TUESDAY, JUNE 2, 2020

1851-First U.S. alcohol prohibition law enacted (Maine)

1924-US citizenship granted to all American Indians

1946-Italian plebiscite chooses republic over monarchy (National Day)

1949-Transjordan renamed Jordan

1953-Coronation of Queen Elizabeth II in Westminster Abbey

1959-Allen Ginsberg writes his poem "Lysergic Acid," SF

1965-Second of two cyclones in less than a month kills 35,000 in Ganges River, India

1966-U.S. Surveyor 1 lands in Oceanus Procellarum on the Moon; first lunar soft-landing

1967-Race riots in Roxbury section of Boston

1969-Australian aircraft carrier "Melbourne" slices U.S. destroyer in half

1979-John Paul II becomes first pope to visit a communist country (Poland)

1979-NASA launches space vehicle S-198

1989-Rolling Stones Bill Wyman marries Mandy Smith