What are the important events that happened on June 2? Here are historical events, facts, and some myths about this day.

June 2: Facts & Myths About This Day

June 2 is the 153^rd day of the year 2025 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 212 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Monday.

Under the Julian calendar, this day is May 20, 2025 – a Monday. Both day of the week are the same but did you notice the difference with the Gregorian calendar?

When this day started, 1,748,822,400 seconds has elapsed since midnight of January 1, 1970 – the Unix epoch.

Strange as it may, if we name this day after a polygon then it will be called ‘hectapentacontatrigon’ day.

Gemini is the zodiac sign of a person born on this day. Pearl is the modern birthstone for this month. Moonstone is the mystical birthstone from Tibetan origin that dates back over a thousand years.

According to the lunisolar Chinese calendar, there are 260 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.

The ancient Maya civilization believes that the end of the world will happen on December 21, 2012. There are now 4,546 days since this fabled cataclysmic event.

June 2 Historical Events

• 1098 –
  First Crusade: The first Siege of Antioch ends as Crusader forces take the city. The second siege would later start on June 7.
• 1676 –
  Franco-Dutch War: France ensured the supremacy of its naval fleet for the remainder of the war with its victory in the Battle of Palermo.
• 1886 –
  U.S. President Grover Cleveland marries Frances Folsom in the White House, becoming the only president to wed in the executive mansion.
• 1953 –
  The coronation of Queen Elizabeth II, who is crowned Queen of the United Kingdom, Canada, Australia, New Zealand and Her Other Realms and Territories & Head of the Commonwealth, the first major international event to be televised.
• 1967 –
  Luis Monge is executed in Colorado’s gas 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 new safety regulations are put in place.
• 1997 –
  In Denver, Colorado, 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, Oklahoma.
• 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 center in Kazakhstan.
• 2004 –
  Ken Jennings begins his 74-game winning streak on the syndicated game show Jeopardy!

Who were born on June 2?

• 1743 –
  Count Alessandro di Cagliostro, Sicilian Occultist (d. 1795)
• 1913 –
  Walter Andreas Schwarz, German singer and author (d. 1992)
• 1924 –
  June Callwood, Canadian journalist and activist (d. 2007)
• 1930 –
  Pete Conrad, American astronaut (d. 1999)
• 1937 –
  Sally Kellerman, American actress
• 1950 –
  Joanna Gleason, Canadian actress and singer
• 1959 –
  Lydia Lunch, American singer
• 1964 –
  Caroline Link, German film director and screenwriter
• 1973 –
  Neifi Perez, Dominican baseball player
• 1983 –
  Leela James, American singer-songwriter

Who died on June 2?

• 1567 –
  Shane O'Neill, Irish king of Ulsters (b. 1530)
• 1948 –
  Karl Brandt, personal physician of Adolf Hitler (b. 1904)
• 1969 –
  Leo Gorcey, American actor (b. 1917)
• 1970 –
  Giuseppe Ungaretti, Italian poet (b. 1888)
• 1982 –
  Fazal Ilahi Chaudhry, Pakistani politician (b. 1904)
• 1990 –
  Sir Rex Harrison, English actor (b. 1908)
• 1996 –
  Ray Combs, American game show host and comedian (b. 1956)
• 2000 –
  Gerald Whitrow, British mathematician (b. 1912)
• 2000 –
  Svyatoslav Fyodorov, Russian ophthalmologist (b. 1927)
• 2008 –
  Bo Diddley, American musician (b. 1928)