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June 2nd, 2004EventKen Jennings begins his 74-game winning streak on the syndicated game show Jeopardy!.
June 2nd, 2003EventEurope launches its first voyage to another planet, Mars. The European Space Agency s Mars Express probe launches from the Baikonur space centre in Kazakhstan.
June 2nd, 1999EventThe Bhutan Broadcasting Service brings television transmissions to the Kingdom for the first time.
June 2nd, 1998EventThe CIH computer virus is discovered in Taiwan.
June 2nd, 1997EventIn Denver, Colorado, Timothy McVeigh is convicted on 15 counts of murder and conspiracy for his role in the 1995 terrorist bombing of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma.
June 2nd, 1995EventUnited States Air Force Captain Scott O Grady s F-16 is shot down over Bosnia while patrolling the NATO no-fly zone.
June 2nd, 1992EventDenmark rejects the Maastricht Treaty by a thin margin in a national referendum.
June 2nd, 1990EventThe Lower Ohio Valley tornado outbreak spawns 66 confirmed tornados in Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, and Ohio, killing 12. Petersburg, Indiana is the hardest-hit town in the outbreak, with 6 deaths.
June 2nd, 1984EventOperation Bluestar, a military offensive, is launched by the Indian government at Harmandir Sahib, also known as Golden Temple, the holiest shrine for the Sikhs, in Amritsar. The operation continues until June 6 with causalities, most of them civilians, in excess of 5,000.
June 2nd, 1979EventPope John Paul II visits his native Poland, becoming the first Pope to visit a Communist country.

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