Today is Tuesday, June 2, the 153rd day of 2026. There are 212 days left in the year.
Today in history:
On June 2, 1953, Queen Elizabeth II was crowned at age 27 at a ceremony in London’s Westminster Abbey, 16 months after the death of her father, King George VI.
Also on this date:
In 1886, 49-year-old President Grover Cleveland became the first president to get married in the White House, wedding 21-year-old Frances Folsom.
In 1924, Congress passed, and President Calvin Coolidge signed, the Indian Citizenship Act, a measure guaranteeing full American citizenship for all Native Americans born within U.S. territorial limits.
In 1941, baseball’s “Iron Horse,” Lou Gehrig, died in New York of the degenerative disease amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, also known as ALS or Lou Gehrig’s disease; he was 37.
In 1966, U.S. space probe Surveyor 1 landed on the moon and began transmitting detailed photographs of the lunar surface.
In 1997, Timothy McVeigh was convicted of murder by a federal jury in the 1995 bombing of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City, which killed 168 people. (McVeigh would be sentenced to death and was executed in 2001.)
In 1999, South Africans went to the polls in their second post-apartheid election, giving the African National Congress a decisive victory; retiring President Nelson Mandela was succeeded by Thabo Mbeki.
In 2012, ousted Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak was sentenced to life in prison after a court convicted him on charges of complicity in the killing of protesters during the 2011 uprising that forced him from power (Mubarak was later acquitted and freed in March 2017; he died in February 2020).
In 2016, autopsy results revealed that musician Prince died of an accidental overdose of fentanyl, a powerful opioid painkiller.
In 2023, two trains derailed in eastern India, killing 275 people and injuring hundreds in Odisha state. Officials said an error in the electronic signaling system led to a passenger train wrongly changing tracks and crashing into a freight train.
Today’s Birthdays: Actor Stacy Keach is 85. Filmmaker Lasse Hallström is 80. Actor Jerry Mathers is 78. Actor Joanna Gleason is 76. NHL Commissioner Gary Bettman is 74. Actor Dennis Haysbert is 72. Comedian Dana Carvey is 71. TV personality-producer Andy Cohen is 58. Actor-comedian Wayne Brady is 53. Actor Wentworth Miller is 54. Actor Zachary Quinto is 49. Actor Justin Long is 48. Actor Morena Baccarin is 47. Olympic soccer gold medalist Abby Wambach is 46. Actor-rapper Awkwafina is 38. Actor Madison Hu is 24. Actor Jeremy Ray Taylor is 23.
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