History for June 2

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Marquis de Sade 1740 - French aristocrat, revolutionary and writer, Thomas Hardy 1840 - Novelist and poet of the naturalist movement, Johnny Weissmuller 1904 - Olympic swimmer, he was the sixth actor to portray Tarzan in movies


Pete Conrad (Charles "Pete" Conrad, Jr.) 1930 - American naval officer, third person to walk on the moon, Marvin Hamlisch 1944 - Composer, Jerry Mathers 1948 - Actor ("Leave it to Beaver")


1774 - The Quartering Act, which required American colonists to allow British soldiers into their houses, was reenacted.


1793 - Maximillian Robespierre initiated the "Reign of Terror". It was an effort to purge those suspected of treason against the French Republic.


1883 - The first baseball game under electric lights was played in Fort Wayne, Indiana.


1897 - Mark Twain, at age 61, was quoted by the New York Journal as saying "the report of my death was an exaggeration." He was responding to the rumors that he had died.


1953 - Elizabeth was crowned queen of England at Westminster Abbey.


1954 - U.S. Senator Joseph McCarthy charged that there were communists working in the CIA and atomic weapons plants.


1995 - Captain Scott F. O'Grady's U.S. Air Force F-16C was shot down by Bosnian Serbs. He was rescued six days later.


1998 - Voters in California passed Proposition 227. The act abolished the state's 30-year-old bilingual education program by requiring that all children be taught in English.