5:26am Monday 2nd June 2008
2nd June
455 - The Vandals enter Rome, and plunder the city for two weeks.
1780 - The Derby horse race is held for the first time.
1953 - Coronation of Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom, the first to be televised.
1960 - Tony Hadley, English singer with Spandau Ballet is born.
1998 - The CIH computer virus is discovered in Taiwan.
2003 - Europe launches its first voyage to another planet, Mars. The European Space Agency's Mars Express probe launches from the Baikonur space centre in Kazakhstan.
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