June 2
1863
Abolitionist and former slave James Montgomery led 300 African-American troops of the Union’s 2nd South Carolina Volunteers on a raid of plantations along the Combahee River. Meanwhile, backed by three gunboats, Harriet Tubman‘s forces set fire to the plantations and freed 750 slaves.
Harriet Tubman
1907
Second International Peace Conference opens, The Hague, Netherlands.
1924
Congress granted US citizenship (8 U.S.C. 1401) to all American Indians.
1936
General Anastasio Somoza took over as dictator of Nicaragua.
1952
The U.S. Supreme court ruled illegal President Truman’s order two months earlier for the Army to seize the nation’s steel mills in order to avert a strike.
Deanna Dee-Dee Taylor 