June 2
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Featured: A Scheme for abolishing all Words is one of the wittiest and smartest comments on semantics. (Illustration: extreme close-up from the movie "The Big Swallow" (1901), produced and directed by James Williamson (1855-1933) |
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Art and culture
- 455 - The Vandals enter Rome, and plunder the city for two weeks.
- 1835 - P. T. Barnum and his circus begins their first tour of the United States.
- 1928 - August Strindberg's A Dream Play, staged by Antonin Artaud premieres in Paris, France.
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Births
- 1740 - Marquis de Sade, French author (d. 1814)
- 1743 - Count Alessandro di Cagliostro, Sicilian occultist (d. 1795)
- 1840 - Thomas Hardy, English writer writing in the naturalist tradition (d. 1928)
- 1959 - Lydia Lunch, American singer
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Deaths
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