June 2nd

King Gaiseric & the Vandals sack Rome - Rome looted for 14 days.

Ousted Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak was sentenced to life in prison after a court convicted him on charges of complicity in the killing of protesters during the 2011 uprising that forced him from power.

Former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney announced his bid for the Republican presidential nomination.

Detroit Tigers pitcher Armando Galarraga lost his bid for a perfect game against Cleveland with two outs in the ninth inning on a call that first base umpire Jim Joyce later admitted he'd blown.

The European Space Agency launched the Mars Express probe. Contact with the lander Beagle 2 was lost in December.

Voters in California passed Proposition 227, requiring that all schoolchildren be taught in English.

Timothy McVeigh was convicted of murder and conspiracy in the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing that killed 168 people.

10,000 Chinese soldiers are blocked by 100,000 citizens protecting students demonstrating for democracy in Tiananmen Square, Beijing.

The Japanese video arcade game "Donkey Kong" made its U.S. debut.

Pope John Paul II arrived in his native Poland on the first visit by a pope to a Communist country.

Benno Ohnesorg is killed. A police officer shot the unarmed German student at a demonstration against the state visit of the controversial Shah of Iran. It later ruled that the shooting was not an act of self-defense. The event was pivotal for the foundation of the terrorist organization “Movement 2 June”.

Queen Elizabeth II of Britain was crowned in Westminster Abbey.

In Italy, a plebiscite rejected the monarchy in favor of a republic.

Baseball great, Lou Gehrig died of Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis, ALS, a rare type of paralysis now referred to as Lou Gehrig's disease.

Babe Ruth, 40, announces his retirement as a player.

Congress granted U.S. citizenship to all American Indians.

Mark Twain was quoted by the New York Journal as saying "the report of my death was an exaggeration.".

Guglielmo Marconi applies to patent the radio, accepted 2 July 1897.

President Grover Cleveland, 49, married Frances Folsom, 21, in a White House ceremony.

Robert E. Lee takes command of Confederate armies of North Virgin during US Civil War.

Maine became the first state to enact a law prohibiting alcohol.

Felix Mendelssohn's Wedding March is used at a wedding for the first time. Dorothy Carew and Tom Daniel were the first to use the iconic piece for their wedding ceremony. The event that made the work world famous was the wedding of Victoria, Princess Royal and Prince Frederick William of Prussia in 1858.