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02 June, 2003
Europe launches its first voyage to another planet, Mars. The European Space Agency's Mars Express probe launches from the Baikonur space centre in Kazakhstan.
02 June, 1998
The CIH computer virus is discovered in Taiwan.
02 June, 1995
United States Air Force Captain Scott O'Grady's F-16 is shot down over Bosnia while patrolling the NATO no-fly zone
02 June, 1994
MI5 officers killed in helicopter crash - Twenty of Britain's top intelligence experts are killed when a RAF helicopter crashes on the Mull of Kintyre.
02 June, 1992
Denmark rejects the Maastricht Treaty by a thin margin in a national referendum
02 June, 1985
Uefa bans English clubs from Europe - English clubs are banned from playing in Europe indefinitely, after the riot at Brussels' Heysel stadium in which 39 people died.
02 June, 1979
Millions cheer as the Pope comes home - The Pope is greeted by two million people as he sets foot on his native soil of Poland.
02 June, 1975
French sex workers occupied a Lyon church in protest against excessive fines and taxes, as well as a lack of police action against violence, thereby sparking the birth of the modern sex worker rights movement.
02 June, 1967
Protests in West Berlin against the arrival of the Shah of Iran turn into riots, during which Benno Ohnesorg is killed by a police officer. His death results in the founding of the terrorist group Movement 2 June.
02 June, 1966
First US space probe lands on Moon - The United States lands a spacecraft on the Moon on its first try, but four months behind the Soviet Union.
02 June, 1965
Vietnam War: The first contingent of Australian combat troops arrives in South Vietnam.
02 June, 1955
USSR and Yugoslavia sign the Belgrade declaration and thus normalize relations between both countries, discontinued since 1948.
02 June, 1953
Queen Elizabeth takes coronation oath - Queen Elizabeth II is crowned at a coronation ceremony in Westminster Abbey in London.
02 June, 1946
Birth of the Italian Republic: In a referendum Italians decide to turn Italy from a monarchy into a Republic. After this referendum the king of Italy Umberto II di Savoia is exiled.
02 June, 1924
U.S. President Calvin Coolidge signs Indian Citizenship Act into law, granting citizenship to all Native Americans born within the territorial limits of the United States.
02 June, 1896
Guglielmo Marconi receives a patent for his newest invention: the radio.
02 June, 1886
U.S. President Grover Cleveland marries Frances Folsom in the White House, becoming the only president to wed in the executive mansion
02 June, 1793
Jean-Paul Marat recites the names of 29 people to the French National Convention. Almost all of these are guillotined, followed by 17,000 more over the course of the next year during the Reign of Terror.
02 June, 445
The Vandals enter Rome, and plunder the city for two weeks

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