June 2nd
Today in America's Present Past
1763 | Indian Wars: Pontiac's Rebellion, Chippewa tribe captures Mackinaw City.
1773 | Politician John Randolph of Roanoke was born.
1774 | Intolerable Acts: Amendment to the original Quartering Act enacted.
1823 | Indian Wars: The Arikara War starts.
1835 | P. T. Barnum & his circus begin their first tour.
1851 | Maine enacts the first alcohol prohibition laws.
1855 | Portland Rum Riot breaks out in opposition to Maine’s prohibition law.
1858 | “Know-Nothing” riots in New Orleans.
1863 | Civil War: Harriet Tubman leads Union guerrillas into Maryland, freeing slaves.
1875 | Civil Rights: James Augustine Healey became the first American Black Catholic Bishop.
1883 | Chicago's elevated train system opens.
1886 | POTUS: President Grover Cleveland weds Frances Folsom.
1904 | Actor Johnny Weissmuller was born.
1907 | Author Dorothy West was born.
1924 | POTUS: Republican President Coolidge signed an act making all Native American citizens born in the United States.
1941 | Baseball Pro Lou Gehrig died.
1951 | Activist Gilbert Baker was born.
1952 | SCOTUS: Court decides Youngstown Sheet & Tube Co. v. Sawyer.
1952 | 650,000 metalworkers went on strike in the US.
1953 | Academic Cornel West was born.
1967 | A Long, hot summer of riots continues in Boston, Massachusetts.
1997 | War on Terror: Timothy McVeigh found guilty of the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing.
2008 | Musician Bo Diddley died.