NATIONAL ROTISSERIE CHICKEN DAY
455 – The Sack of Rome: Vandals enter Rome, and plunder the city for two weeks.
1098 – The First Crusade: The first Siege of Antioch ends as Crusader forces take the city. The second siege would later start on June 7.
1692 – Bridget Bishop is the first person to go to trial in the Salem witch trials in Salem, Massachusetts. Found guilty, she is hanged on June 10.
1886 – U.S. President Grover Cleveland marries Frances Folsom in the White House, becoming the only president to wed in the executive mansion.
1896 – Guglielmo Marconi applies for a patent for his newest invention, the radio.
1910 – Charles Rolls, a co-founder of Rolls-Royce Limited, becomes the first man to make a non-stop double crossing of the English Channel by plane.
1946 – Birth of the Italian Republic: In a referendum, Italians vote to turn Italy from a monarchy into a Republic. After the referendum, King Umberto II of Italy is exiled.
1953 – The coronation of Queen Elizabeth II, who is crowned Queen of the United Kingdom, Canada, Australia, New Zealand and Her Other Realms and Territories and Head of the Commonwealth, the first major international event to be televised.
1966 – Surveyor program: Surveyor 1 lands in Oceanus Procellarum on the Moon, becoming the first U.S. spacecraftto soft-land on another world.
1979 – Pope John Paul II starts his first official visit to his native Poland, becoming the first Pope to visit a Communist country.
1990 – The Lower Ohio Valley tornado outbreak spawns 66 confirmed tornadoes in Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, and Ohio, killing 12. Petersburg, Indiana, is the hardest-hit town in the outbreak, with six deaths.
1997 – In Denver, Timothy McVeigh is convicted on 15 counts of murder and conspiracy for his role in the 1995 bombing of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City. He was executed four years later.
2003 – Europe launches its first voyage to another planet, Mars. The European Space Agency's Mars Express probe launches from the Baikonur space center in Kazakhstan.
2003 – Europe launches its first voyage to another planet, Mars. The European Space Agency's Mars Express probe launches from the Baikonur space center in Kazakhstan.
2012 – The former Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak is sentenced to life imprisonment for his role in the killing of demonstrators during the 2011 Egyptian revolution.
1857 – Edward Elgar, English composer and educator, "Pomp and Circumstance" (d. 1934)
1918 – Kathryn Tucker Windham, American journalist and author (d. 2011)
1921 – Betty Freeman, American photographer and philanthropist (d. 2009)
1946 – Lasse Hallström, Swedish director, producer, and screenwriter, "The Hallström Chronicles"
BORN TODAY
1840 – Thomas Hardy, English novelist and poet (d. 1928)
1840 – Thomas Hardy, English novelist and poet (d. 1928)
1857 – Edward Elgar, English composer and educator, "Pomp and Circumstance" (d. 1934)
1918 – Kathryn Tucker Windham, American journalist and author (d. 2011)
1921 – Betty Freeman, American photographer and philanthropist (d. 2009)
1946 – Lasse Hallström, Swedish director, producer, and screenwriter, "The Hallström Chronicles"
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