Friday, June 2, 2000
History today -- 8:44 am CST, Update by The Master
- 1897: Mark Twain, 61, was quoted by the New York Journal as saying "the report of my death was an exaggeration."
- 1924: Congress grants U.S. citizenship to all American Indians.
- 1941: Lou Gehrig dies in New York of a degenerative disease, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis.
- 1946: The Italian monarchy was abolished in favor of a republic.
- 1953: Queen Elizabeth II of Britain was crowned in Westminster Abbey, 16 months after the death of her father, King George VI.
- 1966: U.S. spacecraft Surveyor I lands on the moon and transmits detailed photographs of the lunar surface.
- 1979: Pope John Paul II arrives in his native Poland on the first visit by a pope to a communist country.
- 1987: President Reagan announced his nomination of economist Alan Greenspan to chairman of the Federal Reserve Board.
- 1997: Timothy McVeigh was convicted of murder and conspiracy in the Oklahoma City bombing.
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