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Friday June 2, 2023

June 2: Day of the Week

June 2, 2023 was the 153rd day of the year 2023 in the Gregorian calendar. There were 212 days remaining until the end of the year. The day of the week was Friday.

If you are trying to learn French then this day of the week in French is vendredi.

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Zodiac & Birthstone

Gemini is the zodiac sign of a person born on this day. Pearl is the modern birthstone for this month. Moonstone is the mystical birthstone from Tibetan origin that dates back over a thousand years.

June 2 Historical Event(s)

  • 1615
    First Récollet missionaries arrive at Quebec City, from Rouen, France.
  • 1692
    Bridget Bishop is the first person to go to trial in the Salem witch trials in Salem, Massachusetts. Found guilty, she is hanged on June 10.
  • 1835
    P. T. Barnum and his circus start their first tour of the United States.
  • 1955
    The USSR and Yugoslavia sign the Belgrade declaration and thus normalize relations between both countries, discontinued since 1948.
  • 1967
    Luis Monge is executed in Colorado’s gas chamber, in the last pre-Furman execution in the United States.
  • 1979
    Pope John Paul II first official visit to his native Poland, becoming the first Pope to visit a Communist country.
  • 1990
    The Lower Ohio Valley tornado outbreak spawns 66 confirmed tornadoes in Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, and Ohio, killing 12. Petersburg, Indiana, is the hardest-hit town in the outbreak, with 6 deaths.
  • 1997
    In Denver, Colorado, Timothy McVeigh is convicted on 15 counts of murder and conspiracy for his role in the 1995 bombing of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma.
  • 2003
    Europe launches its first voyage to another planet, Mars. The European Space Agency’s Mars Express probe launches from the Baikonur space center in Kazakhstan.
  • 2004
    Ken Jennings begins his 74-game winning streak on the syndicated game show Jeopardy!

Who were born on June 2?

  • 1865
    George Lohmann, English cricketer (d. 1901)
  • 1891
    Thurman Arnold, American attorney and jurist (d. 1969)
  • 1927
    W. Watts Biggers, American novelist and animator
  • 1935
    Carol Shields, American-born novelist (d. 2003)
  • 1950
    Joanna Gleason, Canadian actress and singer
  • 1953
    Craig Stadler, American golfer
  • 1955
    Dana Carvey, American actor
  • 1961
    Dez Cadena, American musician (Black Flag)
  • 1972
    Wentworth Miller, American actor
  • 1978
    Justin Long, American actor

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