📜 This Day in History

June 2

• 1802Henry Hacking killed the Aboriginal Australian resistance fighter Pemulwuy after Philip Gidley King ordered that he be brought in dead or alive.
• 1886The wedding of Grover Cleveland and Frances Folsom took place in the White House, in the only time that a U.S. president has married in the building.
• 1955The USSR and Yugoslavia sign the Belgrade declaration, legitimising different interpretations of Marxism in non-Soviet countries.
• 1967Benno Ohnesorg, a German university student, was killed in West Berlin while protesting against the visit of Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi of Iran; the anarchist militant 2 June Movement was later named after the incident.
• 1995Bosnian War: U.S. Air Force captain Scott O'Grady was shot down while patrolling the NATO no-fly zone over Bosnia, but ejected safely and was rescued six days later.
• 2023A collision between two passenger trains and a parked freight train near the city of Balasore, Odisha, in eastern India resulted in 296 deaths and more than 1,200 people injured.

Born on this day

• 1740Marquis de Sade, French philosopher and politician (died 1814)
• 1835Pope Pius X (died 1914)
• 1840Thomas Hardy, English novelist and poet (died 1928)
• 1857Karl Adolph Gjellerup, Danish author and poet, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1919)