What happend on 2nd June

01.06
03.06
1909

Alfred Deakin becomes Prime Minister of Australia for the third time.

1897

Mark Twain, responding to rumors that he was dead, is quoted by the New York Journal as saying, "The report of my death was an exaggeration."

1896

Guglielmo Marconi receives a patent for his newest invention: the radio.

1886

U.S. President Grover Cleveland marries Frances Folsom in the White House, becoming the only president to wed in the executive mansion.

1865

American Civil War ends

1855

The Portland Rum Riot occurs in Portland, Maine.

1848

Slavic congress in Prague begins.

1835

P.T. Barnum and his circus begins first tour of the United States.

1800

First smallpox vaccination in North America, at Trinity, Newfoundland.

1793

Jean Paul Marat recites the names of 29 people to the French National Convention. Almost all of these are guillotined, followed by 17,000 more over the course of the next year during the Reign of Terror.