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| June 2nd, 2004 | Event | Ken Jennings begins his 74-game winning streak on the syndicated game show Jeopardy!. |
| June 2nd, 2003 | Event | Europe 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, 1999 | Event | The Bhutan Broadcasting Service brings television transmissions to the Kingdom for the first time. |
| June 2nd, 1998 | Event | The CIH computer virus is discovered in Taiwan. |
| June 2nd, 1997 | Event | In 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, 1995 | Event | United States Air Force Captain Scott O Grady s F-16 is shot down over Bosnia while patrolling the NATO no-fly zone. |
| June 2nd, 1992 | Event | Denmark rejects the Maastricht Treaty by a thin margin in a national referendum. |
| June 2nd, 1990 | Event | The 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, 1984 | Event | Operation 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, 1979 | Event | Pope John Paul II visits his native Poland, becoming the first Pope to visit a Communist country. |
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