Daily Calendar for Friday, June 2, 2023
Born
- Martha Washington (U.S. First Lady) β
- Thomas Hardy (writer) β
- Helen Louise Herron Taft (U.S. First Lady) β
- Clair Cameron Patterson (geochemist) β
- Jerry Mathers (actor) β
- Dana Carvey (comedian & actor) β
- Kyle Petty (NASCAR driver) β
- Wayne Brady (comedian & actor) β
- Wentworth Miller (actor) β
Died
- Andres Segovia (guitarist) β
- Sylvester Ritter (professional wrestler known as Junkyard Dogββ) β
- Flora Lewis (journalist) β
- Bo Diddley (musician) β
- Mel Ferrer (actor & director) β
- Chris Haney (inventor of Trivial Pursuit) β
- Kathryn Joosten (actress) β
- Richard Dawson (game show host) β
Events
- In Fort Wayne, Indiana, the first baseball game was played under electric lights at nightβ
- Grover Cleveland became the first president to marry in the White Houseβ
- Congress granted citizenship to Native Americans born in the U.S.β
- Kraft’s Velveeta inventedβ
- Marinersβ Museum established in Newport News, Virginiaβ
- President FDR formally accepted the swimming pool addition to the White Houseβ
- Elizabeth II crowned queen of Englandβ
- US spacecraft Surveyor I made successful soft landing on the Moon and began to relay first close up pictures of the Moonβ
- 13-year-old Anurag Kashyap correctly spelled βappoggiaturaβ to win National Scripps Spelling Beeβ
- Actor Patrick Stewart was knighted by Queen Elizabeth II at Buckingham Palaceβ
- At the White House, Sir Paul McCartney accepted the Library of Congress Gershwin Prize for Popular Songβ
- Sukanya Roy won 84th Scripps National Spelling Bee with word cymotrichousβββ
Weather
- Parts of the Midwest were visited by 65 tornadoesβ
- Several tornadoes were sighted in northeastern Colorado as thunderstorms ripped through the area leaving golfball-size hailβ
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