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Historical events & facts — June 2
What happened on June 2?
On June 2, 1953, Princess Elizabeth was crowned Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom at Westminster Abbey — the first coronation ceremony in history broadcast on television. About 27 million Britons watched it on television and 11 million listened on radio. The young 27-year-old queen could not know her reign would last more than 70 years — the longest in British history.
On June 2, 1946, Italians voted in a referendum to abolish the monarchy and establish the Italian Republic. The republic won with 54% of the vote. King Umberto II, who had reigned for just 34 days, went into exile. June 2 is today Italian Republic Day. The referendum was the first in Italian history in which women could vote.
On June 2, 1875, American inventor Alexander Graham Bell unveiled in Boston the harmonic telegraph — his invention for multiple simultaneous telegraph transmission. Working to improve it, he arrived at the idea of the telephone, which he patented on March 7, 1876. Bell, together with his father-in-law and patron Gardiner Greene Hubbard, founded the Bell Telephone Company in 1877 — the seed of future AT&T.
Notable birthdays — June 2
Famous people born on June 2
Isaac van Ostade
Isaac van Ostade was a Dutch genre and landscape painter.
Edwin Way Teale
Edwin Way Teale was an American naturalist, photographer and writer. Teale's works serve as primary source material documenting environmental conditions across North America from 1930–1980. He is perhaps best known for his series The American Seasons, four books documenting over 75,000 miles (121,000 km) of automobile travel across North America following the changing seasons.
Marcel Reich-Ranicki
Marcel Reich-Ranicki was a Polish-born German literary critic and member of the informal literary association Gruppe 47. He was regarded as one of the most influential contemporary literary critics in the field of German literature and has often been called Literaturpapst in Germany.
Charlie Sifford
Charles Luther Sifford was an American professional golfer. Early in his career, he won a number of All-Negro events, winning the United Golf Association's National Negro Open six times. Later in his career, he was permitted to play on the PGA Tour, winning two events, the 1967 Greater Hartford Open and the 1969 Los Angeles Open.
John Schlee
John H. Schlee was an American professional golfer who played on the PGA Tour in the 1960s and 1970s.
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