It happened on this day, June 2
events:
1771 – The Russian Empire completes its conquest of Crimea.
1800 – Smallpox vaccine first appears in North America.
1815 – Napoleon Bonaparte proclaims the Constitution of Liberty in France.
1875 – The telephone first appears in the hands of inventor Alexander Graham Bell.
1886 – United States President Grover Cleveland marries Francis Folsom, making him the first American president to marry while in the White House.
1896 – Guglielmo Marconi receives the radio patent.
1910 – Charles Rolls makes the first successful return trip across the English Channel.
1930 – A rebellion breaks out in the Mutawakkilite kingdom of Yemen, led by Muhammad Al-Dabbagh Al-Hijazi, against Imam Yahya Hamid Al-Din in the town of Al-Bayda, which aimed to return power over the Hijaz to Abdulaziz Al Saud to Al-Ashraf Al-Hussein bin Ali.
1932 – King Fouad inaugurates Almaza airport in the middle of a great popular celebration, and the first 3 Egyptian pilots board the first Egyptian planes.
1946 – The abolition of the monarchy in Italy and the declaration of the establishment of the republic, after the deposition of King Victor Emmanuel III and his exile in Egypt and the issuance of a decree banning men from the former ruling family to enter Italy.
✴️ The United States and the United Kingdom return the “Azores Base” to Portugal. This base is located in the Azores Islands in the Atlantic Ocean, and these islands were one of the important stations for the black slave trade from Africa.
1949 – The name Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan is chosen as the official name of Jordan and King Abdullah bin Al Hussein announces the annexation of the West Bank of the Jordan River to Jordanian control.
1953 – Queen Elizabeth II is officially crowned queen to the British throne. She was 25 years old.
1954 – Yugoslav Mikoyan-Gerović MiG-15s attack a Belgian Douglas DC-3, forcing the plane to crash in Austria.
1966 – The American spacecraft Surveyor 1 lands on the Moon.
1968 – A second American F-4 Phantom crashes on the campus of Kyushu University in Japan.
1971 – The first issue of the Jordanian newspaper Al-Rai is published.
1976 – East Timor's interim parliament agrees to join Indonesia, about a year after the Portuguese occupation left the island. The island gained independence in 1999.
1983 – An Air Canada McDonnell Douglas DC9 burns after an emergency landing at Cincinnati-Northern Kentucky International Airport. The accident killed 23 of the 46 people on board.
1989 – The Egyptian flag is raised over the Arab League headquarters in Tunisia, following a period of Arab boycott of Egypt following its unilateral reconciliation with Israel.
1997 – Timothy McVeigh is convicted on 15 counts in the bombing of a federal building in Oklahoma.
2005 – Lebanese journalist and thinker Samir Kassir is assassinated by detonating an explosive device in his car in Beirut.
2007 – The first issue of the Kuwaiti newspaper Al-Jarida is published.
2009 – The Brazilian Air Force announces that a seat and debris have been found near where Air France Flight 447 likely fell into the waters of the Atlantic Ocean.
2012 – Former Egyptian President Mohamed Hosni Mubarak and his Interior Minister, Habib Al-Adly, were sentenced to life in prison after being found guilty of killing protesters during the January 25 Revolution. All the collaborators of the Minister of the Interior acquitted him. two sons, Alaa and Gamal, were also sentenced to expire after the charges against them expired. The court also acquitted them of the crime of participating in obtaining a benefit from work.
2014 – The Palestinian Government of National Accord is sworn in under the leadership of Rami Hamdallah.
✴️ The King of Spain, Juan Carlos I, abdicates power in favor of his son Felipe after 38 years of reign and announces the completion of the process of handing over the throne after the approval of Parliament.
2015 – Joseph Blatter resigns as FIFA president, days after winning a new term in which he rivaled Prince Ali bin Al Hussein.
2017 – An armed attack on the World Manila Resort in Pasay City, Philippines, killed 37 people and injured 70 others, and the perpetrator committed suicide after setting the place on fire.
2018 – A migrant boat sank off the Tunisian island of Kerkennah, killing at least seventy people.
2021 – The Iranian ship IRIS Kharg sank in the Gulf of Oman near Jask after a fire broke out, and its crew survived. It is the largest oil transport ship in the Iranian Navy.
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Births:
1664 – Sultan Mustafa II, Ottoman sultan.
1740 – Marquis de Sade, French novelist.
1835 – Pope Pius X, pope of the Roman Catholic Church.
1840 – Thomas Hardy, English novelist.
1857 – Karl Gjöllorup, Danish poet who won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1917.
1899 – Lotta Reiniger, German director and animator.
1920 – Marcel Ranki, German critic.
1921 – Abdullah Al-Tayeb, Sudanese writer.
1930 – Ahmed Tawfiq, Egyptian actor and director.
1931 – Viktor Tsarev, Soviet footballer.
1940 – King Constantine II, king of Greece.
1941 – Stacy Keach, American actor.
(1945–ZiziMostafaEgyptian actress
1954 – Dennis Haysbert, American actor.
1957 – Ahmed Fouad Selim, Egyptian actor.
1962 – Hatem Ali, Syrian director.
1972 – Wentworth Miller, American actor.
1977 – Zachary Quinto, American actor.
1981 – Nikolai Davydenko, Russian tennis player.
1986 – Bilal Mohammed, Qatari footballer.
1987 – Ahmed Abdel Ghafour, Kuwaiti footballer.
**Darren Zaniar, Swedish singer.
** Sonakshi Sinha, Indian actress.
1988 – Sergio Agüero, Argentine footballer.
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Death:
1403 – Siraj al-Din al-Balqini, one of the imams of jurisprudence and hadith and the innovator of the eighth century AH.
1878 – Amin bin Muhammad Al-Jundi, Hanafi jurist, judge and Levantine poet.
1882 – Giuseppe Garibaldi, Italian soldier and politician.
1919 – Muhammad Al-Dhale' Al-Najdi, Iraqi poet, merchant and philanthropist.
1948 – Hassan Salama, one of the leaders of the Great Palestinian Revolt and one of the leaders of the Holy Jihad Army during the 1948 war.
1948 – Karl Gebhart – a Nazi doctor who became famous for his horrific medical experiments on concentration center prisoners.
1970 – Mohsen Tabatabai Al-Hakim, Iraqi Shiite authority.
** Ali Al-Nasser, Syrian doctor, poet and short story writer.
1976 – Abdel Rahman Azzam, first secretary general of the League of Arab States.
1990 – Rex Harrison, English actor.
1992 – George Abdullah Ghanem, Lebanese poet.
1993 – Tahar Jaout, Algerian poet, novelist and journalist.
2005 – Samir Kassir, Lebanese journalist.
2009 – Yousef Ibrahim Al-Ghanim, Kuwaiti economist.
2017 – Muhammad Al-Rawi, Egyptian Muslim scholar.
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Holidays and Occasions:
⬅️ Republic Day in Italy.
⬅️ Independence Day in Samoa.
