Right now is Monday, June 2, the 153rd day of 2025. There are 212 days left within the 12 months.
Right now in historical past:
On June 2, 1953, Queen Elizabeth II was topped at age 27 at a ceremony in London’s Westminster Abbey, 16 months after the demise of her father, King George VI.
Additionally on this date:
In 1886, 49-year-old President Grover Cleveland grew to become the primary president to get married within the White Home, marriage ceremony 21-year-old Frances Folsom.
In 1924, Congress handed, and President Calvin Coolidge signed, the Indian Citizenship Act, a measure guaranteeing full American citizenship for all Native People born inside U.S. territorial limits.
In 1941, baseball’s “Iron Horse,” Lou Gehrig, died in New York of the degenerative illness amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, also referred to as ALS or Lou Gehrig’s illness; he was 37.
In 1966, U.S. area probe Surveyor 1 landed on the moon and commenced transmitting detailed images of the lunar floor.
In 1997, Timothy McVeigh was convicted of homicide by a federal jury within the 1995 bombing of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Constructing in Oklahoma Metropolis, which killed 168 individuals. (McVeigh could be sentenced to demise and was executed in 2001.)
In 1999, South Africans went to the polls of their second post-apartheid election, giving the African Nationwide Congress a decisive victory; retiring President Nelson Mandela was succeeded by Thabo Mbeki.
In 2012, ousted Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak was sentenced to life in jail after a court docket convicted him on costs of complicity within the killing of protesters throughout the 2011 rebellion that compelled him from energy (Mubarak was later acquitted and freed in March 2017; he died in February 2020).
In 2016, post-mortem outcomes revealed that musician Prince died of an unintentional overdose of fentanyl, a robust opioid painkiller.
Right now’s Birthdays:
- Actor Stacy Keach is 84.
- Filmmaker Lasse Hallström is 79.
- Actor Jerry Mathers is 77.
- Actor Joanna Gleason is 75.
- NHL Commissioner Gary Bettman is 73.
- Actor Dennis Haysbert is 71.
- Comic Dana Carvey is 70.
- TV personality-producer Andy Cohen is 57.
- Actor-comedian Wayne Brady is 53.
- Actor Wentworth Miller is 53.
- Actor Zachary Quinto is 48.
- Actor Justin Lengthy is 47.
- Actor Morena Baccarin is 46.
- Olympic soccer gold medalist Abby Wambach is 45.
- Actor-rapper Awkwafina is 37.