On This Very Day
June 2nd
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- 455
Vandals led by King Gaiseric sack Rome, looting the city for 14 days View Post →
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- 1910
Pygmies discovered in Dutch New Guinea View Post →
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- 2004
Ken Jennings starts his 74-game winning streak on Jeopardy!
- 1933
FDR approves the construction of the first White House swimming pool
- 1886
President Grover Cleveland marries Frances Folsom in the White House
- 1924
President Calvin Coolidge signs the Indian Citizenship Act, granting Native Americans citizenship
- 1875
Alexander Graham Bell achieves the first sound transmission
- 1932
George W. Perry catches a world record largemouth bass in Georgia
- 1977
New Jersey legalizes casino gambling in Atlantic City
- 1862
Robert E. Lee assumes command of Confederate armies in Northern Virginia
- 1835
P. T. Barnum's circus embarks on its first US tour
- 1763
Chippewas capture Fort Michilimackinac during Pontiac's Rebellion using a lacrosse game distraction
- 1851
Maine enacts the first US alcohol prohibition law
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