June 2

The Vandal king Gaiseric entered Rome and his forces plundered the city for two weeks, having been dissuaded by Pope Leo I from burning it.

Giuseppe Sarto, later Pope Pius X, was born in the village of Riese in the Veneto region of northern Italy.

The German Assyriologist and Sumerian grammarian Dietz Otto Edzard, long-time editor of the Reallexikon der Assyriologie, died on this day in 2004.

Surveyor 1 set down gently on the Moon's Ocean of Storms, becoming the first American spacecraft to make a soft landing on another world and return surface images.