TODAY IN HISTORY

Today is Thursday, June 2, the 153rd day of 2022.

Today’s highlight in history

On June 2, 1997, Timothy McVeigh was convicted of murder and conspiracy in the 1995 bombing of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City that killed 168 people. (McVeigh was executed in June 2001.)

On this date

In 1924, Congress passed, and President Calvin Coolidge signed, a measure guaranteeing full American citizenship for all Native Americans born within U.S. territorial limits.

In 1941, baseball’s “Iron Horse,” Lou Gehrig, died in New York of a degenerative disease, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis; he was 37.

In 1953, the coronation of Queen Elizabeth II took place in London’s Westminster Abbey, 16 months after the death of her father, King George VI.

In 1966, U.S. space probe Surveyor 1 landed on the moon and began transmitting detailed photographs of the lunar surface.

In 1979, Pope John Paul II arrived in his native Poland on the first visit by a pope to a Communist country.

In 1981, the Japanese video arcade game “Donkey Kong” was released by Nintendo.

In 2011, a judge in Placerville sentenced serial sex offender Phillip Garrido to life in prison for kidnapping and raping Jaycee Dugard; Garrido’s wife, Nancy, received a decades-long sentence.

In 2016, autopsy results showed superstar musician Prince died of an accidental overdose of fentanyl, a powerful opioid painkiller.

Today’s birthdays

Actor Ron Ely is 84. Actor Stacy Keach is 81. Actor Charles Haid is 79. Singer Chubby Tavares is 78. Actor Jerry Mathers is 74. Actor Joanna Gleason is 72. Actor Dennis Haysbert is 68. Actorcomedian Dana Carvey is 67. TV personality Andy Cohen is 54. Rapper B-Real (Cypress Hill) is 52. Actor-comedian Wayne Brady is 50. Actor Wentworth Miller is 50. Actor Zachary Quinto is 45. Actor Dominic Cooper is 44. Actor Nikki Cox is 44. Actor Justin Long is 44. Actor Morena Baccarin is 43. Soccer player Abby Wambach is 42. Rapper-actor Awkwafina is 34.