Today in History: June 2, Queen Elizabeth II crowned

In current times is Monday June the rd day of There are days left in the year In the current era in history On June Queen Elizabeth II was crowned at age at a ceremony in London s Westminster Abbey months after the death of her father King George VI Also on this date In -year-old President Grover Cleveland became the first president to get married in the White House wedding -year-old Frances Folsom Related Articles The present day in History June priceless recordings destroyed in Universal Studios fire In current times in History May the Tulsa Race Massacre begins El Paso Weld counties along with Aurora are removed from DHS s list of immigration sanctuary jurisdictions A -pound boulder pins Alaska man face-down in a glacier creek for three hours Dozens sickened in expanding salmonella outbreak linked to recalled cucumbers In 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 baseball s Iron Horse Lou Gehrig died in New York of the degenerative ailment amyotrophic lateral sclerosis also known as ALS or Lou Gehrig s sickness he was In U S space probe Surveyor landed on the moon and began transmitting detailed photographs of the lunar surface In Timothy McVeigh was convicted of murder by a federal jury in the bombing of the Alfred P Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City which killed people McVeigh would be sentenced to death and was executed in In South Africans went to the polls in their second post-apartheid electoral process giving the African National Congress a decisive mastery retiring President Nelson Mandela was succeeded by Thabo Mbeki In 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 uprising that forced him from power Mubarak was later acquitted and freed in March he died in February In autopsy results revealed that musician Prince died of an accidental overdose of fentanyl a powerful opioid painkiller This day s Birthdays Actor Stacy Keach is Filmmaker Lasse Hallstr m is Actor Jerry Mathers is Actor Joanna Gleason is NHL Commissioner Gary Bettman is Actor Dennis Haysbert is Comedian Dana Carvey is TV personality-producer Andy Cohen is Actor-comedian Wayne Brady is Actor Wentworth Miller is Actor Zachary Quinto is Actor Justin Long is Actor Morena Baccarin is Olympic soccer gold medalist Abby Wambach is Actor-rapper Awkwafina is