June 2<\/p>\n
455 \u2013 Due to a perceived violation of a peace treaty, the Germanic tribe of Vandals led by their king Genseric, sack Rome.<\/p>\n
1098 \u2013 During the First Crusade, Crusader forces take the city of Antioch.<\/p>\n
1763 \u2013 After the end of the French and Indian War in the colonies, Chippewas, under Chief Pontiac capture Fort Michilimackinac\u00a0 – now Mackinaw City, Michigan.<\/p>\n
1774 \u2013Parliament in London, passes the The Quartering Act<\/em> – one of the ‘Intolerable Acts’ – for the colonies, allowing a colonial governor to house British soldiers in uninhabited houses, outbuildings, barns, or other buildings if suitable quarters are not provided.<\/p>\n 1835 \u2013 P. T. Barnum and his circus start their first tour of the U.S.<\/p>\n 1896 \u2013 Guglielmo Marconi applies for a patent for his wireless telegraph.<\/p>\n 1919 \u2013 Followers of the Italian anarchist Luigi Galleani simultaneously set off bombs in 8 separate U.S. cities killing 2 people and wounding another 2.<\/p>\n 1924 \u2013 U.S. President Calvin Coolidge signs the Indian Citizenship Act<\/em> into law, granting citizenship to all members of Indian tribes born within the territorial limits of the United States.<\/p>\n 1930 \u2013 Astronaut Pete Conrad, the 3rd man to walk on the moon, is born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.<\/p>\n 1966 \u2013 The Surveyor 1 probe lands in Oceanus Procellarum on the Moon, becoming the first U.S. spacecraft to soft land on another world.<\/p>\n 1967 \u2013 Luis Monge is executed in Colorado’s gas chamber, the last execution in the U.S. before the Supreme Court rules the death penalty unconstitutional in Furman v. Georgia <\/em>in 1972.<\/p>\n 1983 \u2013 Enroute from Dallas to Toronto, Air Canada Flight 797, a McDonnell Douglas DC-9, is forced to make an emergency landing at Cincinnati because of an in flight fire. After landing, 23 passengers aboard are killed when a flashover occurs as the plane’s doors open.<\/p>\n 1990 \u2013 The Lower Ohio Valley tornado outbreak spawns 66 confirmed tornadoes in Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, and Ohio, killing 12 people.<\/p>\n 1997 \u2013 In Denver, Timothy McVeigh is convicted on 15 counts of murder and conspiracy for his role in bombing of the Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City and sentenced to the death penalty.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" June 2 455 \u2013 Due to a perceived violation of a peace treaty, the Germanic tribe of Vandals led by their king Genseric, sack Rome. 1098 \u2013 During the First Crusade, Crusader forces take the city of Antioch. 1763 \u2013 After the end of the French and Indian War in the colonies, Chippewas, under Chief … Continue reading “”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[90],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-68413","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-today"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68413","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=68413"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68413\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":93344,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68413\/revisions\/93344"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=68413"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=68413"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=68413"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}