By The Associated Press
                - Today is Wednesday, June 2, the 153rd day of 1999. There are 212
                  days left in the year.

                - On June 2, 1924 Congress granted U.S. citizenship to all American
                  Indians.
                - In 1851 Maine became the first state to enact a law prohibiting
                  alcohol.
                - In 1886 President Cleveland married Frances Folsom in a White House
                  ceremony.
                - In 1897, responding to rumors that he was dead, Mark Twain, 61, was
                  quoted by the New York Journal as saying from London, "The report of
                  my death was an exaggeration."
                - In 1941 baseball's "Iron Horse," Lou Gehrig, died in New York of a
                  degenerative disease, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis.
                - In 1946 the Italian monarchy was abolished in favor of a republic.
                - In 1953 Queen Elizabeth II of Britain was crowned in Westminster
                  Abbey, 16 months after the death of her father, King George VI.
                - In 1979 Pope John Paul II arrived in his native Poland on the first
                  visit by a pope to a Communist country.
                - In 1987 President Reagan announced he was nominating economist Alan
                  Greenspan to succeed Paul Volcker as chairman of the Federal Reserve
                  Board.
                - In 1997 Timothy McVeigh was convicted of murder and conspiracy in
                  the Oklahoma City bombing.

                - Ten years ago President Bush returned from a European trip, calling
                  it "a triumph of hope" for a world moving beyond the Cold War.
                - Five years ago the International Atomic Energy Agency, the U.N.
                  atomic watchdog, reported it could no longer verify the status of
                  North Korea's nuclear program, prompting the U.S. to seek economic
                  sanctions. President Clinton met at the Vatican with Pope John Paul
                  II.
                - One year ago voters in California passed Proposition 227, which
                  effectively abolished the state's 30-year-old bilingual education
                  program by requiring that all children be taught in English. Monica
                  Lewinsky hired a new defense team, Jacob Stein and Plato Cacheris,
                  replacing William H. Ginsburg as her lead attorney.

                *Happy Birthday*
                - Actor-composer Max Showalter is 82.
                - Actor Milo O'Shea is 74.
                - Actress Sally Kellerman is 62.
                - Actor Stacy Keach is 58.
                - Rock musician Charlie Watts is 58.
                - Singer William Guest (Gladys Knight & The Pips) is 58.
                - Actor Charles Haid is 56.
                - Composer Marvin Hamlisch is 55.
                - Actor Jerry Mathers is 51.
                - Actress Joanna Gleason is 49.
                - Comedian Dana Carvey is 44.
                - Actor Gary Grimes ("Summer of '42") is 44.
                - Singer Merril Bainbridge is 31.
                - Rapper B-Real (Cypress Hill) is 29.
                - Actress Nikki Cox ("Unhappily Ever After") is 21.
                - Rhythm-and-blues singer Irish Grinstead (702) is 19.