Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/June 2

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 * 1805 – Napoleonic Wars: A Franco-Spanish fleet recaptured the British-held Diamond Rock, an uninhabited island at the entrance to the bay leading to Fort-de-France, Martinique.
 * 1886 – The wedding of Grover Cleveland and Frances Folsom took place in the White House, in the only time that a U.S. president has married in the building.
 * 1955 - The USSR and Yugoslavia sign the Belgrade declaration, legitimising different intepretations of Marxism in non-Soviet countries.
 * 1967 – Benno Ohnesorg, a German university student, was killed in West Berlin while protesting against the visit of Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi of Iran; the anarchist militant 2 June Movement was later named after the incident.
 * 1983 – After an emergency landing due to an in-flight fire, 23 passengers aboard Air Canada Flight 797 were killed when a flashover occurred as the aircraft's doors opened.
 * 1995 – Bosnian War: U.S. Air Force captain Scott O'Grady was shot down while patrolling the NATO no-fly zone over Bosnia, but ejected safely and was rescued six days later.
 * 2010 – A gunman carried out a shooting spree in Cumbria, England, killing 12 people and injuring 11 others before committing suicide.
 * Born/died: | Al-Muwaffaq |d|891| Bernard of Wąbrzeźno |d|1603| Rutger von Ascheberg |b|1621| Ogata Kōrin |d|1716| Daniel Pollen |b|1813| Adelaide Casely-Hayford |b|1868|  George S. Kaufman |d|1961| Abby Wambach |b|1980 | Fazal Ilahi Chaudhry |d|1982

June 2: Festa della Repubblica in Italy (1946)


 * 1802 – Henry Hacking killed the Aboriginal Australian resistance fighter Pemulwuy after Philip Gidley King ordered that he be brought in dead or alive.
 * 1919 – First Red Scare: The anarchist followers of Luigi Galleani (pictured) set off eight bombs in eight cities across the United States.
 * 1953 – Queen Elizabeth II was crowned at Westminster Abbey in London.
 * 1973 – Della Aleksander co-presents a groundbreaking episode of Open Door on transgender women's lives.
 * 2023 – A collision between two passenger trains and a parked freight train near the city of Balasore, Odisha, in eastern India resulted in 296 deaths and more than 1,200 people injured.