - Baseball great, Lou Gehrig died of Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis, ALS, a rare type of paralysis now referred to as Lou Gehrig's disease.
1942 - Red Sox star Ted Williams enlists as a Navy aviator
1943 - 99th Pursuit Squadron flies 1st combat mission (over Italy)
1943 - German assault on Sebastopol Krim, begins
1944 - Generals Eisenhower and Montgomery dine in Portsmouth
1944 - Judendurchgangslager Vught disbands
1946 - In Italy, a plebiscite rejected the monarchy in favor of a republic (National Day)
1947 - "Louisiana Lady" opens at Century Theater NYC for 4 performances
1947 - Hungarian premier Ferenc Nagy resigns
1949 - Transjordan renamed Jordan
1950 - St Louis Browns pitcher Harry Dorish swipes home vs Wash Senators
1951 - Pope Pius XII publishes encyclical Evangelii praecones
1952 - 650,000 metal workers go on strike in US
1952 - Maurice Olley of General Motors begins designing the Corvette
1953 - Queen Elizabeth II of Britain was crowned in Westminster Abbey.
1954 - John Costello (Cons) becomes premier of Ireland
1954 - U.S. Senator Joseph McCarthy charged that there were communists working in the CIA and atomic weapons plants.
1955 - The USSR and Yugoslavia sign the Belgrade declaration and thus normalize relations between both countries, discontinued since 1948.
1956 - Yugoslav president Tito visits Moscow
1957 - Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev was interviewed by CBS-TV.
1958 - Alan Freed joins WABC (NYC) radio
1958 - Brooks Robinson, hits into 1st of record 4 triple plays
1958 - Yankees pitcher Whitey Ford fans 6 in a row to tie an AL record
1959 - Allen Ginsberg writes his poem "Lysergic Acid," SF
1960 - Broadway theaters close (labor dispute between owners & Actors Equity)
1962 - 32nd French Mens Tennis: Rod Laver beats Roy Emerson (36 26 63 97 62)
1964 - "Follies Bergere" opens at Broadway Theater NYC for 191 performances
1964 - Lal Bahadur Sjastri elected premier of India
1964 - Rolling Stones 1st US concert tour debuts in Lynn, Mass
1965 - Second of 2 cyclones in less than a month kills 35,000 (Ganges R India)
1966 - Surveyor 1, the U.S. space probe, landed in Oceanus Procellarum, on the moon and started sending photographs back to Earth of the Moon's surface. It was the first soft landing on the Moon.
1967 - Race riots in Roxbury section of Boston
1968 - Canadians must get government permission to export silver
1968 - WBLG (now WTVQ) TV channel 62 in Lexington, KY (ABC) 1st broadcast
1969 - The National Arts Center in Canada opened its doors to the public.
1969 - Australian aircraft carrier Melbourne sliced the destroyer USS Frank E. Evans in half off the shore of South Vietnam, killing 74.
1971 - Ajax wins 16th Europe Cup 1
1973 - "Nash at Nine" closes at Helen Hayes Theater NYC after 21 performances
1974 - Mali adopts constitution
1974 - Malta's constitution goes into effect
1975 - First time snow fell in London in June
1975 - James A Healy, 1st black Roman Catholic bishop, consecrated (Maine)
1975 - VP Rockefeller finds no pattern of illegal activities at CIA
1976 - East-Timor People's Assembly accepts annexation through Indonesia
1977 - NJ allows casino gambling in Atlantic City
1979 - NASA launches space vehicle S-198
1979 - Pope John Paul II arrived in his native Poland on the first visit by a pope to a Communist country.
1980 - "Your Arm's Too Short to Box..." opens at Ambassador NYC for 149 perfs
1981 - Barbara Walters asks Katharine Hepburn what kind of tree she would be
1982 - "Blues in the Night" opens at Rialto Theater NYC for 53 performances
1983 - 1980 movie "Attack of the Killer Tomatoes," released in Germany
1983 - Toilet catches fire on Air Canada's DC-9, 23 die at Cincinnati
1984 - "Welcome To Fun Zone" hosted by Dr Demento airs on NBC-TV
1984 - Actress Jill Ireland has a radical mastectomy
1984 - Flight readiness firing of Discovery's main engines
1985 - 39th Tony Awards: Biloxi Blues & Big River win
1985 - Andreas Papandreous PASOK-party wins election in Greece
1985 - The R.J. Reynolds Company proposed a major merger with Nabisco that would create a $4.9 billion conglomerate.
1985 - Tommy Sandt was ejected from a major-league baseball game before the national anthem was played. He had complained to the umpire about a call against his team the night before.
1986 - NYC transit system issues a new brass with steel bullseye token
1986 - Regular TV coverage of US Senate sessions begins
1987 - Mariners draft Ken Griffey Jr #1
1988 - 61st Natl Spell Bee: Rageshree Ramachandran wins spelling elegiacal
1988 - Consumer Reports calls for a ban on the Suzuki Samurai automobile
1989 - "Dead Poets Society" starring Robin Williams, premieres
1989 - 14 year old Scott Isaacs spells spoliator to win 1989 Spelling Bee
1989 - Cincinnati Red Eric Davis hits for cycle
1989 - 10,000 Chinese soldiers are blocked by 100,000 citizens protecting students demonstrating for democracy in Tiananmen Square, Beijing
1990 - "Turtle Power" by Partners In Kryme hits #13
1990 - Seattle's Randy Johnson, no-hits Tigers, 2-0
1991 - 45th Tony Awards: Lost in Yonkers & Will Rogers Follies win
1991 - 4th Children's Miracle Network Telethon
1991 - Seppo Raty of Finland improves his world javelin record to 318' 1"
1991 - Three Andrettis finished 1-2-3 in the Miller 200 at Wisconsin
1992 - Former NFL NY Giant Coach Bill Parcells undergoes open heart surgery
1994 - 67th National Spelling Bee: Ned Andrews wins spelling antediluvian
1994 - Chinook helicopter crashes in North Scotland (29 killed)
1994 - Indonesian censors ban Steven Spielberg's "Schindler's List"
1994 - Sharon Stone files $12m lawsuit against her jeweler
1995 - John Valentin hits 3 HRs
1995 - Captain Scott F. O'Grady's U.S. Air Force F-16C was shot down by Bosnian Serbs. He was rescued six days later.
1996 - 50th Tony Awards: Master Class & Rent win
1996 - 9th Children's Miracle Network Telethon
1997 - Albert Belle's Chic White Sox tying 27-game hitting streak ends
1997 - Liberals beat Conservatives in France
1997 - Timothy McVeigh found guilty of 1995 Oklahoma City bombing, killing 168
1998 - The CIH computer virus is discovered in Taiwan.
1998 - Royal Caribbean Cruises agreed to pay $9 million to settle charges of dumping waste at sea.
1998 - Voters in California passed Proposition 227. The act abolished the state's 30-year-old bilingual education program by requiring that all children be taught in English.
1999 - In South Africa, the African National Congress (ANC) won a major victory. ANC leader Thabo Mbeki was to succeed Nelson Mandela as the nation's president.
1999 - The Bhutan Broadcasting Service brings television transmissions to the Kingdom for the first time.
2003 - Europe launches its first voyage to another planet, Mars. The European Space Agency's Mars Express probe launches from the Baikonur space centre in Kazakhstan. Contact with the lander Beagle 2 was lost in December.
2003 - In the U.S., federal regulators voted to allow companies to buy more television stations and newspaper-broadcasting combinations in the same city. The previous ownership restrictions had not been altered since 1975.
2003 - In Seville, Spain, a chest containing the supposed remains of Christopher Columbus were exhumed for DNA tests to determine whether the bones were really those of the explorer. The tests were aimed at determining if Colombus was currently buried in Spain's Seville Cathedral or in Santo Domingo in the Dominican Republic.
2003 - The U.S. Supreme Court ruled that companies could not be sued under a trademark law for using information in the public domain without giving credit to the originator. The case had originated with 20th Century Fox against suing Dastar Corp. over their use of World War II footage.
2003 - William Baily was reunited with two paintings he had left on a subway platform. One of the works was an original Picasso rendering of two male figures and a recreation of Picasso's "Guernica" by Sophie Matisse. Sophie Matisse was the great-granddaughter of Henri Matisse.
2004 - Ken Jennings begins his 74-game winning streak on the syndicated game show Jeopardy!.
The following links are to web sites that were used to complete this blog entry:
http://www.historyorb.com/today/events.php
http://on-this-day.com/onthisday/thedays/alldays/jun02.htm
http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history
http://www.infoplease.com/dayinhistory
