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On June 2nd …
1886 - Grover Cleveland became the first U.S.
president to get married in the White House.
1924 - Congress granted U.S. citizenship to all
American Indians.
1941 - Baseball great, Lou Gehrig died of Amyotrophic
Lateral Sclerosis, ALS, a rare type of paralysis now
referred to as Lou Gehrig's disease.
1946 - In Italy, a plebiscite rejected the monarchy
in favor of a republic.
1953 - Queen Elizabeth II of Britain was crowned in
Westminster Abbey.
1997 - Timothy McVeigh was found guilty of the
bombing of the federal building in Oklahoma City.
2003 - The European Space Agency launched the Mars
Express probe. Contact with the lander Beagle 2 was lost
in December.
In 1939 …
President: Franklin D Roosevelt
Vice President: John N. Garner
Population: 130,879,718
Federal spending: $9.14 billion
Consumer Price Index: 13.9
Unemployment: 17.2%
Cost of a first-class stamp: $0.03
• As World War II begins, Roosevelt submits
$1,319-million defense budget, proclaims U.S.
neutrality, and declares limited emergency.
• New York World's Fair opens. Background: exposition
• Daughters of the American Revolution refuses to
allow Marian Anderson to perform at Constitution Hall in
Washington, D.C.
• U.S. Department of Agriculture starts first food
stamp program in Rochester, N.Y. Program ends in 1943.
• Germany invades Poland; occupies Bohemia and
Moravia; renounces pact with England and concludes
10-year non-aggression pact with U.S.S.R.
•Russo-Finnish War begins; Finns to lose one-tenth of
territory in 1940 peace treaty.
•World War II begins. |
