June 2 is the 153th day of the year (154th in leap years) according to the Gregorian calendar. There are 212 days remaining until the end of the year.

Railways

2 June 1914 opens Baghdad-Sumike (62 km) line on Anatolian Baghdad Railway
2 June 1944 Borrowing was made with the law number 4057 for the railway from Diyarbakır and Elazığ to Iran and Iraq. On July 18, 1944, with the additional law numbered 4625, the authority was increased from 35 to 85 million.

Events

455 - Vandals enter Rome and sack the city for two weeks.
662 – 3 of the Greek islands are destroyed by an earthquake.
1328 – An earthquake in the Philippines destroyed 9 islands and islets.
1475 – Turkish armies under the command of Gedik Ahmet Pasha landed on the shores of the Crimean Peninsula.
1793 - The Jacobins take power in France, led by Maximillian Robespierre.
1851 - Prohibition in America began with the practice in the state of Maine.
1889 – The secret organization called İttihâd-ı Osmanî Cemiyeti, which is accepted as the forerunner of the Committee of Union and Progress, was founded.
1920 – The liberation of Kozan from enemy occupation.
1924 - The United States Congress granted the right to vote to all Native Americans born in the country. It wasn't until 1948 that some states implemented the suffrage for Natives.
1935 – For the first time in Turkey, a public holiday was started on Sunday.
1941 – With the amendment made in Article 526 of the Turkish Penal Code, those who recite azan and iqamah in Arabic were punished.
1946 - The monarchy is abolished in Italy.
1953 – Queen of the United Kingdom II. Elizabeth was crowned.
1964 – The Palestine Liberation Organization is established, which aims to establish a democratic, secular and national Palestinian State, bringing together various national organizations. Yasser Arafat became the head of the organization on February 3, 1968.
1966 – Voiced by Frank Sinatra Strangers in the Night The song peaked at #1 on the UK Singles Chart.
1966 - De Valera becomes President of Ireland.
1966 – Greeks in Cyprus banned entry and exit from the Turkish part of Nicosia.
1984 - Indian army launched an attack on Sikhs who wanted to establish a religious district.
1992 – A referendum was held in Denmark. The Maastricht Treaty, which determined the principles of the European Union, was rejected.
1995 – Kilis, Karabuk and Yalova became provinces.
1997 – The Susurluk Case started at the Istanbul State Security Court.
2001 – In the Philippines, Abu Sayyaf militants take 200 hostage on the island of Basilan.
2001 - The King and Queen of Nepal were shot dead by the sons of the Prince.

Births

1305 – Ebu Said Bahadır, son of Olcaytu and 9th ruler of the Ilkhanid State (d. 1335)
1535 – XI. Leo, Elected pope on April 1, 1605, and served as Pope for 27 days until his death on April 1605, 26 (d. 1605)
1731 – Martha Washington, wife of George Washington and first prime minister of the United States (d. 1802)
1740 – Marquis de Sade, French writer (d. 1814)
1817 – Jacques Pucheran, French zoologist (d. 1895)
1835 – Pius X, pope from August 4, 1903 to August 20, 1914 (d. 1914)
1840 – Thomas Hardy, English writer (d. 1928)
1857 – Edward Elgar, English composer (d. 1934)
1857 – Karl Adolph Gjellerup, Danish poet, author, and Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1919)
1899 – Lotte Reiniger, German film director and pioneer of silhouette animation (d. 1981)
1904 – Johnny Weissmuller, Romanian-American athlete and actor (d. 1984)
1905 – Leonid Kvasnikov, Russian chemical engineer and spy
1913 – Emin Barın, Turkish calligrapher and bookbinding artist (d. 1987)
1920 – Marcel Reich-Ranicki, Polish-born German literary critic (d. 2013)
1923 – Lloyd Shapley, American mathematician and economist (d. 2016)
1926 – Milo O'Shea, Irish actor (d. 2013)
1930 – Pete Conrad, American NASA astronaut, aeronautical engineer, naval officer, aviator, and test pilot (d. 1999)
1931 – Jacques Garelli, French philosopher and poet (d. 2014)
1931 – Viktor Tsaryov, Russian-born Soviet national football player (d. 2017)
1934 - Karl-Heinz Feldkamp, German football player
1935 – Dimitri Kitsikis, Greek Turcologist (d. 2021)
1935 – Carol Shields, Canadian-American novelist and short story writer (d. 2003)
1937 – Sally Kellerman, American actress and comedian (d. 2022)
1937 – Klaus-Michael Kühne, German businessman
1937 – Robert Paul, Canadian ice skater
1940 – II. Constantine, last king of Greece from 1964-1973
1941 – Ünal Aysal, Turkish businessman and former President of Galatasaray SK
1941 – Stacy Keach, American actress and narrator
1944 – Marvin Hamlisch, American composer and conductor (d. 2012)
1946 – Lasse Hallström, Swedish film director
1948 – Recep Yazıcıoğlu, Turkish district governor and governor (d. 2003)
1949 - Tommy Mandel, American musician
1950 - Joanna Gleason, Canadian actress
1951 – Gilbert Baker, American LGBT rights activist and flag designer (d. 2017)
1952 – Mehmet Yurdadon, Turkish athlete
1953 – Craig Stadler, american golfer
1954 – E. Allen Emerson, American computer scientist
1955 – Danilo Lim, Filipino soldier and politician (d. 2021)
1957 – Mark Lawrenson, Irish football player
1958 – Lex Luger, American wrestler
1960 – Olga Bondarenko, Soviet athlete
1962 – Ahmet Arslan, Turkish politician
1962 – Sibylle Berg, German writer
1962 – Joseph Hannesschläger, German actor and musician (d. 2020)
1966 – Eda Özülkü, Turkish pop music artist
1966 – Turgut Dibek, Turkish politician
1967 – Brea Lynn, American actress
1968 – Andy Cohen, American talk show and radio host, writer, and producer
1969 – Paulo Sérgio, Brazilian football player
1970 – B-Real, Cuban and Mexican-American rap artist and actor
1970 – Gökhan Kırdar, Turkish musician
1972 – Wentworth Miller, American actor
1973 – Kevin Feige, American film and television producer
1975 – Ersin Doğru, Turkish presenter and sportscaster
1976 – Earl Boykins, retired American basketball player
1977 – AJ Styles, American professional wrestler
1977 – Zachary Quinto, American actor
1978 – Justin Long, American actor
1978 Nikki Cox, American actress
1978 – Yi So-yeon, Korean astronaut
1979 – Morena Baccarin, Brazilian-American actress
1980 – Bobby Simmons, American professional basketball player
1980 – Abby Wambach, American national football player
1980 – Tomasz Wróblewski, Polish extreme metal musician
1981 – Nikolay Davidenko, Russian tennis player
1982 - Jewel Staite, Canadian actress
1985 – Miyuki Sawashiro, Japanese voice actor and actress
1986 – Atalay Filiz, Turkish murderer
1987 – Matthew Coma, American musician and Singer-songwriter
1987 – Sonakshi Sinha, Indian Bollywood actress
1987 – Darin Zanyar, Swedish singer
1988 – Sergio Aguero, Argentine football player
1988 – Umut Koçin, Turkish football player
1989 – Freddy Adu, Ghana-born US citizen football player
1989 – Liviu Antal, Romanian national football player
1990 – Oliver Baumann, German goalkeeper
1992 – Pajtim Kasami, Swiss football player
1993 – Adam Taggart, Australian national football player
1993 – Melis Sezer, Turkish national tennis player

Deaths

1098 – Yağı-Sayan, Turkish soldier
1556 – Francesco Venier, 11st ducal president of the Republic of Venice with the title of “Doç” between 1554 June 2 and 1556 June 81 (b. 1489)
1716 – Ogata Kōrin, Japanese landscape illustrator, polisher, painter, and textile designer (b. 1663)
1835 – François Étienne Kellermann, French general (b. 1770)
1881 – Émile Littré, French physician, philosopher, linguist, and politician (b. 1801)
1882 – Giuseppe Garibaldi, Italian revolutionary and statesman (b. 1807)
1927 – Avni Lifij, Turkish painter (b. 1886)
1941 – Lou Gehrig, American baseball player (b. 1903)
1947 – Jesse W. Reno, American inventor and engineer (b. 1861)
1948 – Viktor Brack, German Nazi war criminal (b. 1904)
1948 – Karl Brandt, German physician and Nazi war criminal (b. 1904)
1948 – Karl Gebhardt, German Nazi medical doctor (b. 1897)
1948 – Wolfram Sievers, German Nazi war criminal (b. 1905)
1951 – Alain, French philosopher (b. 1868)
1970 – Orhan Kemal, Turkish writer (b. 1914)
1970 - Albert Lamorisse, French film director, producer and screenwriter (b. 1922)
1970 – Bruce McLaren, New Zealand Formula 1 driver and founder of Team McLaren (b. 1937)
1970 – Giuseppe Ungaretti, Italian modernist poet, journalist, essayist, critic, and academic (b. 1888)
1977 – Stephen Boyd, Irish-American actor (b. 1931)
1978 – Beşir Balcıoğlu, Turkish diplomat and retired ambassador (as a result of the assassination of the Armenian terrorist organization ASALA) (b. 1909)
1978 – Santiago Bernabéu, Spanish sportsman (b. 1895)
1982 – Fazal Divine Chaudhri, Pakistani politician (b. 1904)
1983 – Stan Rogers, Canadian folk songwriter (b. 1949)
1987 – Andrés Segovia, Spanish guitarist (b. 1893)
1988 – Necip Cihanov, Tatar composer, teacher and statesman (b. 1911)
1988 – Raj Kapoor, Indian film actor and director (b. 1924)
1989 – Ruhollah Khomeini, Iranian politician and Shiite cleric (b. 1902)
1990 – Rex Harrison, English actor and winner of the Academy Award for Best Actor (b. 1908)
1991 – Ahmed Arif, Turkish poet (b. 1927)
1994 – David Stove, Australian philosopher (b. 1927)
1996 – Leon Garfield, English fiction writer (b. 1921)
1998 – Sohrab Shahid Sales, Iranian director (b. 1944)
2005 – Melita Norwood, The Spy (b. 1912)
2008 – Cevher Özden (Banker Kastelli), Turkish businessman and banker (b. 1933)
2009 – David Eddings, American author (b. 1931)
2012 – Kathryn Joosten, American actress (b. 1939)
2014 – Gennadi Gusarov, Russian origin Soviet former national football player and coach (b. 1937)
2015 – Besim Üstünel, Turkish academic and politician (b. 1927)
2015 – Irwin Rose, American biologist (b. 1926)
2016 – Tom Kibble, British scientist (b. 1932)
2016 – Andrzej Niemczyk, Polish former volleyball player and coach (b. 1944)
2017 – Peter Sallis, English actor, voice actor, and comedian (b. 1921)
2017 – Sonja Sutter, German film and television actress (b. 1931)
2017 – Jeffrey Tate, British conductor (b. 1943)
2018 – Paul D. Boyer, American chemist and Nobel Prize laureate in Chemistry (b. 1918)
2018 – Tony Morphett, Australian screenwriter (b. 1938)
2018 – Emil Wolf, Czech-American physicist (b. 1922)
2019 – Momtazuddin Ahmed, Bangladeshi playwright and educator (b. 1935)
2019 – Alistair Browning, New Zealand actor (b. 1954)
2019 – Walter Lübcke, German politician and economist (b. 1953)
2019 – Mart Nutt, Estonian politician and historian (b. 1962)
2020 – Gulam Murtaza Baloch, Pakistani politician (b. 1964)
2020 – Mary Pat Gleason, American actress and television writer (b. 1950)
2020 – Chris Trousdale, American singer and actor (b. 1985)
2020 – Ahmet Tekdal, Turkish politician and bureaucrat (b. 1931)
2020 – Wes Unseld, former American basketball player (b. 1946)
2021 – Odero Gon, Italian football player (b. 1933)
2021 – Linah Mohohlo, Botswana academic, banker, politician and economist (b. 1952)
2021 – Hasan Saltık, Zaza-born Turkish music producer and founder of “Kalan Music” (b. 1964)
2022 – Uri Zohar, Israeli rabbi, film director, actor, writer, and comedian (b. 1935)