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- Former U.S. president Donald Trump (pictured) is found guilty on all 34 counts of falsifying business records.
- In Indy car racing, Josef Newgarden wins the Indianapolis 500.
- In cricket, the Kolkata Knight Riders defeat Sunrisers Hyderabad to win the Indian Premier League.
- Gitanas Nausėda is re-elected as president of Lithuania.
- A landslide in Papua New Guinea's Enga Province leaves thousands of people missing and presumed dead.
On this day[edit]
June 2: Festa della Repubblica in Italy (1946)
- 1802 – Henry Hacking killed the Aboriginal Australian resistance fighter Pemulwuy after Philip Gidley King ordered that he be brought in dead or alive.
- 1919 – First Red Scare: The anarchist followers of Luigi Galleani (pictured) set off eight bombs in eight cities across the United States.
- 1953 – Queen Elizabeth II was crowned at Westminster Abbey in London.
- 1994 – The Royal Air Force suffered a significant peacetime disaster when a Chinook helicopter crashed on the Mull of Kintyre in Scotland, killing all 29 people on board.
- 2023 – A collision between two passenger trains and a parked freight train near the city of Balasore, Odisha, in eastern India resulted in 296 deaths and more than 1,200 people injured.
- William Salmon (b. 1644)
- Gilbert Baker (b. 1951)
- Alexander Shulgin (d. 2014)
- Radoje Pajović (d. 2019)
Moissac Abbey was a Benedictine monastery in Moissac, Tarn-et-Garonne, in south-western France. A number of its medieval buildings survive, including the abbey church, which has a notable Romanesque sculpture around the entrance. This picture shows the abbey's cloisters.Photograph credit: Benh Lieu Song