June 2, 1953
The royal coronation of Queen Elizabeth II of England took place at Westminster Abbey, London, UK.
The coronation was televised for the first time.
Today is
Republic Day in Italy,
the country’s National Day.
The day commemorates the institutional referendum held by universal suffrage in 1946.
The Italian people opted for the Republic instead of a Monarchy.
June 2, 1928
Timothy Thomas Fortune, the American civil rights leader, journalist, writer, editor, and publisher, died at age 71.
Timothy Thomas Fortune was one of the most influential Black thinkers of late 19th-century America.