Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/June 2
- 455 - The Vandals plundered Rome.
- 1774 - The Quartering Act, requiring American colonists to let British soldiers into their homes, was reenacted.
- 1946 - Birth of the Italian Republic: Italy became a republic and abolished the monarchy, exiling King Umberto II.
- 1953 - Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom was crowned.
- 1966 - Surveyor 1 (pictured) landed on the Moon, becoming the first US spacecraft to soft land on another world.