On This Day:
Monday June 2, 2014 This is the 153rd day of the year, with 212 days remaining in 2014. Fact of the Day: poison ivy Global warming may make poison ivy grow bigger and more potent. Around 70-80% of people are allergic to urushiol, the oily substance found in poison ivy that causes the itchy rash. You can get a poison ivy rash by touching a poison ivy plant, touching a pet with sap on its fur, being near burning poison ivy plants, or by touching clothes or garden tools that touched poison ivy. If you come in contact with poison ivy, you have only about ten minutes to wash with soap and water before the urushiol binds with your skin and starts a reaction. You cannot get a poison ivy rash by touching someone else's oozing rash or scratching a rash elsewhere on your own body.
Holidays Feast day of St. Erasmus, St. Oda, St. Attalus, Saints Marcellinus and Peter, St. Eugenius I, pope, St. Nicholas the Pilgrim, St. Stephen of Sweden, and St. Pothinus and his Companions.
Belgium: Procession of the Golden Chariot.
Bhutan: Coronation Day.
Bulgaria: Hristo Botev Day.
Italy: Republic Day.
United Kingdom: Coronation Day of HM Queen Elizabeth II.
Events 1774 - The Quartering Act, requiring American colonists to allow British soldiers into their houses, was reenacted.
1851 - Maine became the first state to enact a law prohibiting alcohol.
1865 - Confederate General Edmund Kirby Smith, commander of Confederate forces west of the Mississippi, signed the surrender terms offered by Union negotiators, marking the end of the Civil War.
1896 - Great Britain granted Guglielmo Marconi the first wireless radio patent.
1924 - Congress granted citizenship to all Native Americans born in the United States.
1953 - Queen Elizabeth II of Britain was crowned in Westminster Abbey, 16 months after the death of her father, King George VI.
1966 - The U.S. space probe Surveyor I landed on the Moon and began transmitting detailed photographs of the lunar surface.
1987 - President Ronald Reagan announced he was nominating economist Alan Greenspan to succeed Paul Volcker as chairman of the Federal Reserve Board.
Births 1740 - Marquis de Sade, French nobleman and writer.
1840 - Thomas Hardy, English poet and novelist.
1890 - Hedda Hopper (Elda Furry), American gossip columnist, radio commentator, actress.
1904 - Johnny Weissmuller, American Olympic gold medalist swimmer, actor.
1941 - Charlie Watts, English musician.
1943 - Ilaiyaraaja (born Gnanadesikan), Indian film composer, singer, and lyricist.
1948 - Jerry Mathers, American actor.
1955 - Dana Carvey, American actor and comedian.
1960 - Kyle Petty, American race car driver.
1980 - Fabrizio Moretti, Brazilian rock musician.
Deaths 1990 - Rex Harrison, British actor.
2007 - Chinese Vice Premier Huang Ju.
2008 - Bo Diddley (born Otha Ellas Bates), an influential American rock and roll singer, songwriter, and guitarist.
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