1660 Mary Dyer hanged under law banning Quakers from Massachusetts Bay Colony.
1801 Brigham Young was born in Whitingham, Vermont.
1857 Les Fleurs du mal by Charles Baudelaire was published.
1926 Andy Griffith was born in Mount Airy, North Carolina.
1974 Alanis Morrissette was born in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.
1980 Cable News Network (CNN) made its debut.
June 2
1897 Responding to rumors that he was dead or dying, Mark Twain was quoted
by the New York Journal as saying that “the report of my death was an exaggeration.”
1924 Indian Citizenship Act signed by U.S. President Calvin Coolidge.
1941 Charlie Watts was born in London.
1958 Esther Roberta Fishman was born in San Andreas, California.
1987 President Ronald Reagan nominated Alan Greenspan to be chairman of the Federal Reserve Board.
2006 Vince Welnick died in Sonoma County, California at age 55.
1888 “Casey At The Bat,” the poem by Ernest Lawrence Thayer, was first published in The San Francisco Daily Examiner.
1989 Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini died in Tehran, Iran at age 86.
2001 Anthony Quinn died in Boston at age 86.
1876 The Transcontinental Express arrives in San Francisco via the First Transcontinental Railroad only 83 hours and 39 minutes after leaving New York City.
1989 The Tiananmen Square massacre, Beijing.
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1878 Pancho Villa was born in Mexico.
1947 Laurie Anderson was born in Glen Ellyn, Illinois.
1967 War erupted as Israel attacked Egypt. Syria, Jordan and Iraq entered the conflict.
1968 Robert F. Kennedy was shot and mortally wounded in Los Angeles.
1999 Mel Tormé died in Los Angeles at age 73.
2010 A Teddy Bear’s Picnic for Daniel Wilson in Briones Regional Park, Martinez, California.
2012 Ray Bradbury died in Los Angeles at age 91.
1832 The June Rebellion in Paris was put down by the National Guard.
1932 First gas tax in the U.S. was established.
1934 United States Securities and Exchange Commission was established.
1941 Alexander Cockburn was born in Scotland.
1942 Coosje van Bruggen was born in Groningen, Netherlands.
1978 Proposition 13 passed by California voters.
1848 Paul Gauguin was born in Paris.
1967 Author/critic Dorothy Parker died in New York City.
2012 Bob Welch died in Antioch, Tennessee at age 66.
1845 Andrew Jackson died in Nashville, Tennessee at age 78.
1949 George Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-
2018 Anthony Bourdain died in Kaysersberg-
1870 Charles Dickens died in England at age 58.
1934 Donald Duck’s debut in Walt Disney’s cartoon The Wise Little Hen.
1865 The opera Tristan and Isolde by Richard Wagner premiered in Munich.
1928 Maurice Sendak was born in Brooklyn, New York.
2001 Crusader Rabbit Stealth Band played Sweetwater, Mill Valley, California.
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1770 Captain James Cook discovered the Great Barrier Reef off Australia by running into it.
1910 Jacques Cousteau was born in France.
1956 Joe Montana was born in New Eagle, Pennsylvania.
1979 John Wayne died in Los Angeles at age 72.
1999 DeForest Kelley died in Los Angeles at age 79.
2001 Timothy McVeigh was executed for the Oklahoma City bombing.
1939 Baseball’s Hall of Fame was dedicated in Cooperstown, New York.
1865 William Butler Yeats was born in Dublin.
1971 The New York Times began publishing the Pentagon Papers.
1983 Pioneer 10 left the Solar System.
1158 München founded by Heinrich der Löwe.
1777 The Stars and Stripes was adopted by the Continental Congress as the Flag of the United States.
1820 Quote compiler John Bartlett was born in Plymouth, Massachusetts.
1846 Republic of California proclaimed in Sonoma.
1922 Warren G. Harding became the first U.S. President to broadcast over the radio.
1933 Jerzy Kosiński was born in Łódź, Poland.
1986 Marlin Perkins died in St. Louis at age 81.
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1752 Benjamin Franklin proves that lightning is electricity (traditional date, exact date unknown).
1878 Eadweard Muybridge takes a series of photographs proving that all four feet of a horse leave the ground when it runs; the study becomes the basis of motion pictures.
1991 Mount Pinatubo volcano erupted.
1890 Stan Laurel was born in England.
1903 The Ford Motor Company was incorporated.
1999 Vice President Al Gore announced his candidacy for the U.S. Presidency.
801 Drogo of Metz was born.
1882 Igor Stravinsky was born in Lomonosov, Russia.
1901 First standardized test introduced by the College Board (forerunner to the SAT).
1933 The Kansas City massacre took place at Union Station in Kansas City, Missouri.
1972 Watergate break-
2012 Rodney King died in Rialto, California at age 47.
1873 Susan B. Anthony was fined $100 for attempting to vote in the 1872 presidential election.
1942 Paul McCartney was born in Liverpool, England.
1897 Moe Howard was born in Brooklyn, New York.
1919 Movie critic Pauline Kael was born in Petaluma, California.
1947 Salman Rushdie was born in Bombay, India.
2012 Julian Assange, founder of WikiLeaks, requested asylum inside the Ecuadorian Embassy in London.
1782 Congress approved the Great Seal of the United States.
1946 TV handyman Bob Vila was born in Miami.
1938 Ron Ely was born in Hereford, Texas.
1989 The Supreme Court ruled that burning the American flag as a political protest is protected by the First Amendment.
2001 Bluesman John Lee Hooker died in Los Altos, California at age 83.
2001 Actor Carroll O’Connor died in Culver City, California at age 76.
1936 Kris Kristofferson was born in Brownsville, Texas.
1948 Todd Rundgren was born in Upper Darby, Pennsylvania.
1969 Judy Garland died in London at age 47.
1990 Checkpoint Charlie in Berlin dismantled.
2008 George Carlin died in Santa Monica, California at age 71.
1926 The College Board administered the first SAT exam.
1941 Robert Hunter was born in San Luis Obispo, California.
1717 The Premier Grand Lodge of England, the first Masonic Grand Lodge in the world (now the United Grand Lodge of England), was founded in London.
1842 Ambrose Bierce was born Meigs County, Ohio.
1947 First widely reported UFO sighting made by Kenneth Arnold near Mount Rainier, Washington.
1903 George Orwell was born in Bengal.
1978 The rainbow flag was flown for the first time in the San Francisco Gay Freedom Day Parade.
1870 Christmas declared a U.S. federal holiday.
1945 The United Nations Charter was signed in San Francisco by 50 nations.
2002 Philip Whalen died in San Francisco at age 78.
2012 Nora Ephron died in New York City at age 71.
1869 Emma Goldman was born in Kovno, Russian Empire.
1905 Industrial Workers of the World party founded.
1969 The Stonewall riots began in New York City.
2002 John Entwistle died in Las Vegas, Nevada at age 57.
1577 Peter Paul Rubens was born in Germany.
1712 Jean-
1888 Robert Louis Stevenson left San Francisco for the South Seas.
1520 Montezuma died.
1613 The Globe Theatre in London burned down.
1861 Elizabeth Barrett Browning died in Florence, Italy at age 55.
1958 John Woods Wheeler was born.
1979 Lowell George died in Arlington, Virginia at age 34.
2007 Apple Inc. released the first iPhone.
2014 The Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant self-
1914 Mohandas K. Gandhi was arrested in South Africa.
1936 Dave Van Ronk was born in Brooklyn.
1997 Hong Kong transferred from British to Chinese sovereignty.
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