History for June 2

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Thomas Hardy 1840 - Novelist and poet of the naturalist movement

• 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.
• 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.
• 1966 - Surveyor 1, the U.S. space probe, landed on the moon and started sending photographs back to Earth of the Moon's surface. It was the first soft landing on the Moon.
• 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.
• 2003 - In the U.S., federal regulators voted to allow companies to buy more television stations and newspaper-broadcasting combinations in the same city. The previous ownership restrictions had not been altered since 1975.