Browse events, births, deaths and holidays on June 2 throughout history.
On 2 June 2023, three trains collided in Balasore district in the east Indian state of Odisha. The crash occurred around 19:00 IST when Coromandel Express, a passenger train, coll…
A collision between two passenger trains and a parked freight train near the city of Balasor, Odisha in eastern India, r
Ankara is the capital city of Turkey. Located in the central part of Anatolia, the city has a population of over 5.3 million residents in its urban center, out of 6 million reside…
Following a request from Ankara, the United Nations officially changed the name of the Republic of Turkey in the organiz
Telangana is a state in southern India on the Deccan Plateau bordering Maharashtra and Chhattisgarh to the north and Andhra Pradesh and Karnataka to the south. It is the eleventh …
Telangana officially becomes the 29th state of India, formed from ten districts of northwestern Andhra Pradesh
The president of the Arab Republic of Egypt is the head of state of Egypt. Under the various iterations of the Constitution of Egypt following the Egyptian revolution of 1952, the…
Former Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak is sentenced to life imprisonment for his role in the killing of demonstrators d
Mars is the fourth planet from the Sun. It is also known as the "Red Planet", for its orange-red appearance. Mars is a desert-like rocky planet with a tenuous atmosphere that is p…
Europe launches its first voyage to another planet, Mars
Space Shuttle Discovery is a retired American Space Shuttle orbiter. The spaceplane was one of the orbiters from NASA's Space Shuttle program and the third of five fully operation…
Space Shuttle Discovery is launched on STS-91, the final mission of the Shuttle-Mir program
Denver is the capital and most populous city of the U.S. state of Colorado. Officially a consolidated city and county, it is located in the South Platte River valley on the wester…
In Denver, Timothy McVeigh is convicted on 11 counts of murder and conspiracy for his role in the 1995 bombing of the Al
Denver is the capital and most populous city of the U.S. state of Colorado. Officially a consolidated city and county, it is located in the South Platte River valley on the wester…
In Denver, Timothy McVeigh is convicted on 15 counts of murder and conspiracy for his role in the 1995 bombing of the Al
The June 1990 Lower Ohio Valley tornado outbreak spawned 65 tornadoes, including seven of F4 intensity, in southern Illinois, central and southern Indiana, southwestern Ohio, and …
The Lower Ohio Valley tornado outbreak spawns 66 confirmed tornadoes in Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, and Ohio, killing 1
Air Canada Flight 797 was an international passenger flight operating from Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport to Montréal–Dorval International Airport, with an intermediate s…
After an emergency landing because of an in-flight fire, twenty-three passengers aboard Air Canada Flight 797 are killed
Pope John Paul II was head of the Catholic Church and sovereign of Vatican City from 16 October 1978 until his death in 2005. He was the first non-Italian pope since Adrian VI in …
Pope John Paul II starts his first official visit to his native Poland, becoming the first Pope to visit a Communist cou
Luis José Monge was a convicted mass murderer who was executed in the gas chamber at Colorado State Penitentiary in 1967. Monge was the last inmate to be executed before an unoffi…
Luis Monge is executed in Colorado's gas chamber, in the last pre-Furman execution in the United States
West Berlin was a political enclave which comprised the western part of Berlin from 1948 until 1990, during the Cold War. Although West Berlin was de jure not part of West Germany…
Protests in West Berlin against the arrival of the Shah of Iran are brutally suppressed, during which Benno Ohnesorg is
The Surveyor program was a NASA program that, from June 1966 through January 1968, sent seven robotic spacecraft to the surface of the Moon. Its primary goal was to demonstrate th…
Surveyor program: Surveyor 1 lands in Oceanus Procellarum on the Moon, becoming the first U
The Palestine Liberation Organization is a Palestinian nationalist coalition that is internationally recognized as the official representative of the Palestinian people in the occ…
The Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) is formed
The 1962 FIFA World Cup was the seventh edition of the FIFA World Cup, the quadrennial international football championship for senior men's national teams. It was held from 30 May…
During the FIFA World Cup, police had to intervene multiple times in fights between Chilean and Italian players in one o
Aeroméxico Flight 111 was a scheduled commercial flight from Tijuana to Acapulco with stopovers in Mazatlán, Guadalajara, and Mexico City. On June 2, 1958, the Lockheed L-749 Cons…
Aeronaves de México Flight 111 crashes on approach to Guadalajara International Airport, killing 45
The Soviet Union, officially the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR), was a transcontinental country that spanned much of Eurasia from 1922 until its dissolution in 1991. I…
The USSR and Yugoslavia sign the Belgrade declaration and thus normalize relations between the two countries, discontinu
The coronation of Elizabeth II as queen of the United Kingdom and the other Commonwealth realms took place on 2 June 1953 at Westminster Abbey in London. Elizabeth acceded to the …
The coronation of Queen Elizabeth II at Westminster Abbey becomes the first British coronation and one of the first majo
An institutional referendum was held by universal suffrage in the Kingdom of Italy on 2 June 1946, a key event of contemporary Italian history. Until 1946, Italy was a kingdom rul…
Birth of the Italian Republic: In a referendum, Italians vote to turn Italy from a monarchy into a Republic