June 2
Ascension Thursday/Feast of the Ascension of Jesus (Christianity)
Coronation Day (UK & Commonwealth), celebrating Queen Elizabeth II's coronation in 1953
Festa della Repubblica (commemorates the birth of the Italian Republic)
ROYAL BIRTHDAYS
Princess Desiree of Sweden, Baroness Silfverschiold {1938}
(pictured at left, on the arm of Ralf Sommerlath)
King Constantine II of Greece {1940}
Chantal, Princess of Hanover {1955} (ex-wife of Prince Ernst-August V of Hanover)
Queen consort 'Masenate Mohato Seesio of Lesotho {1976}
HISTORICAL ROYAL EVENTS
1953 The coronation of Queen Elizabeth II, who is crowned Queen of the United Kingdom, Canada, Australia, New Zealand and Her Other Realms and Territories & Head of the Commonwealth, the first major international event to be televised.
1979 Pope John Paul II's first official visit to his native Poland, becoming the first Pope to visit a Communist country.
HISTORICAL ROYAL BIRTHS
926 Emperor Murakami of Japan (d.967)
1535 Pope Leo XI (d.1605)
1835 Pope Pius X (d.1914)
1838 Grand Duchess Alexandra Petrovna of Russia, Duchess of Oldenburg (d.1900)
DEATHS
910 Richilde of Provence, Queen of Western Francia
1418 Katherine of Lancaster, Queen consort of Castile
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