Today is Tuesday, June 2, the 153rd day of 2015. There are 212 days left in the year.
455 ― Gaiseric and the Vandals sack Rome
1899 ― Black Americans observed day of fasting to protest lynching
1910 ― Pygmies discovered in Dutch New Guinea
1924 ― U.S. citizenship granted to all American Indians
1946 ― Italian plebiscite chooses republic over monarchy (National Day)
1953 ― Coronation of Queen Elizabeth II in Westminster Abbey
1964 ― Rolling Stones’ first U.S. concert tour debuts in Lynn, Mass.
1966 ― U.S. Surveyor 1 lands in Oceanus Procellarum; first lunar soft-landing
1979 ― John Paul II becomes first pope to visit a communist country (Poland)
1989 ― 10,000 Chinese soldiers are blocked by 100,000 citizens protecting students demonstrating for democracy in Tiananmen Square, Beijing