TODAY IN HISTORY (JUNE 2ND)

EVENTS THAT HAPPENED ON THIS DAY

• 1909 – Alfred Deakin becomes Prime Minister of Australia for the third time.
• 1910 – Charles Rolls, a co-founder of Rolls-Royce Limited, becomes the first man to make a non-stop double crossing of the English Channel by plane.
• 1919 – Anarchists simultaneously set off bombs in eight separate U.S cities.
• 1924 – U.S. President Calvin Coolidge signs the Indian Citizenship Act into law, granting citizenship to all Native Americans born within the territorial limits of the United States.
• 1953: The Coronation of Queen Elizabeth II at Westminster Abbey becomes the first British coronation and one of the first major international events to be televised.
• 1955 – The USSR and Yugoslavia sign the Belgrade declaration and thus normalize relations between the two countries, discontinued since 1948.
• 1962 – During the FIFA WORLD CUP, police had to intervene multiple times in fights between Chilean and Italian players in one of the most violent games in football history.
• 1964 – The Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) is formed.
• 1966 – Surveyor program: Surveyor 1 lands in Oceanus Procellarum on the Moon, becoming the first U.S spacecraft to soft landon another world.
• 1967 – Luiz Monge is executed in Colorado’s chamber, in the last pre-Furman execution in the United States.

• 1983 – After an emergency landing because of an in-flight fire, twenty-three passengers aboard Air Canada Flight 797 are killed when a flashover occurs as the plane’s doors open. Because of this incident, numerous

• 1997 – In Denver, Timothy McVeigh, is convicted on 15 counts of murder and conspiracy for his role in the 1995 bombing of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City, in which 168 people died. He was executed four years later.

• 2003 – Europe launches its first voyage to another planet, Mars. The European Space Agency’s Mars Express probe launches from the Baikonur space center in Kazakhstan.

• 2012 – Former Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak is sentenced to life imprisonment for his role in the killing of demonstrators during the 2011 Egyptian revolution.

• 2014 – Teleangana officially becomes the 29th state of India, formed from ten districts of northwestern Andhra Pradesh

NATIONAL DAY/OBSERVANCES
• Coronation Day (Azerbaijan)
• Coronation of King Jigme Singye Wangchuck, also Social Forestry Day (Bhutan)
• Day of Hristo Botev (Bulgari)
• Decoration Day (Canada)
• Festa della Repubblica (Italy)
• International Sex workers Day
• Telangana Day (Telangana, India)
• Children’s day ( Korea)