Historical Events In June - 02

1958  On June - 02 alan Freed joins WABC (NYC) radio  

1959  On June - 02 allen Ginsberg writes his poem "Lysergic Acid," SF  

1960  On June - 02 broadway theaters close (labor dispute between owners & Actors Equity)  

1961  On this day in history george S Kaufman, playwright/dir/pulitzer prize winner, dies at 72  

1962  32nd French Mens Tennis: Rod Laver beats Roy Emerson (36 26 63 97 62) on June - 02.  

1962  On June - 02 franc S Finzgar, Slovic writer (Service Girls), dies  

1963  Mickey Wright wins LPGA Babe Didrikson-Zaharias Golf Open on this day in history.  

1964  Rolling Stones first US concert tour debuts in Lynn, Mass on this day in history.  

1964  On this day in history "Follies Bergere" opens at Broadway Theater NYC for 191 performances  

1965  On this day in history 2nd of 2 cyclones in less than a month kills 35,000 (Ganges R India)  

1966  On this day in history uS Surveyor 1 lands in Oceanus Procellarum; first lunar soft-landing  

1967  On June - 02 race riots in Roxbury section of Boston  

1967  On June - 02 zamah Cunningham, actress (Menosha the Magnificent), dies at 74  

1969  On this day in history australian aircraft carrier "Melbourne" slices US destroyer "Frank E Evans" in half, killing 74. (South Vietnam)  

1971  On this day in history charles de Keukeleire, Belgian director (Evil Eye), dies at 66  

1972  Dion & the Belmonts reunion concert at Madison Square Garden on June - 02.  

1972  Franz Philipp, composer, dies at 81 on this day in history.  

1974  Elliott Sullivan, actor (Sergeant), dies at 66 on this day in history.  

1975  Eisaku Sato, premier of Japan (1964-71 Nobel 1974), dies at 74 on June - 02.  

1976  Alan Dewitt, actor (Mr Tyler-It's About Time), dies at 52 on June - 02.  

1977  NJ allows casino gambling in Atlantic City on June - 02.  

1977  On this day in history forrest Lewis, actor (Great Gildersleeve, Ichabod & Me), dies at 77  

1979  John Paul II becomes first pope to visit a communist country (Poland) on this day in history.  

1979  NASA launches space vehicle S-198 on this day in history.  

1979  On June - 02 pope John Paul II arrives in his native Poland -- the first-ever visit by a pontiff to a Communist country.  

1979  Jim Hutton, actor (Ellery Queen), dies of liver cancer at 45 on June - 02.  

1981  On June - 02 barbara Walters asks Katharine Hepburn what kind of tree she would be  

1983  Toilet catches fire on Air Canada's DC-9, 23 die at Cincinatti on June - 02.  

1983  On this day in history stan Rogers, musician, dies in aircraft fire  

1984  On June - 02 actress Jill Ireland has a radical masectomy  

1984  On June - 02 b A Skiff discovers asteroid #3617  

1984  On June - 02 flight readiness firing of Discovery's main engines  

1986  NYC transit system issues a new brass with steel bullseye token on June - 02.  

1986  On this day in history regular TV coverage of US Senate sessions begins  

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0926  Murakami, Emperor of Japan (d. 967) was born on June - 02.  

1504  On this day in history birth of george/Joris van Egmont, bishop of Utrecht  

1535  On this day in history birth of leo XI, [Alessandro O de' Medici], Italy, Pope (1605)  

1577  Giovanni Righi, composer was born on this day in history.  

1614  On June - 02 birth of benjamin Rogers, composer  

1624  Jan III Sobieski, King of Poland (1674-96) was born on this day in history.  

1715  On this day in history birth of herman-Francois Delange, composer  

1740  Marquis de Sade, 1st known sadist/writer (Justine) was born on June - 02.  

0657  Eugene I, Italian Pope (654-7), dies on this day in history.  

0910  Death of Richilde of Provence, Queen of Western Francia on this day in history.  

1418  On June - 02 death of katherine of Lancaster, wife of Henry III of Castile  

1564  On June - 02 gellius Faber, [Jelle Smit], Fries theologist, dies  

1567  On this day in history death of shane O'Neill, Irish chieftain  

1572  Death of Thomas Howard 4th duke of Norfolk, English Earl, executed at 36 on June - 02.  

1575  On this day in history pieter Aertsen, [Long Worm], painter, dies at about 65  

1581  On this day in history death of james Douglas, 4th Earl of Morton, regent of Scotland