This Day in History - June 2
| Posted By: jwilkes
1731 - Martha Washington, the first of American First Ladies, is born.
1774 - Parliament passes the Qaurtering Act, requiring colonists to house and feed British troops.
1835 - P.T. Barnum begins touring with his circus, the first in American history.
1886 - President Grover Cleveland is married to Frances Folsom in a ceremony at the White House, the first and only time a sitting president is married.
1924 - President Calvin Coolidge signs the Indian Citizenship Act into law, providing citizenship to any Native American born within the territorial limits of the United States.
1925 - New York Yankees first baseman Wally Pipp is given the day off, and a young Lou Gehrig takes his place in the lineup. Gehrig would play the next 2,130 consecutive games, passing away 16 years later to the day from ALS- today known as Lou Gehrig's disease.
1966 - Surveyor 1 lands on the moon, becoming the first American vessel to visit another terrestrial body.
1995 - Air Force Captain Scott O'Grady is shot down while patrolling the no-fly zone over Bosnia. He evades capture for 6 days before being rescued, inspiring the film Behind Enemy Lines.
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