Today In History

Today is Tuesday, June 2, the 154th day of 2020. There are 212 days left in the year.

TODAY’S HIGHLIGHT

› 1897: Mark Twain was quoted by the New York Journal as saying from London that “the report of my death was an exaggeration.” (Twain was responding to a report in the New York Herald that he was “grievously ill” and “possibly dying.”)

ON THIS DATE

› 1886: President Grover Cleveland, 49, married Frances Folsom, 21, in the Blue Room of the White House. (To date, Cleveland is the only president to marry in the executive mansion.)

› 1924: Congress passed, and President Calvin Coolidge signed, a measure guaranteeing full American citizenship for all Native Americans born within U.S. territorial limits.

› 1953: The coronation of Queen Elizabeth II took place in London’s Westminster Abbey, 16 months after the death of her father, King George VI.

› 1966: U.S. space probe Surveyor 1 landed on the moon and began transmitting detailed photographs of the lunar surface.

› 1979: Pope John Paul II arrived in his native Poland on the first visit by a pope to a Communist country.

TODAY’S BIRTHDAYS

Actress-singer Sally Kellerman is 83. Actor Ron Ely is 82. Filmmaker and movie historian Kevin Brownlow is 82. Actor Stacy Keach is 79. Rock musician Charlie Watts is 79. NHL Commissioner Gary Bettman is 68. Comedian Dana Carvey is 65. Actor Gary Grimes is 65. Pop musician Michael Steele is 65. Rock singer Tony Hadley (Spandau Ballet) is 60. Actor Liam Cunningham is 59. Actor Navid Negahban is 56. Singer Merril Bainbridge is 52. TV personality-producer Andy Cohen (“The Real Housewives” TV franchise) is 52. Rapper B-Real (Cypress Hill) is

50. Actress Paula Cale is

50. Rock musician Tim Rice-Oxley (Keane) is

44. Actor Zachary Quinto is 43. Actor Dominic Cooper is 42. Actor Deon Richmond is 42. Actress Morena Baccarin is 41. Rhythm and blues singer Irish Grinstead (702) is

40. Country singer Dan Cahoon (Marshall Dyllon) is 37. Singer-songwriter ZZ Ward is 34. Rapper/actress Awkwafina is 32. Actress Brittany Curran is 30. Actor Sterling Beaumon is 25.