Category: This Day In History June 02

Note: These categories should be applied only to notable persons/events in history.

Historic Events:

June 2nd - ""Pietro Alberti Day" in New York City celebrates the first Italian settler.
1953 - Queen Elizabeth II was crowned.
1997 - Timothy McVeigh was found guilty of murder and conspiracy in the deaths of 168 people in the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing.

Famous Births:

Famous Deaths:

1941 Lou Gehrig, American professional baseball player died of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, later dubbed Lou Gehrig's disease".
1970 - Bruce McLaren, NZ Race Car Driver.
1990 - Rex Garrison, award-winning English actor.
2001 - Imogene Coca, Comic actor and Emmy Award Winner.
2008 - Bo Diddley, Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductee (1987), Grammy award-winning blues guitarist.
2019 - Kenneth Joseph Matthews, British Racewalker, 1964 20 km gold medal Olympian.
2019 - Alan Rollinson, British racing driver.
2020 - Gaynel Hodge, Founding member of the doo-wop group The Platters.

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Pietro (Alberti) Albertus abt 02 Jun 1608 Rio de San Luca, Venice, Veneto, Italy - bef 09 Nov 1655

Emogeane Coca 18 Nov 1908 Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States - 02 Jun 2001

Charles Peter Conrad 02 Jun 1930 Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA - 08 Jul 1999

Edward Elgar 02 Jun 1857 Lower Broadheath, Worcestershire, England, United Kingdom - 23 Feb 1934

Reginald Harrison 05 Mar 1908 Huyton, Lancashire, England, United Kingdom - 02 Jun 1990

Thomas Henderson 01 May 1820 Delgaty Castle, Aberdeenshire - 02 Jun 1858

Bruce McLaren 30 Aug 1937 Auckland, New Zealand - 02 Jun 1970

Joel Rosenberg 01 May 1954 Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada - 02 Jun 2011

Gershom (Seixas) Mendes Seixas 15 Jan 1745 Newport, Rhode Island - 02 Jul 1816

Bell Shimada 17 Jan 1922 Seattle, King, Washington, United States - 02 Jun 1958

János (Weißmüller) Weissmuller 02 Jun 1904 Szabadfalu, Temes vármegye, Magyar Királyság, Osztrák-Magyar Monarchia - 20 Jan 1984

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