Sunday, June 2, 1996




Children need parents, not programs. They need parents to become involved in the lives of their children, not federal dollars. So this is basically a march for big government, more welfare. -- Andrea Sheldon, Traditional Values Coalition



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  • The 50th annual Tony Awards will be presented tonight in New York City.





  • On Monday, June 3, Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat is scheduled to visit London. He will meet with Prime Minister John Major and other political leaders, and address Oxford Union students. He will visit through June 4.

  • On Tuesday, June 4, presidential primaries will be held in Alabama, Montana, New Jersey and New Mexico.

  • On Wednesday, June 5, the Mexican government and the Zapatista rebels are scheduled to resume peace talks.

  • On Thursday, June 6, the three-day International Congress of the World Society for the Protection of the Animals will begin in Copenhagen, Denmark.





  • In 1953, Queen Elizabeth II of Britain was crowned in Westminster Abbey, 16 months after the death of her father, King George VI.

  • In 1851, Maine became the first state to enact a law prohibiting alcohol.

  • In 1883, the first non-league baseball game to be played under electric lights took place, in Fort Wayne, Indiana.

  • In 1886, President Cleveland married Frances Folsom in a White House ceremony. (To date, Cleveland is the only president to marry in the executive mansion while in office.)

  • In 1924, Congress granted U.S. citizenship to all American Indians.

  • In 1941, baseball's Iron Horse, Lou Gehrig, died in New York of a degenerative disease, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis.

  • In 1946, 50 years ago, the Italian monarchy was abolished in favor of a republic.

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

  • In 1975, Vice President Nelson Rockefeller said his commission had found no widespread pattern of illegal activities at the Central Intelligence Agency.

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

  • In 1987, President Reagan announced he was nominating economist Alan Greenspan to succeed Paul Volcker as chairman of the Federal Reserve Board.





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  • Today is the 50th anniversary of Republic Day in Italy.

  • Today is Day of the Rice God in Japan.

  • Today actor Charles Haid is 53; composer Marvin Hamlisch is 52; actor Stacey Keach Jr. is 55; actor Jerry Mathers is 48; and musician Charlie Watts is 55.



Sources: Associated Press,
Chase's Calendar of Events 1996, J.P. Morgan

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