Today is Thursday, June 2, the 153rd day of 2011. There are 212 days left in the year.
Today’s Highlight:
On June 2, 1886, President Grover Cleveland, 49, married Frances Folsom, who at 21 became America’s youngest first lady, in the Blue Room of the White House. Cleveland is the only
president to marry in the executive mansion.
On this date:
In 1851, Maine became the first state to enact a total ban on the manufacture and sale of liquor.
In 1855, rioting broke out in Portland, Maine, over rumors a stash of liquor (which would have been legal for “medicinal and mechanical purposes” under the Maine Law) was being kept inside City Hall; one man was killed when militiamen opened fire.
In 1897, Mark Twain, 61, was quoted by the New York Journal as saying from London that “the report of my death was an exaggeration.”
In 1941, baseball’s “Iron Horse,” Lou Gehrig, died in New York of a degenerative disease, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis; he was 37.
In 1953, Queen Elizabeth II of Britain was crowned in Westminster Abbey, 16 months after the death of her father, King George VI.
In 1961, during a state visit to France, President John F. Kennedy, noting the warm reception his wife had received, jocularly described himself as “the man who accompanied Jacqueline Kennedy to Paris, and I have enjoyed it.”
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