This Day In History

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  Interesting things that have happened, and people born and died on this date 
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                               By Scott Labrecque 
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Births:  
 
06/02/1491 Henry VIII, King of England (1509-47) 
06/02/1504 George/Joris van Egmont, bishop of Utrecht 
06/02/1535 Leo XI, [Alessandro O de' Medici], Italy, Pope (1605) 
06/02/1577 Giovanni Righi, composer 
06/02/1614 Benjamin Rogers, composer 
06/02/1624 Jan III Sobieski, King of Poland (1674-96) 
06/02/1715 Herman-Francois Delange, composer 
06/02/1740 Marquis de Sade, 1st known sadist/writer (Justine) 
06/02/1751 Antoni Weinert, composer 
06/02/1758 Cornelis RT Krayenhoff, cartographer 
06/02/1759 Jan Ekels de Jonge, painter 
06/02/1777 Christian Traugott Tag, composer 
06/02/1802 Adrian van der Hoop Jr, poet/critic 
06/02/1806 Isaac Strauss, composer 
06/02/1807 Robert Fuhrer, composer 
06/02/1815 Philip Kearny, Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1862 
06/02/1821 Ion Bratianu, (Lib), premier of Romania (1876-88) 
06/02/1828 James Cutler Dunn Parker, composer 
06/02/1830 Olivier Metra, composer 
06/02/1831 Benjamin Hardin Helm, Brig General (Confederate Army), died in 1863 
06/02/1831 Jan G Palm, Cura‡aos choir master/composer 
06/02/1835 Pius X, [Giuseppe Sarto], 257th Roman Catholic pope (1903-14) 
06/02/1840 Thomas Hardy, England, poet/novelist (Far from the Madding Crowd) 
06/02/1849 Paul-Albert Besnard, French painter/graphic artist (La femme) 
06/02/1857 Edward Elgar, Broadheath, England, composer (Pomp & Circumstance) 
06/02/1857 Edward William Elgar, composer 
06/02/1857 Karl Adolph Gjellerup, Denmark, poet (Poutnici Svetem, Nobel 1917) 
06/02/1858 Harry Rowe Shelley, composer 
06/02/1863 Paul Felix Weingartner, Germany, conductor (Zara, Dalmatia) 
06/02/1864 Ben Webster, actor (Old Curiosity Shop) 
06/02/1876 Hakon Borresen, composer 
06/02/1883 Bokke RS Pollema, Fries journalist/author (Lock of Hair) 
06/02/1890 Hedda Hopper [Elda Furry], US, gossip columnist (From Under My Hat) 
06/02/1891 Ernst Kunz, composer 
06/02/1894 Erich R”mer, Germany, ice hockey player (Olympic-bronze-1932) 
06/02/1898 G‚o[rges M] Norge, French/Belgian writer (Les oignons) 
06/02/1899 Royal Beal, actor (Death of a Salesman) 
06/02/1900 David Wynne, composer 
06/02/1901 Michael Todd, producer (Around the World in 80 Days) 
06/02/1904 John Weissmuller, actor (Tarzan)/100m swimmer (Olympic-gold-1924, 28

06/02/1909 Robin Orr, composer 
06/02/1913 Barbara Pym, romantic author (Very Private Eye) 
06/02/1913 Bert Farber, Bkln NY, orch leader (Arthur Gudfrey, Vic Damone) 
06/02/1915 Lester del Rey, US, sci-fi author (Moon Trilogy, Marooned on Mars) 
06/02/1915 Robert Moffat Palmer, composer 
06/02/1915 Walter Tetley, animation voice (Sherman-Bullwinkle Show) 
06/02/1917 Max Showalter, Caldwell Ks, actor/composer (Stockard Channing Show) 
06/02/1920 Yolande Donlan, actress (Jigsaw, Expresso Bongo, Penny Princess) 
06/02/1922 Juan A Bardem, Spanish director/critic (C¢micos) 
06/02/1926 Milo O'Shea, Ireland, actor (Barbarella, Romeo & Juliet) 
06/02/1927 Phillip Burton, historian (Vanishing Eagles) 
06/02/1929 Alcides Lanza, composer 
06/02/1929 Frederic Devreese, composer 
06/02/1930 Charles Pete Conrad Jr, Phila, USN/astro (Gem 5 11, Ap 12, Skylab 2)

06/02/1931 Larry Jackson, baseball player 
06/02/1932 Barry Levinson, director (Rainman) 
06/02/1932 Sammy Turner, Patterson, NJ, singer (Lavender Blue Moods) 
06/02/1933 Bob Rozario, Shanghai China, orch leader (Tony Orlando, Marie) 
06/02/1933 Jerry Lumpe, baseball player 
06/02/1934 Johnny Carter, US singer (Give your baby a standing ovation) 
06/02/1936 Sally Kellerman, Long Beach Cal, actress (M*A*S*H, Back to School) 
06/02/1936 Vladimir Golubnichy, USSR, 20K walker (Olympic-gold-1960, 68) 
06/02/1938 Frits Wols, [Eugene W Wong Loi Sing], Suriname, sec-gen (UNESCO) 
06/02/1938 Gene Michael, baseball shortstop/manager/general manger (NY Yankees)

06/02/1939 Charles Miller, rock flutist/saxophonist (War) 
06/02/1940 Chris Bernau, actor (Guiding Light) 
06/02/1940 Constantine II, deposed King of Greece (1964-73) 
06/02/1940 Horace Clarke, baseball 2nd baseman (NY Yankees) 
06/02/1940 Jim Maloney, baseball pitcher 
06/02/1941 Charlie Watts, drummer (Rolling Stones-Brown Sugar) 
06/02/1941 Oda Mayumi, Tokyo, resident artist at the Green Gulch Zen Center 
06/02/1941 Stacy Keach, Savannah Ga, actor (Mickey Spillane's Mike Hammer) 
06/02/1941 William Guest, Atlanta Ga, singer (Gladys Knight Show) 
06/02/1943 Charles Haid, SF Ca, actor (Andy Renko-Hill St Blues, Altered States

06/02/1943 John Lilipaly, Dutch 2nd Chamber member (PvdA) 
06/02/1943 Maarten B Engwirda, Dutch 2nd Chamber member (D66) 
06/02/1944 Garo Yepremian, NFL place kicker (Miami Dolphins) 
06/02/1944 Marvin Hamlisch, US, composer/pianist (Sting, Chorus Line) 
06/02/1944 Poul Jensen, Denmark, yachting (Olympic-gold-1976, 80) 
06/02/1946 Roger Freed, baseball player 
06/02/1948 Albert Innaurato, Phila, playwright/director (Age in Soho) 
06/02/1948 Jerry Mathers, Sioux City Iowa, actor (Beaver-Leave It To Beaver) 
06/02/1950 Chubby Tavares, rocker (Tavares) 
06/02/1950 Joanna Gleason, Toronto Canada, actress (Morgan-Hello Larry) 
06/02/1951 Steve Brookins, rocker (.38 Special) 
06/02/1953 Craig Stadler, San Diego Calif, PGA golfer (Masters 1982) 
06/02/1955 Dana Carvey, Missoula Montana, comedian (Church Lady-SNL) 
06/02/1955 Gary Grimes, SF, actor (Summer of '42, Class of '44) 
06/02/1958 Lex Lugar, [Larry Pfohl], Atlanta Ga, wrestler (WWF/WCW/NWA) 
06/02/1959 Lydia Lunch, US singer/poetess (Teenage Jesus, Jerks) 
06/02/1960 Tony Hadley, rocker (Spandau Ballet-True) 
06/02/1961 John Cameroon, guitarist (Claw Boys Claw) 
06/02/1962 Darnell Coles, baseball player 
06/02/1963 Brian Harvey, baseball umpire 
06/02/1967 Mike Stanton, baseball player 
06/02/1969 Kurt Abbott, baseball player 
06/02/1970 Mike Kelly, baseball player 
06/02/1976 Adrian Carlos Olivares, Mexico City, singer (Menudo-Cannonball) 
 
 
Deaths:  
 
06/02/ 657 Eugene I, Italian Pope (654-7), dies 
06/02/1564 Gellius Faber, [Jelle Smit], Fries theologist, dies 
06/02/1575 Pieter Aertsen, [Long Worm], painter, dies at about 65 
06/02/1597 Diederik Sonoy, German/Neth governor of Northern quarter, dies at 67

06/02/1632 Ernst Casimir, count of Nassau-Dietz/mayor of Friesland, dies at 58 
06/02/1639 Floris II van Pallandt, earl of Culemborg/politician, dies at 62 
06/02/1676 ... d'ybarra, Spanish (admiral?), dies in battle 
06/02/1676 ... de Cock, vice-admiral, dies in battle 
06/02/1676 ... de Haen, vice-admiral, dies in battle 
06/02/1678 Pieter the Great, regent/diplomat, dies at 63 
06/02/1750 Johann Valentin Rathgeber, German composer, dies at 68 
06/02/1812 John W de Winter, Dutch vice-adm, dies at battle at Kamperduin at 51

06/02/1839 W˜nand YY Nu˜en, painter/lithographer (Wrecked), dies at 26 
06/02/1864 George Pierce Doles, US businessman/Confed brig-general, dies at 34 
06/02/1865 John E Feisser, founder (1st Dutch baptist church), dies at 59 
06/02/1873 Francois Hainl, composer, dies at 65 
06/02/1882 Guiseppi Garibaldi, Italian rebel leader, dies at 74 
06/02/1896 Gerhard Rohlfs, German explorer (Abbsynia/Ethiopia), dies 
06/02/1901 James A Herne, [J Aherne], US playwright (Margaret Fleming), dies 
06/02/1904 Redvers H Buller, English general, dies 
06/02/1927 Freidrich Hegar, composer, dies at 85 
06/02/1937 Louis Vierne, composer, dies at 66 
06/02/1940 Willem E Roelofs, painter/cartoonist, dies 
06/02/1941 Lou Gehrig, Yankee 1st baseman, dies at 37 of ALS in Riverdale NY 
06/02/1943 Leslie Howard, actor (Romeo & Juliet), Nazis shot down his plane at 

06/02/1947 Hermann Darewsky, composer, dies at 64 
06/02/1949 Dynam-Victor Fumet, composer, dies at 82 
06/02/1949 Ernest Ford, composer, dies at 91 
06/02/1950 Stanislas Bizot, French checker player (world champ 1925), dies at 7

06/02/1951 Alain, [Emile-Auguste Chartier], French philosopher, dies at 83 
06/02/1951 John Erskine, US writer/poet/pianist (Venus Love Goddess), dies at 7

06/02/1956 Jean Hersholt, actress (Emma, Grand Hotel, Greed), dies at 69 
06/02/1961 George S Kaufman, playwright/dir/pulitzer prize winner, dies at 72 
06/02/1961 Peter H 'Paul' Huf, actor/director (Dutch Comedy), dies at 70 
06/02/1962 Franc S Finzgar, Slovic writer (Service Girls), dies 
06/02/1967 Zamah Cunningham, actress (Menosha the Magnificent), dies at 74 
06/02/1971 Charles de Keukeleire, Belgian director (Evil Eye), dies at 66 
06/02/1972 Franz Philipp, composer, dies at 81 
06/02/1974 Elliott Sullivan, actor (Sergeant), dies at 66 
06/02/1975 Eisaku Sato, premier of Japan, dies at 74 
06/02/1976 Alan Dewitt, actor (Mr Tyler-It's About Time), dies at 52 
06/02/1977 Forrest Lewis, actor (Great Gildersleeve, Ichabod & Me), dies at 77 
06/02/1977 Henri D Gagnebin, Swiss organist/composer, dies at 91 
06/02/1977 Stephen Boyd, actor (Fantastic Voyage, Ben-Hur, Lisa), dies at 48 
06/02/1979 Jim Hutton, actor (Ellery Queen), dies at 45 
06/02/1986 Daniel Sternefeld, Belgian conductor/composer (Elegie), dies at 80 
06/02/1987 Andr‚s Segovia, Spanish guitarist, dies at 94 
06/02/1987 Sammy Kaye, orch leader (Sammy Kaye Show), dies at 77 
06/02/1988 Horace A Hildreth, (Gov-Maine, 1945-49), dies at 85 
06/02/1990 Frederick Mellinger, founder of Fredericks of Hollywood, dies at 76 
06/02/1990 Rex Harrison, actor (My Fair Lady), dies at 82 of cancer 
06/02/1990 Robert Noyce, co-inventor (semi-conductor)/founded Intel, dies 
06/02/1990 Stuart Hall, actor (Cavalcade, Dawn Patrol), dies 
06/02/1992 Philip Dunne, founder of Screen Writers Guild, dies at 84 of cancer 
06/02/1993 French JFM of Thiel, Dutch 2nd chamber chairman (1963-72), dies at 8

06/02/1993 Johnny Mize, baseball player, dies at 80 
 
 
Significant Events:  
 
06/02/ 455 Gaiseric & Vandals sack Rome 
06/02/ 575 Benedict I begins his reign as Catholic Pope 
06/02/ 657 St Eugene I ends his reign as Catholic Pope 
06/02/1129 Fulco V's son Godfried marries king Henry I's daughter Mathildis 
06/02/1625 Prince Frederik Henry sworn in as viceroy of Holland/Zealand 
06/02/1627 English king Charles I establishes Guyana Company 
06/02/1633 Prince Frederik Henry conquerors fort Rhine at Cologne 
06/02/1676 Battle at Palermo: French beats Dutch/Spanish fleet 
06/02/1780 Anti Catholic demonstration attacks parliament in London 
06/02/1797 1st ascent of 'Great Mountain' (4,622') in Adirondack NY (C Broadhea

06/02/1834 5th national black convention meet (NYC) 
06/02/1835 P.T. Barnum & his circus begin 1st tour of US 
06/02/1851 1st US alcohol prohibition law enacted (Maine) 
06/02/1857 James Gibbs, Va., patents chain-stitch single-thread sewing machine 
06/02/1858 Donati Comet 1st seen named after it's discoverer 
06/02/1862 Gen Robert E Lee takes command of Confederate armies of E VA & NC 
06/02/1862 Raid at Early's: Maryland towards Washington DC 
06/02/1863 Harriet Tubman leads Union guerillas into Maryland, freeing slaves 
06/02/1864 Battle of Cold Harbour, Day 2 
06/02/1865 At Galveston, Kirby-Smith surrenders Trans-Mississippi Dept 
06/02/1866 Renegade Irish Fenians surrender to US forces 
06/02/1873 Ground broken on Clay St (SF) for world's 1st cable railroad 
06/02/1875 James Augustine Healey became 1st Black Catholic Bishop in US 
06/02/1881 Haarlem-Zandvoort Railway opens 
06/02/1883 1st night baseball under lights, Ft Wayne Indiana 
06/02/1883 Chicago's 'El' opens to traffic 
06/02/1886 Grover Cleveland is 1st to wed during presidency (Frances Folsom) 
06/02/1899 Black Americans observed day of fasting to protest lynchings 
06/02/1902 2nd statewide initiative & referendum law adopted, in Oregon 
06/02/1903 Netherlands Korfball League forms 
06/02/1903 Pirates win a triple header from Dodgers 
06/02/1910 1st roundtrip flight over English Channel (C.S. Rolls, England) 
06/02/1910 Pygmies discovered in Dutch New Guinea 
06/02/1913 1st strike settlement mediated by US Dep't of Labor-RR clerks 
06/02/1913 Demonstrations for general voting right in Neth 
06/02/1914 Glenn Curtiss flies his Langley Aerodrome 
06/02/1919 Pulitzer prize awarded to Carl Sandburg (Cornhuskers) 
06/02/1920 Pulitzer prize awarded to Eugene O'Neill (Beyond the Horizon) 
06/02/1922 Suffy McInnis (1st base) ends an errorless string of 1,700 chances 
06/02/1924 US citizenship granted to all American Indians 
06/02/1925 NY Yankee Lou Gehrig begins his 2,130 consecutive game streak 
06/02/1930 1st baby born on a vessel passing through Panama Canal 
06/02/1930 Sarah Dickson becomes 1st woman Presbyterian elder in US, Cincinnati

06/02/1932 Franz von Papen 'Cabinet of the Baron' premieres 
06/02/1933 WNJ-AM in Newark NJ goes off the air 
06/02/1936 Gen Anastasio Somoza takes over as dictator of Nicaragua 
06/02/1940 Heavy German bombing on Dunkirk beach 
06/02/1943 99th Pursuit Squadron flies 1st combat mission (over Italy) 
06/02/1946 Italian plebiscite chooses republic over monarchy (National Day) 
06/02/1947 Hungarian premier Ferenc Nagy resigns 
06/02/1949 Transjordan renamed Jordan 
06/02/1952 650,000 metal workers go on strike in US 
06/02/1953 Coronation of Queen Elizabeth II in Westminster Abbey 
06/02/1954 John Costello (Cons) becomes premier of Ireland 
06/02/1957 US TV interviews Khrushchev 
06/02/1958 Alan Freed joins WABC (NYC) radio 
06/02/1959 Allen Ginsberg writes his poem 'Lysergic Acid,' SF 
06/02/1964 Lal Bahadur Sjastri elected premier of India 
06/02/1964 Rolling Stones 1st US concert tour debuts in Lynn, Mass 
06/02/1965 2nd of 2 cyclones in less than a month kills 35,000 (Ganges R India)

06/02/1966 US Surveyor 1 lands in Oceanus Procellarum; 1st lunar soft-landing 
06/02/1967 Race riots in Roxbury section of Boston 
06/02/1968 WBLG (now WTVQ) TV channel 62 in Lexington, KY (ABC) 1st broadcast 
06/02/1971 Ajax wins Europe Cup 
06/02/1972 Dion & the Belmonts reunion concert at Madison Square Garden 
06/02/1974 Mali adopts constitution 
06/02/1974 Malta's constitution goes into effect 
06/02/1975 1st time snow fell in London in June 
06/02/1975 James A Healy, 1st black Roman Catholic bishop, consecrated (Maine) 
06/02/1976 East-Timor People's Assembly accepts annexation through Indonesia 
06/02/1977 NJ allows casino gambling in Atlantic City 
06/02/1979 John Paul II becomes 1st pope to visit a communist country (Poland) 
06/02/1979 NASA launches space vehicle S-198 
06/02/1979 Pope John Paul II visits Poland 
06/02/1981 Barbara Walters asks Katharine Hepburn what kind of tree she would b

06/02/1983 Toilet catches fire on Air Canada's DC-9, 23 die at Cincinnati 
06/02/1984 Actress Jill Ireland has a radical masectomy 
06/02/1984 B A Skiff discovers asteroid #3617 
06/02/1984 Flight readiness firing of Discovery's main engines 
06/02/1985 Andreas Papandreous PASOK-party wins election in Greece 
06/02/1985 Nancy Lopez beats Alice Miller for the LPGA 
06/02/1986 NYC transit system issues a new brass with steel bullseye token 
06/02/1986 Regular TV coverage of US Senate sessions begins 
06/02/1989 14 year old Scott Isaacs spells spoliator to win 1989 Spelling Bee 
06/02/1989 Cincinnati Red Eric Davis hits for cycle 
06/02/1989 Rolling Stones Bill Wyman marries Mandy Smith 
06/02/1992 Former NY Giant Coach Bill Parcells undergoes open heart surgery 
06/02/1992 Wilson Phillips release their 2nd album 'Shadows & Light' 
06/02/1994 Chinook helicopter crashes in North Scotland (29 killed) 
  
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