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Events on June 2

• 1525 The Neckar Valley and Odenwald peasants are defeated at Königshofen in the Peasants' War by the army of the Swabian League under Georg Truchseß von Waldburg-Zeil.
• 1878 German Emperor William I is seriously wounded by a shotgun blast during an assassination attempt by Karl Eduard Nobiling.
• 1900 The merger of two clubs leads to the founding of FC 1900 Kaiserslautern, from which 1. FC Kaiserslautern later emerges following further mergers.
• 1941 On the island of Crete, German soldiers destroy the village of Kondomari and shoot at least 23 inhabitants dead.
• 1953 Queen Elizabeth II of Great Britain and Northern Ireland is crowned at Westminster Abbey in London.
• 1967 During the demonstration on 2 June 1967 in West Berlin against the Shah of Persia, student Benno Ohnesorg is shot dead by senior police officer Karl-Heinz Kurras. The name of the later-founded left-wing extremist terrorist organization 2 June Movement refers to this event.
• 1971 In the final of the European Cup Winners' Cup, Ajax Amsterdam defeats Panathinaikos Athens 2:0.
• 1980 The sale of Ernő Rubik's Rubik's Cube begins in Germany.
• 1991 With the timetable change, the German Federal Railway introduces the Intercity-Express, the ICE 1, into scheduled service for the first time.
• 1992 In a referendum, Danish voters reject the Maastricht Treaty by a narrow majority.
• 2007 In Rostock, serious disturbances break out between members of the Black Bloc and the police during a demonstration against the G8 summit in Heiligendamm.
• 2012 At the Left Party's leadership election congress in Göttingen, the delegates vote for Katja Kipping and Bernd Riexinger as the new party chairs.

Born on June 2

• 1857 Edward Elgar, British composer
• 1863 Felix Weingartner, Austrian conductor and composer
• 1920 Marcel Reich-Ranicki, German-Polish author, publicist and literary critic
• 1922 Clair Cameron Patterson, American geochemist
• 1940 Constantine II, Greek king, sailor and sports official
• 1941 Stacy Keach, American actor
• 1962 Sibylle Berg, German-Swiss writer and journalist
• 1962 Joseph Hannesschläger, German actor
• 1972 Wentworth Miller, American actor
• 1990 Oliver Baumann, German footballer

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Source of events and birthdays: German Wikipedia article „2. Juni“, licence CC BY-SA 4.0, selected, shortened and translated by Birthday Paper.

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