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Tuesday, 2 June 2026

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12 Births
11 Events
1 Reminders
24 Total entries

★ Born on this day 12 entries

1491
King Henry the VIII (Never lost his head)...
US Politics & Government 535 yrs ago
1740
Marquis de Sade
US 286 yrs ago
1835
Pope Pius X.
US Religion 191 yrs ago
1840
Thomas Hardy, English poet and novelist.
GB Arts & Culture 186 yrs ago
1857
Sir Edward Elgar, composer (Pomp and Circumstance.)
US Arts & Culture 169 yrs ago
1904
Johnny Weissmuller (The original Tarzan).
US 122 yrs ago
1927
Phillip Burton
US 99 yrs ago
1941
Charlie Watts
US 85 yrs ago
1941
Stacey Keach, actor.
US Arts & Culture 85 yrs ago
1948
Jerry Mathers, The Beaver (leave it to him...)
US 78 yrs ago
1955
Dana Carvey, of Saturday Night Live fame (The Church Lady...)
US Religion 71 yrs ago
1978
Nikki Cox, actress ("Unhappily Ever After").
US Arts & Culture 48 yrs ago

► Events on this day 11 entries

1835
P.T. Barnum and his circus begin their first tour of the U.S.
US 191 yrs ago
1851
Maine enacts a law prohibiting alcohol.
US 175 yrs ago
1858
The Donati Comet first seen, named after its discoverer.
US Space & Astronomy 168 yrs ago
1873
Ground broken on San Francisco's Clay Street for world's first cable-powered railroad.
US Media & Broadcasting 153 yrs ago
1883
First baseball game played under electric lights in Fort Wayne, IN.
US Sport 143 yrs ago
1897
Mark Twain is quoted as saying "The report of my death was an exaggeration.
US Geography & Exploration 129 yrs ago
1910
Charles Stewart Roll flies across the English Channel.
GB Military & War 116 yrs ago
1924
Congress grants U.S. Citizenship to all American Indians.
US Politics & Government 102 yrs ago
1941
Lou Gehrig dies of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis.
US 85 yrs ago
1953
Queen Elizabeth II is crowned 16 months after the death of her father King George VI.
US Politics & Government 73 yrs ago
1966
U.S. Space Probe Surveyor I lands on the moon.
US Space & Astronomy 60 yrs ago

▶ Also today 1 entry

▶Republic (Constitution) Day, celebrated in Italy.